MTN and Research In Motion (RIM) have launched the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone in South Africa.
With its sleek new twist on a classic style, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone to date and comes in an elegant black finish with chrome frame. Its highly refined design offers an incredibly comfortable in-hand feel.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone has an expansive feature set that keeps users easily connected with their office, friends and family. In addition to exceptional phone, email, messaging, organiser, web browser and multimedia applications, the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 also features built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a next generation processor (512Mhz) and a dazzling hi-resolution display, enabling customers to remain connected, productive and entertained while on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone features a full-QWERTY keyboard and intuitive trackball that allow exceptionally easy typing and navigation. Its full-featured media player supports media streaming and can play all your favourite songs and videos. With its new 3.2 megapixel camera, including auto focus, image stabilisation, digital zoom and flash, you can take sharp, print-quality pictures to capture the moment and immediately send them to a friend or post them on the Internet. The microSD/SDHC expandable memory card slot supports up to 16GB per card, giving users plenty of storage that is easily interchangeable.
"With its wide range of powerful features and refined design, the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone supports the professional and personal mobile communication needs of MTN subscribers who want a phone that can keep up with an active mobile lifestyle," says Pieter Verkade - MTN South African Chief Marketing Officer.
"The BlackBerry Curve 8900 lets you keep your finger on the pulse of what's important to you. It keeps you connected with the office, the Internet, your family and friends - all on a beautifully designed phone that looks and feels great," said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at RIM.
At approximately 110 grams and 109 x 60 x 13.5 millimeters, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 feels comfortable for either one-handed or two-handed use. Its large, striking 2.4 inch HVGA+ display (480x360 resolution) projects vivid color and makes images and text easy to view. It also provides flexible connectivity with built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) support and can help people find their way with its GPS capabilities.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is a quad-band smartphone, providing global connectivity for fast data access and web browsing. The smartphone can be used with both BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
BlackBerry Internet Service is designed for small businesses and individuals. It allows customers to access up to 10 supported corporate and personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail) from a single device.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise and uses advanced encryption and IT policy controls to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.
