May 22nd, 2007
AT&T to release BlackBerry Curve 8300 this Friday
BoyGenius says that “all signs point” to a BlackBerry Curve 8300 release by AT&T this Friday.
Features, at least according to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion:
- Phone, email, text messaging (SMS and MMS), browser, instant messaging and organizer applications in a single smartphone
- 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash
- Next-generation media player with audio and video playback in a variety of formats
- High capacity battery
- Preloaded with BlackBerry Maps application
- Trackball navigation system
- Dynamic, highly responsive experience when viewing attachments and graphics, browsing the web and running applications
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Bluetooth headset, hands-free and serial port profiles supported
- High resolution LCD screen with light sensing technology
- Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones
- 64 MB of memory and expandable memory via microSD card
- Quad-band support for 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks
But you know something? Given the previous retail channel distribution difficulties AT&T predecessor Cingular Wireless had with the BlackBerry Pearl, here’s betting it will take a week or two for the Curve to be widely available at those mall outlets.
Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
