14 DAY TRIAL // Rogers Wireless has recently added a new BlackBerry smartphone to its line-up of handsets. No, it's not the BlackBerry Bold 9000 (this one will be released in a few weeks), it's a pink BlackBerry Curve 8310. Of course, the 8310 is not actually new, but the novelty is represented by its color. Until now Rogers offered the Curve 8310 only in silver and red. Now, with the new pink color, Canadian women have a version only for themselves.
We've seen before several other BlackBerry smartphones to come in pink, but I believe this is the first time when the Curve 8310 is dressed in this color. Together with the red and silver versions of the smartphone, the pink Curve 8310 is the seventh BlackBerry to be offered by Rogers. The other models include two BlackBerry Pearls (8110 and 8120), a BlackBerry 8800 and a BlackBerry 8700r.
Aside from the pink case, the new 8310 is the same handset and it even has the same price: $199 with the signing of a contract agreement for three years, or $549 free of contract.
The features of Curve 8310 include a full QWERTY keypad, a 320 x 240 pixel display with 65K colors, built-in GPS, BlackBerry maps, HTML browser, email, Instant Messaging, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, a 3.5mm audio jack, Music player, a 2 Megapixel photo camera with flash, miniUSB, handsfree, organizer and To Do list.
While the pink 8310 is a welcomed addition to Rogers' line-up (for users who like pink, at least), most Canadians in need of a smartphone produced by RIM are probably waiting for the Bold 9000 to be released. This one will be a bit more expensive, but that's justified by the wide range of nice features packed in it.
We don't know for the moment if pink Curve 8310 smartphones are going to be offered by other carriers, from other countries, but there's no reason for this not to happen.