14 DAY TRIAL // After releasing the BlackBerry Curve 8330 in Mexico, via Iusacell, Research in Motion has announced the availability of the new smartphone for the Indian market too. The Curve 8330 is offered in India together with Reliance Communications, in its World Edition. This means it can operate on both the GSM and CDMA networks from across India.
As lots of other handsets produced by Research in Motion, BlackBerry Curve 8330 is a business-meets-multimedia handset. The 8330 comes in a fashionable silver case and its features include: a full QWERTY keyboard, trackball navigation system, advanced email and Web capabilities, Instant Messaging, organizer, a 320 x 240 pixel TFT display, media player, MMS capabilities, a 2 Megapixel camera with flash, digital zoom and video recording, Bluetooth 2.0, noise cancellation technology, voice-activated dialing, speakerphone, USB and microSD or microSDHC card support for up to 8GB.
Talking about the new RIM handset, Mahesh Prasad, President, RCOM Applications Solutions Group, said: "Reliance Communications is delighted to extend the choice of BlackBerry smartphones to its customers. We are pleased to introduce the feature-rich BlackBerry Curve 8330. This BlackBery smartphone is now available at more than 500 stores across the top 20 towns. With RIM's latest innovation, our customers will be able to enhance their mobile communications and make the most of their business and leisure time with this feature-rich smartphone."
Frenny Bawa, Vice President, India, Research In Motion, also stated: "BlackBerry smartphones are designed to provide people with an optimized mobile experience for email, phone, web browsing and a wide range of other corporate and personal applications. RIM is very pleased to be working with Reliance to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8330 in India."
Reliance offers the new RIM smartphone for a retail price of 25,990 INR (around $610 or 390 Euros).