Rogers Wireless to carry BlackBerry Curve smartphone

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Rogers Wireless and RIM introduced the BlackBerry Curve smartphone. The Curve is the next gen smartphone following the Pearl. Key features on the Curve include smooth handset design and delivers the renowned BlackBerry email and messaging experience, premium phone features, intuitive trackball navigation system, 2.0 megapixel camera, fast web browsing and powerful multimedia capabilities.


The new BlackBerry Curve from Rogers features:

- A small and light design with soft curves, smooth edges, liquid
silver finish and chrome highlights. It measures 107mm x 60mm x
15.5mm and weighs approximately 111 grams.

- A 2.0 mega pixel camera with 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-
portrait mirror and full screen viewfinder. The camera can capture
images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can
be quickly shared via email, MMS, BlackBerry Messenger or Bluetooth.
Photos can also be set as a unique caller IDs or Home Screen image.

- EDGE/GPRS/GSM connectivity operating on Roger's high speed nationwide
network, with roaming in over 185 countries for voice and 100
countries for data.

- Premium phone features including noise cancellation technology to
offset background noise, Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR)
for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), dedicated 'send', 'end', and
'mute' keys, low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth (2.0)
support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits and Bluetooth
peripherals.

- A microSD expandable memory slot for up to 4 GB of additional
storage. 4GB microSD cards will soon be available for purchase on
Rogers.com.

- A built-in spell checker with user-customizable dictionary to ensure
accuracy of emails and other text entries.

- A powerful new media manager application included with the
BlackBerry Desktop Manager software. The Roxio Media Manager
for BlackBerry, which was developed with Sonic and based on the
award-winning Roxio Easy Media Creator 9, introduces a new level
of simplicity, allowing users to easily search for media files on
their computer, view and organize them, create MP3 music files from
CDs, add audio tags, create playlists and automatically copy or
convert pictures, music and videos for optimal playback on the
BlackBerry Curve.

- A 3.5mm stereo headset jack, support for Bluetooth stereo audio
profile (A2DP/AVRCP), and dedicated volume controls.

- BlackBerry Maps, which helps find addresses and provides step-by-
step directions.

- Support for polyphonic, mp3 and MIDI and RealTrax ringtunes.

- Support for instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google
Talk and Yahoo! Messenger pre-loaded.

- BlackBerry Internet Service support that allows access to up to 10
personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP
email accounts.

- BlackBerry Enterprise Server support for enterprise deployments,
enabling advanced security and IT administration within IBM
Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise
environments.
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