$300 - $500
Amazon Marketplace | $499.99 |
Amazon | $299.99 |
J&R Music and Computer World | $319.99 |
Research in Motion apparently has decided the best way to conquer the smartphone market is to put their well-known OS into a dizzying array of different bodies. That's fine with me, because many of them turn out excellent—Flip and Storm aside. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the company's latest smartphone for T-Mobile, and the first BlackBerry to sport a trackpad. My guess: the trackpad will succeed the trackball on all future designs, because it's great. The rest of the Curve 8520 turned out pretty well, too. That's not bad for a smartphone that rings in at just $48.88 (with a two-year contract) from Walmart—although puzzlingly, it's $129 at T-Mobile's own stores.
Research In Motion Ltd
http://www.rim.com
- Price as Tested: $48.88 - $299.99 Street
- Service Provider: T-Mobile
- Operating System: BlackBerry OS
- Screen Size: 2.5 inches
- Screen Details: 320-by-240, 262K colors
- Camera: Yes
- Megapixels: 3.2 MP
- 802.11x: Yes
- Bluetooth: Yes
- Web Browser: Yes
- Network: GSM, UMTS
- Bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100, 1700
- High-Speed Data: EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA
- Processor Speed: 528 MHz