Best BlackBerry Curve 8520 Deals

Blackberry Curve 8520 - Choose Your Favorite Color That Brings a Magnificent Smartphone Along

• Black, pink, silver, violet, blue and white. All these are the colors that deliver the great characteristics of the Blackberry Curve 8520. Today, any aspirant can find this device with both carriers, Sprint and Verizon. The great thing about this device is the fact that it packs some amazing characteristics into a truly pocketable unit. This Smartphone belongs to the latest generation of compact Blackberry Smartphone line, which comes with full-QWERTY messaging.
  
  Similar in shape to the original series, 8300, it also introduces some advanced features and a truly modern and stylish look. Its keyboard offers a great feel, although in some colors the keys can be quite difficult to read especially in dimly lit environments. Blackberry Curve 8520 comes with optical trackpad controller that replaces the regular Blackberry trackballs. This new technology delivers a great device that works pretty well, although it is quite tough to control.
  
  If compared to other Blackberry models, any user can easily observe that the top of this device offers a whole new appearance, which comes without the lock button. Moreover, the Blackberry Curve 8520 provides dedicated track music controls, which silently sit next to the play/pause button. As well, the case includes a data connector, micro-USB and 3.5mm headphone ports.
  
  

  Blackberry Curve 8520 Specifications and Features

  
  The case of the BB Curve 8520 is pretty expensive and covers a really good quality device. The features of the magnificent Blackberry Curve 8520 are as it follows: 
  
  Memory
  • Unlimited fields and entries
  • Photocall
  • Unlimited call records
  • Internal memory of 256MB
  • MicroSD card slot for memory extension up to 32GB
  
  Sound and Display
  • MP3 ringtones, polyphonic, vibration
  • Loudspeaker
  • 3.5mm high quality jack
  • Dedicated music keys
  • Display type TFT of 2.46 inches
  • 320 x 240 pixels, 65k colors
  • Optical touch-sensitive trackpad
  • QWERTY keyboard
  
  Camera
  • 2 megapixels
  • Video, QVGA
  • 1600 x 1200 pixels
  
  Additional Features
  • OS: Blackberry
  • CPU: 512 MHz
  • Browser: HTML
  • Messaging: IM, Email, MMS, SMS
  
  PROS
  
  The display is crisp and bright enough for most of its users, thing that ensures a great usability. The device provides a good overall quality of all its functions. However, the potential uses should know that it is not a really deal-breaker.
  
  CONS
  
  The battery cover is quite loose, making noise especially when in use. As well, most purchasers are not really impressed with the display, which sometimes lets users down while browsing the web. However, these disadvantages are quite minor and for this reason, many people prefer this device to other similar products.
  
  CONCLUSION
  
  The great thing about this device is that it delivers a very affordable Smartphone, which comes with some really great capabilities. The faults that we are able to observe do not highlight that Blackberry actually drops the quality standards but the fact that this was the only way to deliver a really affordable Smartphone. This way, Research in Motion was actually capable to keep the costs and implicit, the price really down. However, those users who are looking for a basic device should know that the Blackberry Curve 8520 is just great.
  
  

  Our Rating on the Blackberry Curve 8520

  
  3 out of 5
  
  
  by Rushikesh Kamreja