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A hands-on look at the Curve 9360, a slimline, BlackBerry 7-powered addition to RIM's non-touchscreen handset that places near-field comms and social-networking alongside business features
Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion has made a slimline addition to its Curve series of handsets, powered by its recently released BlackBerry 7 OS.
The mid-range handset, introduced on Tuesday, comes in three models with connectivity for different regions. The Curve 9360 is set for launch in the UK in September, while the 9350 and 9370 will appear in other markets within the same time frame.
The phones all have the curved mini-Qwerty keypad that marks them out from higher-end RIM handsets such as the Bold. As with earlier Curve models, they are aimed at people looking to progress from a feature phone onto their first fully-fledged smartphone, according to RIM.
"The new BlackBerry Curve smartphones... offer a significant performance upgrade with [a] mobile social experience for the millions of feature phone users in the market, as well as [for] our existing Curve customers," Mike Lazaridis, co-chief executive of RIM, said in a statement.
The 9360 handset is RIM's slimmest smartphone to date, measuring just 11mm thick. It comes with a 2.4-inch non-touch display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and HSPA connectivity, GPS and a 800MHz processor. It has 512MB of storage on board, with support for microSD cards up to 32GB.
Caption by: Ben Woods
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