Verizon to launch $50 BlackBerry Curve 9310 July 12th
RIM is throwing a bone to some of its loyal American fans who don’t want to wait until next year to get a new smartphone. The company on Tuesday said that Verizon will start selling the new BlackBerry Curve 9310 on July 12th for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate on a two-year service agreement. The new device is rather weak in the specs department, featuring a 3.2-megapixel camera, a 2.44-inch display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and the BlackBerry 7.1 operating system. Even so, it’s been a long time since RIM fans in the U.S. have seen a new product announced so this will have to tide them over until BlackBerry 10 devices start dropping this coming winter.
VERIZON WIRELESS AND RIM ANNOUNCE NEW BLACKBERRY® CURVE™ 9310 SMARTPHONE
Easy-to-Use BlackBerry Smartphone with all the Tools to Stay Productive and Social
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and WATERLOO, Ontario – Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9310 smartphone, a stylish new smartphone for socially-connected customers.
The BlackBerry Curve 9310 is a slim and easy-to-use smartphone ready to help customers make the move from a basic phone to a smartphone. It includes all the core BlackBerry messaging and social-centric applications that let customers easily connect to the people and things that matter most to them. Running on BlackBerry 7.1, the Curve 9310 also features the iconic BlackBerry keyboard for quick and easy typing and a dedicated BBM™ key for instant access to RIM’s popular mobile social network.
Facebook® and Twitter™ apps allow customers to easily interact with their social network in real time, and, with the new Social Feeds 2.0 app, they can post updates to multiple social networks simultaneously and capture updates from news sources (RSS feeds), social apps and instant messaging apps, all in one consolidated view.
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