HYBRID SNICKS MAGAZINE

While many of our readers think the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is about as boring as it gets, truth be told it’s infinitely more functional than most devices in its (Walmart or Amazon) price range and it invites a whole new demo over to Berry. One of our RIM ninjas hit us up this morning to let us know that within the next month it should be available for purchase in France from Bouygues Telecom. A hard price and street date have yet to be set, but we can’t imagine that it will cost all that much, if anything at all, considering the $0.01 – $48.88 pricing we have here in the states. Vive la Curve.

via: boygeniusreport

Operating system

• Palm® webOS™

Network specs|

• 3G EVDO Rev A

Display

• 3.1-inch touch screen
• 24-bit color
• 320×480 resolution
• HVGA display

Keyboard

• Physical QWERTY keyboard

Email

• Microsoft Outlook® email with Microsoft® Direct Push Technology
• POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc)

Messaging

• Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS

GPS

• Built-in GPS

Digital camera

• 3 megapixel camera
• LED flash
• extended depth of field

Sensors

• Ambient light
• accelerometer
• proximity

Media formats supported

• Audio Formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
• Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264
• Image Formats: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP

Wireless connectivity

• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication
• Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support

Memory

• 8GB of user storage (~7.4GB user available)
• USB mass storage support

Phone as laptop modem

• Bluetooth tethering

Connector

• MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

Headphone jack

• 3.5mm stereo

Palm® Touchstone™
charging dock

• Compatible

Dimensions

• Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches)
• Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches)
• Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)
• Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces)