Blackberry 8520 Curve

From $275 To $399 incl. S&H
  • Rated 3.5 out of 5
Blackberry 8520 Curve
The Blackberry 8520 Curve Cell Phone is a pretty good pick for anyone in the market looking for a change. This Smartphone cell phone, weighing 106g, is as good in the looks department as it is in its performance. The Blackberry 8520 Curve Cell Phone is a EDGE phone allowing you a considerable amount of flexibility while moving from one country to anothe ... View more
  • Networks:EDGE
  • Connectivity:Wifi
  • Camera resolution:2Megapixel
  • Integrated memory size:256 MB
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  • 8.4 out of 10
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    Customer Reviews

  • Easy to use, good value for money, qwerty keyboard, design, bbm
  • Poor camera
  • Design: 6.7
  • Features: 6.3
  • Performance: 6.1
  • Sound: 6.5
  • Durability: 7.2
  • Reliability: 5.1
  • Looks: 6.9
  • Display: 6.4
    • 4 out of 10
    • October 27, 2010

    A decent looking blackberry but has many points to compromise for: 1. Battery -> very weak 2. Camera is surely disappointing. No support for video calls 3. You can only drop it once. Very weak built quality. 4.

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  • 7.5 out of 10
  • 3 extracts of expert reviews

    Expert Reviews

    • recombu.com

      6 out of 10

    Short extract: RIM has taken note of the consumer demand for inexpensive messaging phones and delivered several devices that bridge business and consumer worlds. Its latest budget offering is the BlackBerry Curve 8520 that boasts social network access and a full Qwerty keypad.

    Conclusion: This isn't a high-end phone and it suffers in certain areas but it does deliver when it comes to email, instant messaging and basic social networking. We were impressed by the music offering and we like that it's not as expensive as other BlackBerries but the lack of 3G is a bit of a turn off.

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    • Brighthand

      8 out of 10

    Short extract: The BlackBerry Curve 8520 shows that the future of the BlackBerry is here... kind of. By far the stand-out feature of the Curve 8520 is its new optical trackpad, which replaces the trackball for navigation -- and it rocks.

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    • CNET

      7.5 out of 10

    Conclusion: We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; GPRS/EDGE) RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520 in San Francisco using T-Mobile service and call quality was quite good. We didn't notice any type of voice distortion or background noise during calls and had no problem using an airline's voice automated system.

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Technical Details

General

Dimensions & Weight

  • Width 60 mm
  • Depth 13.9 mm
  • Height 109 mm
  • Weight 106g

Cellular

Telephone Features

  • Messaging protocols SMS, MMS, Email
  • Ringtone type MP3
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Memory / Storage

  • Integrated memory size 256 MB
  • Supported memory media Micro SD

Digital Camera

  • Camera type Digital still camera
  • Camera resolution 2Megapixel
  • Still image resolution 1632 x 1224
  • Still image format JPEG
  • Digital zoom 5x
  • Video resolution 176 x 144
  • Video format 3GPP

Display

  • Display resolution 320 x 240
  • Number of colours 18 bit (262144 colours)

Additional Features

Battery

  • Talk time 270 mins
  • Standby time 400hours

Other

  • Category Mobile Phone Handset
  • Display type Colour screen
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