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The first name the BlackBerry Curve 8520 was baptized with was BlackBerry Gemini, but now, that the handset has just become official, the name changed. There were too many months of imprecise information, of leaked pictures and of lists of features that we couldn’t take for granted.

I don’t know which details you took seriously, but what you should have taken is the fact that the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the first to have been designed by Research in Motion and to come with an optical trackpad, which replaced the trackball.



The features of the new handset include “a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard”, Wi-Fi for fast Web browsing and for Wi-Fi calling, the touch-sensitive optical trackpad, a 2 megapixel digital camera equipped with zoom and video recording capabilities, voice activated dialing, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, media player (music, pictures and videos), dedicated media keys, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, the BlackBerry Media Sync, 256MB flash memory and a 512Mhz processor, microSDHC memory card support for expandable memory of no more than 16GB (1GB card is included in the package).



“More and more cell phone users are choosing to upgrade to a smartphone and the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will undoubtedly convince many more people to make the switch. It delivers all the great messaging, social networking and multimedia features that have made BlackBerry the top-selling smartphone brand in the United States”, said the Vice President, Product Management, Research in Motion, Carlo Chiarello. In addition, he said that “T-Mobile customers are going to love how easy it is to keep in touch on Facebook and MySpace and the full-QWERTY keyboard is amazingly fast and comfortable for typing on the go”.

The handset is expected to start selling on August 5, via T-Mobile retail stores, Walmart stores and online.

(Source: Press release)