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BlackBerry Curve 8520 Sim Free Smartphone - Black
 
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BlackBerry Curve 8520 Sim Free Smartphone - Black

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3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (144 customer reviews)


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Technical Details

  • 2.0 MP digital camera
  • Clear, high-resolution display
  • Supports BlackBerry App World™
  • 256 MB Flash memory
  • Wi-Fi® enabled
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 6 x 10.9 cm ; 104 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 907 g
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  • Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required.
  • Item model number: 8520
  • ASIN: B002KQLUVU
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 28 July 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (144 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 210 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Neatly fits in your hand
Typing and sending messages is easy when you have a full QWERTY keyboard

BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone — Love the possibilities

The BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone neatly fits in your hand. A full QWERTY keyboard makes typing and sending messages easy, and comfortable. The bright screen displays over 65,000 colours, providing a great viewing experience. With the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone, you’ll have all the tools you need to help make calls — and life — a whole lot easier. Have the features of a desktop phone with you when you’re between appointments or running late.

Trackpad

Access the things that are important to you quickly and easily using the new trackpad. Based on optical technology, the trackpad helps you easily scroll through the information you need, with an experience similar to the trackpad on a laptop computer. A subtle press and click allows you to select the item and get you to where you are going.

2.0 MP Camera

With a digital camera built right into your BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone, you can capture special moments no matter where they happen, and share them with friends, family and contacts in an email or picture message (MMS). Or view them right away on the large, colorful screen on the BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone. You can even upload your pictures onto photo sharing or social networking sites like Flickr™ or Facebook® right from your BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone.

Media Player

Watch your videos and listen to your music all with the excellent visual and sound quality you expect from your BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone. You can even build playlists to suit every mood.

Material Difference
Build a playlist to suit everymood

Social Networking

Facebook® for BlackBerry® smartphones, Flickr™ Photo Uploader for BlackBerry® smartphones, MySpace® for BlackBerry® smartphones.

BlackBerry® Media Sync

BlackBerry® Media Sync lets you sync your desktop iTunes® or Windows Media® Player music files with your BlackBerry® smartphone. In just a few easy steps, you can take your tunes on—the—go, wherever you go. If you are a Mac™ computer user, simply load up your BlackBerry® Desktop Software and choose the media option to sync your BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone. with your Mac computer.

Instant Messaging

Chat from just about anywhere using Windows Live™ Messenger, Google Talk™, Yahoo! ® Messenger, AOL® Instant Messenger™ or ICQ® apps built specifically for BlackBerry® smartphones.

BlackBerry® Maps and GPS

Know where you’re going with maps, directions to local businesses and turn—by—turn routes. The BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone comes with BlackBerry® Maps built in

Know where you’re going
Turn—by—turn routes are available with BlackBerry® Maps.

Enhanced Web Mail

Whether you use AOL® Mail, Gmail®, Windows Live™ or Yahoo! ® Mail, you can enjoy on—the—go access to your favorite supported web mail.

Dedicated Media Keys

Stay in control of your music easily with dedicated media keys on the top of your BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone. Listen to music while you’re on—the—go and easily skip to the next tune, pause a song or play your favorite song over and over again. You can even mute a call by using the easy—to—access mute button on top of the BlackBerry® smartphone without missing a beat.

BlackBerry App World

Personalise your BlackBerry® smartphone with apps from BlackBerry® App World™ storefront and discover how to put more of your life on your BlackBerry® smartphone.

Video Recording

With built—in video recording, you’ll love watching your videos on the large, colorful display the BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone has to offer.

Wi-Fi® Support

Wi-Fi® has the ability to provide fast download speeds and web browsing and can be used to provide access to BlackBerry® data services in areas with no or weak coverage. You can connect to your home wireless network or to Wi-Fi® hotspots to enjoy Wi-Fi® connectivity.

Bluetooth® enabled

The BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone is Bluetooth® —enabled, so you can keep your hands free to focus on other tasks at hand. And the BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone works with the Bluetooth® Stereo Audio profile for high—quality, wireless stereo sound.

Mobile streaming

Access videos, music or even sports and news clips from web sites built for mobile streaming.

HTML browsing

A responsive, dynamic browsing experience, to help you get the information you need, when you need it.

View attachements

You can open some of the most popular document and graphic attachments even when you’re on—the—go. That includes JPEG, Adobe® PDF, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel® and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files.

Edit Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint Files

Enjoy the flexibility of working on most Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files from just about anywhere. And you—ll enjoy many of the same features you do on your computer – copy and paste, change font sizes and colors, or even adjust bullets and numbering and more.

Box Contains

  • BlackBerry 8520 Sim-Free mobile phone
  • Battery
  • Handsfree headset
  • USB cable
  • User guide
  • PC Software CD
  • Charger


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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
235 of 242 people found the following review helpful
Colour Name:Black
i took delivery of this bb a couple of days ago, and i have to say I'm quite impressed, having owned both a pearl and bold 9000 before i pretty much knew what to expect. However i was quite surprised with the build quality an overall design which i would go as far to say as being excellent. the new track pad works well and is far better than the tracker ball, setting up the device was easy, the software included allows you to port all your emails, calenders & contacts from a previous blackberry, the software now works with macs and will sync all your itune playlists and ical events. The phone feels comfortable and light in the hand and reminds me of the palm treo 680. Having read previous reviews slating the camera and screen i have to say i think there both pretty adequate, yes its no 12 mega pixel multimedia phone but people buy blackberrys for the there faultless email delivery and now excellent social media apps. All in all if you need email, a browser, social media and occasional multimedia on the go this is a excellent choice, and i personally have no regrets purchasing this phone. well done blackberry in bringing this budget phone to the masses.
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381 of 393 people found the following review helpful
What Sim Free Means 4 Aug 2010
Colour Name:Black
To those asking Sim-Free means that the phone does NOT come with a Sim Card included and you must provide your own. It also means that you can insert almost ANY Sim Card of your choice - in other words the phone is unlocked. So you can choose whichever network you wish.
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102 of 105 people found the following review helpful
Great little phone 27 Dec 2009
Colour Name:Black
I was a bit apprehensive about replacing my antiquated and very old straightforward phone with a Blackberry that seems to do everything but as I had a good contract deal I thought it was worth a go. I have spent several days working out how it works and reading up on it which I think is well worth doing if you want to take advantage of all the features this phone has to offer. Having done the homework I can honestly say that I find it very straightforward to use (although initially I couldn't make head or tail of it). I have set up e mail and Wi Fi with no problem at all (the phone gave the necessary prompts and it worked first time). Setting up instant messenger was a little harder as I tried to do it by connecting and downloading the instant messenger software via the PC without realising I needed to install the software and drivers for the blackberry on the PC first. Having done that I still couldn't install Windows live (because both computers in my house "said no" but I managed to install the windows live software with no problem at all by following the prompts on the phone and downloading via the browser on the blackberry........instant messenger on Windows live is working a treat on the Blackberry now. The internet connection is very good using the Wi Fi connection at home and the GPRS outside is slower but adequate. I find it a little difficult to read the web pages though as the screen is small and although you can zoom in it isn't as good as using a PC.....but OK if you have no other option. The biggest disappointment with this phone is the quality of the camera. It takes adequate pictures in daylight but as it doesn't have a flash it isn't very good at taking pictures or videos indoors without adequate light and when the photos are transferred to the PC the poor quality it highlighted especially compared to the photos my digicamera takes, with hindsight I would have considered a phone with a better camera however as I wanted a phone that had E mail and internet features together with a querky keyboard this phone fits the bill perfectly. The keyboard although small isn't a problem (once you have worked out how to use the shortcuts) and I can type away pretty quickly on it now. The four star rating reflects the poor quality of the camera (don't buy this phone if a good camera is essential) other than that I can totally recommend it for all its other features.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Cool features, but incredibly frustrating to maintain
At first, it was tricky to navigate around the phone, the phone barely lasted 12 hours despite charging it fully, when I upgraded to OS 5, it was more user friendly, however after... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Mr. A. Uddin
NOHERE AS DESCRIBED IN ADVERTISMENT!!!
I purchased this item for my 13 year old son... He was thrilled just to be getting a "Blackberry". To say the phone had a few "MINOR" scratches on it is the understatement of the... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Miche
The Worst Phone Ever...
OK first let me get started with this pile of rubbish they call a 'smartphone' more like a reallystupidphone it is probably one of the worst phones ever... Read more
Published 10 days ago by Aishling Morgan
phone Ok - rest rubbish
This works fine as a phone but is so slow and flddly to use that is is useless for the internet - even for emails. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Thea
Excellent All Round Performance
I have owned this device for a week now and am delighted with it.
Naturally it is not the same spec as an iphone or Galaxy Note, so this review is very much written with the... Read more
Published 15 days ago by guv999
Terrible phone.
This phone is really bad. The only good thing about it, is the BBM (blackberry messenger) but that can be really annoying at times, and I stopped using it after 2 weeks. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Speedy26
Good but over hyped
Like a lot of modern technology this Blackberry is over hyped and rarely does what they say it is going to. Although the list of things it does are good it is fiddly. Read more
Published 27 days ago by ChainsawKiller
What a hateful little piece of misery, designed by Satan.
I was given this phone by my employer and it's one of the least productive pieces of tech I've ever owned.

It's a phone, right? Well, it performs that function badly. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Simon Taylor
Great product at a great price
The product features are just perfect and very user friendly. At this price, a fantastic opportunity to get your hands on a Blackberry
Published 1 month ago by bsharp
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I purchased this product nearly one year and now it has a fault. Four other friends of mine also have the same fault and if you google the fault you will see hundreds of other... Read more
Published 1 month ago by dh1
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