Reliance Communications launches the BlackBerry Curve 8330 Smartphone

Mumbai: Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group flagship Reliance Communications Ltd. (RCOM) and Research In Motion (RIM) yesterday announced the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone in India for the telecom service provider's CDMA customers.

The BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry handset and comes with RIM's intuitive trackball navigation system.

It features a 2 megapixel camera, advanced multimedia capabilities and premium phone features along with the sophisticated BlackBerry platform which supports access to email, messaging and other mobile applications. With the new BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone, users can easily stay connected to work, family and friends while on the go. The feature-rich BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone from Reliance is priced at INR 25990.

''Reliance Communications is delighted to extend the choice of BlackBerry smartphones to its customers,'' said Mahesh Prasad, president, RCOM Applications Solutions Group .''We are pleased to introduce the feature-rich BlackBerry Curve 8330. This BlackBery smartphone is now available at more than 500 stores across the top 20 towns. With RIM's latest innovation, our customers will be able to enhance their mobile communications and make the most of their business and leisure time with this feature-rich smartphone.''

''BlackBerry smartphones are designed to provide people with an optimised mobile experience for email, phone, web browsing and a wide range of other corporate and personal applications," Frenny Bawa, vice president, India, Research In Motion said.

Reliance Communications customers across India can opt for this new sleek and stylish high-speed smartphone that offers a powerful combination of communications and multimedia capabilities.

Available in an elegant silver colour, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone features: 

• CDMA connectivity 
• Access to email, phone, organizer, browser and other mobile business and leisure applications · 2 megapixel camera with flash and 5x zoom, able to take pictures that can be shared via email, MMS and instant messaging applications 
• Advanced media player and enhanced desktop media manager software allowing customers to easily manage music, pictures and video between their PC and the BlackBerry Curve 8330 
• Premium phone features including Voice Activated Dialing, speakerphone, and noise and echo cancellation technology for clearer calls 
• Bluetooth 2.0, with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits, and other Bluetooth accessories 
• Instant Messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk 
• Support on BlackBerry Internet Service, which provides users with the ability to access up to 10 supported email accounts, including most ISP email accounts, from a single device 
• Support on BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which tightly integrates with IBM Lotus

Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® and works with existing enterprise systems to enable push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data together with advanced security and IT administration.

Reliance Communications has a wide range of BlackBerry smartphones for its CDMA customers such as the BlackBerry Pearl™ 8130 and the BlackBerry 8703e. Reliance is the first Indian operator to launch the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition allowing interoperability between the high speed CDMA and ubiquitous GSM networks. BlackBerry 8830 World Edition enables Reliance customers to experience high speed Internet access as well as offers international roaming across the globe, to enhance productivity of business professionals on the move.