Today, July 9, 2008 Reliance Communication launched the BlackBerry Curve 8330 Smartphone in Mumbai, India. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry® handset and comes with RIM's intuitive trackball navigation system. The Curve 8330 features a 2 megapixel camera, advanced multimedia capabilities and premium phone features along with the sophisticated BlackBerry platform supporting 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 25,990 and currently available at more than 500 stores across top 20 towns.
The President, RCOM Applications Solutions Group, Mahesh Prasad, said that "Reliance Communications is delighted to extend the choice of BlackBerry smartphones to its customers." 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. 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.
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.
About Reliance Communications:
Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Rated among "Asia's Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies", Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of over 48 million including over 1.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 1,850 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 250 global carriers. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 165,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.