Trigcom AS and RIM Announce the New BlackBerry Curve 8520 for Customers in Norway
Approachable New Smartphone Offers Email, Messaging, Social Networking, Music and Entertainment for People on the Go.
Oslo, Norway and Waterloo, Canada - Trigcom AS and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone for customers in Norway. The handset, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, is now available from Trigcom AS.
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that will come to the Norweigan market in black and frost blue. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and easy access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a world phone, and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled to give customers faster Web browsing and extended data coverage.
In addition to providing customers with the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It introduces an innovative touch-sensitive optical trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.
“Trigcom is proud to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Norway. It is a powerful and user-friendly smartphone that will appeal to a wide range of both retail and business customers. The dedicated multimedia keys, trackpad and easy media sharing are especially attractive features to our customers,” says Jan Hatlebrekke, Purchasing Manager at Trigcom.
“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 in Norway to make the switch. It is a great new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series and delivers all the great messaging, social networking and multimedia features that customers have come to love about BlackBerry smartphones,” said Carlo Chiarello, vice president, product management, Research In Motion.
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:
•Easy-to-use full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
•256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
•Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth® (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
•2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
•Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone*
•BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
•Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available; a 2GB card is included
•Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
•Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone from Trigcom AS is available now. http://www.trigcom.no.To learn more about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone visit: www.trigcom.no/8520
* Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.
Note for editors: Additional information, including product images and video, is available at www.rim.mediaseed.tv.
About Trigcom
Trigcom is a BlackBerry service provider in Norway. Trigcom launched its first commercial BlackBerry smartphone in Norway in October 2006, and has been providing a first class BlackBerry service and support experience to the Norwegian market ever since. Trigcom consistently launches the latest BlackBerry models at competitive prices to the Norwegian market (www.trigcom.no/history), and also offers a web shopping experience (www.trigcom.no/shop) Trigcom’s Business Center is located near Oslo’s City Hall and is open during standard business hours for all customer questions or issues. Trigcom has more than 500 leading companies in its corporate portfolio and provides advanced services such as integration with back end systems and applications, securely and efficiently, with the BlackBerry wireless solution. Trigcom also collaborates with strategic corporate vendors and partners.
Visit www.trigcom.no/press for more information or contact Relations Manager Tom Bøe at +4792094854 or email tb@fogb.no.
Oslo, Norway and Waterloo, Canada - Trigcom AS and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone for customers in Norway. The handset, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, is now available from Trigcom AS.
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that will come to the Norweigan market in black and frost blue. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and easy access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a world phone, and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled to give customers faster Web browsing and extended data coverage.
In addition to providing customers with the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It introduces an innovative touch-sensitive optical trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.
“Trigcom is proud to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Norway. It is a powerful and user-friendly smartphone that will appeal to a wide range of both retail and business customers. The dedicated multimedia keys, trackpad and easy media sharing are especially attractive features to our customers,” says Jan Hatlebrekke, Purchasing Manager at Trigcom.
“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 in Norway to make the switch. It is a great new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series and delivers all the great messaging, social networking and multimedia features that customers have come to love about BlackBerry smartphones,” said Carlo Chiarello, vice president, product management, Research In Motion.
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:
•Easy-to-use full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
•256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
•Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth® (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
•2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
•Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone*
•BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
•Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available; a 2GB card is included
•Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
•Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone from Trigcom AS is available now. http://www.trigcom.no.To learn more about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone visit: www.trigcom.no/8520
* Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.
Note for editors: Additional information, including product images and video, is available at www.rim.mediaseed.tv.
About Trigcom
Trigcom is a BlackBerry service provider in Norway. Trigcom launched its first commercial BlackBerry smartphone in Norway in October 2006, and has been providing a first class BlackBerry service and support experience to the Norwegian market ever since. Trigcom consistently launches the latest BlackBerry models at competitive prices to the Norwegian market (www.trigcom.no/history), and also offers a web shopping experience (www.trigcom.no/shop) Trigcom’s Business Center is located near Oslo’s City Hall and is open during standard business hours for all customer questions or issues. Trigcom has more than 500 leading companies in its corporate portfolio and provides advanced services such as integration with back end systems and applications, securely and efficiently, with the BlackBerry wireless solution. Trigcom also collaborates with strategic corporate vendors and partners.
Visit www.trigcom.no/press for more information or contact Relations Manager Tom Bøe at +4792094854 or email tb@fogb.no.
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