KPN today announced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone for customers in the Netherlands. The stylish handset, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, is now available.
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone. 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 access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a quad band 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.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is now available from KPN without a subscription at the price of €244 (VAT incl.). . To learn more about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone visit:
www.blackberry.com/curve8520 # # #
About KPN
KPN is the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in The Netherlands, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet en TV to consumers, and end-to-end telecommunications and ICT services to business customers. KPN’s subsidiary Getronics operates a global ICT services company with a market-leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market positions through E-Plus and BASE. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficiënt IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis.
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Helene Hartlief
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