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RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Curve 8520 : Boy Genius Report

And yet another oft-leaked BlackBerry has become official as Research In Motion has finally announced the BlackBerry Curve 8520. Heading to T-Mobile USA and Vodafone UK in August, the BlackBerry 8520 is RIM’s latest attempt at luring in the average consumer to its line of smartphones with a very budget friendly price. In the UK, Vodafone UK subscribers should be able to get the 8520 at no charge provided they take on a contract with a monthly tariff of £25 or more (considerably cheaper than the average BlackBerry plan) while in the USA T-Mobile clients will have to wait a bit longer to find out just how much it is that they’ll be asked to pay. Since we’re sure that you’re all more than familiar with the specs of the 8520 by now, let’s just focus on one thing that that’s super cool about the 8520 — it’s compatible with OS X straight out of the box. Does this mean that the Mac version of Desktop Manager will debut before its scheduled September release? It certainly looks as if this is the case.

[TheSultan]

Definitely interested to see more of that trackpad!

[nikolous]

has anyone else noticed they noted "out of the box mac compatibility" as one of the features? the DM for mac is to be released in September so this functionality can't be correct unless the release the phone a month late or the DM a month early, right?

[ARSC]

yes want to see the trackpad how it works.

[plyallstar]

Rim is releasing a lot of new bb devices.

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[redwanhuq]

I hope this mini-trackpad experiment aka the 8520 goes well. That way future "real BBs" can benefit from a better navigating method.