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BlackBerry Curve 8320

Overview

Featuring a metallic finish, clean lines and soft edges, the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8320 smartphone is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry® smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard.

It’s packed with incredible features*, including a camera, media player, Wi-Fi® capabilities, expandable memory, Voice Dialling, BlackBerry® Maps and trackball navigation. Plus, you get all the core functionality you’ve come to expect in a BlackBerry smartphone—email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality.

The BlackBerry Curve—it’s your connection to everything that matters.

*Check with your service provider for supported services and features. Not all BlackBerry plans support Wi-Fi access to BlackBerry services.

 

Features Available*

The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone has all the features you need *:

Stay in Touch

  • Wireless email: Send, receive, forward and reply to messages, and view attachments in popular file formats
  • Advanced phone features: Speakerphone and voice dialling, user-definable convenience keys and dedicated Send, End and Mute keys
  • Instant Messaging1: Connect with your IM contacts using popular applications like Yahoo!® Messenger and Google Talk™
  • SMS and MMS*: Send text messages and images in an instant

Enjoy Life

  • Multimedia Player: Listen to your favorite songs and watch video clips*,1
  • Camera: Capture the moment in perfect clarity with 2.0MP, built-in zoom and flash
  • 3.5mm stereo headset capable

Find the Info You Need

  • Browser: Navigate and browse websites with a roll and click of the trackball
  • Organiser: Synch and store your calendar data, address book and more
  • Corporate data access*: Access your vital corporate databases and applications from anywhere
  • BlackBerry® Maps: Get directions and view maps while on the road

Maximize Convenience

  • Wi-Fi® support so you can connect to virtually any Wi-Fi network3
  • Tethered modem capability: Use your smartphone as a wireless modem for your laptop or PC*
  • 64 MB of built-in memory and an expandable microSD memory slot1,2
  • Bluetooth® capability for hands-free dialogue
  • Full QWERTY keyboard layout for fast text and email composition
  • High-resolution, light-sensing screen
  • Rated for hearing aids (PDF): M3, T3

Enterprise friendly

The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone works with your organisation’s BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution to provide corporate-strength functionality, including enhanced security features and easier access to company information.

The BlackBerry 8320 smartphone also gives you Wi-Fi access**, which means that if your organization has deployed the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution, you can securely access all your corporate data over Wi-Fi networks, onsite or off. Your BlackBerry services will deliver the same functionality as when you’re connected to the mobile network.

Unlike traditional mobile phones, the BlackBerry Curve smartphone can be centrally managed and supported by IT departments. Remote address book look-up, single mailbox integration and push delivery of data from corporate applications are just a few of the features available.

*Check with service provider for availability, roaming arrangements and service plans. Certain features outlined herein require a minimum version of BlackBerry® software.

1When you subscribe for, acquire, or use third party products and services with RIM products or services you accept that: 1. It is your sole responsibility to (a) ensure that your airtime service provider will support all of their features; (b) identify and acquire all required intellectual property and other licences prior to installation or use and to comply with the terms of such licences; 2. RIM provides such products and services on an “AS IS” basis with no express or implied conditions, endorsements, guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind, and assumes no liability whatsoever with respect to them.

2The BlackBerry Curve smartphone accepts microSD cards; the amount of storage is determined by card capacity. May be sold separately.

3Check with service provider for supported services and features. Not all BlackBerry plans support Wi-Fi access to BlackBerry services


 

Getting Started

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Resources

Setting up your smartphone

Whether you’re using BlackBerry® Enterprise Server or BlackBerry® Internet Service, setting up your BlackBerry smartphone is simple and can be done completely over-the-air.

Not sure whether to set up your smartphone for BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Internet Service? Follow these guidelines:

BlackBerry Internet Service

Use this option if one or more of the following apply:

  • You purchased your smartphone in a store
  • You want to set up a new email account for use with your smartphone
  • You want to send and receive email messages on your smartphone from one or more existing email accounts

BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Use this option if one or more of the following apply:

  • You want to receive messages from your corporate Microsoft® Outlook®, IBM® Lotus® Notes® or Novell® GroupWise® email account
  • A system administrator is managing BlackBerry Enterprise Server within your company
  • A system administrator has confirmed that you are permitted to use the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  • You subscribe to a wireless service that supports account setup using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server

For instructions on setting up your email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Internet Service, please refer to the Getting Started Guide. Or take a look at additional email setup instructions for BlackBerry Internet Service.

Before setting up your email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you will need to contact your IT department to request:

  • That an account be set up for you on your organization’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  • Your enterprise activation password

 

 

Purchasing

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Specifications

Features Available

  • Wireless Email
  • Organizer
  • Wireless Internet
  • Phone
  • Camera
  • Media player
  • Corporate Data Access 1
  • SMS
  • MMS

Size and Weight

  • 107mm (Length)
  • 60mm (Width)
  • 15.5mm (Depth)
  • 111g (Weight)

Data Input/Navigation

  • Trackball
  • Keyboard backlighting

Voice Input/Output

  • 3.5mm stereo headset capable
  • Integrated earpiece/ microphone
  • Built-in Speakerphone
  • Bluetooth v2.0; mono/stereo headset, hands-free and serial port profile supported (Bluetooth® technology)

Display

  • Font size (user selectable)
  • Color display
  • Backlighting
  • Light sensing screen

Notification

  • Polyphonic ring tones
  • MP3 ring tones
  • Vibrate Mode
  • LED indicator

Approximate Battery Life

  • Up to 408 hours or 17 days (Standby Time)
  • Up to 240 minutes or 4 hours (Talk Time)

Memory

  • Expandable memory – support for microSD card
  • 64 MB (Flash Memory)

Modem

  • RIM® wireless modem

Email Integrations

  • Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange
  • Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino
  • Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise
  • Integrates with an existing enterprise email account
  • Integrates with existing personal email account
  • Integrates with new device account

Device Security

  • Password Protection and Keyboard Lock
  • Support for Triple DES or AES Encryption when Integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server 2
  • Optional Support for S/MIME

Wireless Network

  • Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g
  • Europe/Asia Pacific: 1800MHz GSM/GPRS networks
  • Europe/Asia Pacific: 900MHz GSM/GPRS networks
  • EDGE networks

1  Check with service provider for availability, roaming arrangements and service plans. Certain features outlined herein require a minimum version of BlackBerry software.
2  Support for Triple DES encryption is available for BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino only.

 

Support

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