The BlackBerry Curve 8520 (also known as BlackBerry Gemini) is a smartphone from the BlackBerry Curve series manufactured in Canada that was launched on August 27, 2009 and was in production until April 2012. It was BlackBerry's first entry-level device, targeted for emerging market consumers.
Description The BlackBerry Curve 8520 was a consumer-oriented smartphone and had standard features including mobile email, a calendar and instant messaging among many others.
The Curve 8520 had a new touch-sensitive optical trackpad as opposed to the trackball used on many other BlackBerry devices - this is said to improve the ease of scrolling through menus, emails, web pages and images.
This phone was capable of browsing the web with the EDGE/2G network and receive and send emails via BlackBerry's push email network.
The Curve 8520 was discontinued in April 2012, when the BlackBerry Curve 9220 was introduced as its successor.
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