The Blackberry Curve 8520 is one of its kinds of the RIM phone family that introduces various features and hopes to bring in this change for the future Blackberry models as well. The major new feature of this phone is its optical trackpad that has changed the face of navigation on Blackberry mobiles. The optical trackpad is touch sensitive wherein just with the slight touch of your finger you can speedily scroll through pages and browse through menus. The flat trackpad as compared to the bulging trackball serves well in giving the phone a sleek and slim finish that glides easily into your pocket and avoids any dust being settled in the edges (which was the case with the track ball).
Other new features introduced in the phone are the dedicated media keys that help you control your music track list physically from your keypads in a matter of seconds. With easy access to the music keys you can sort and manage your playlist well. Also the phone weighs a mere 106 gms making it the lightest phone of the Blackberry family. The phone is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with 5X digital zoom for capturing a substantially good quality of still pictures and videos. The QWERTY keypad with 35 backlit keys provides ease in typing with their slightly tilted and protruding keys. The phone also gives you status updates of your friends connected through Facebook and Twitter. With the Wi-Fi LAN technology the phone gives you instant access to the World Wide Web and with email options that support ten different email accounts there is no dearth of the things that you can do with this phone in accordance with the internet.
This Blackberry model is a part of lucrative mobile phone deals offering a variety of deals such as contract mobile phones, free line rentals, pay as you go and SIM free deals. As a part of the contract mobile phones and free line rental deals the Blackberry Curve 8520 is offered at no extra cost. It is absolutely free in some of the best deals in town. So apart from the monthly rentals and call tariffs you do not have to pay for anything. In fact you could be entitled to anywhere from 600 -100 minutes free talk time and unlimited free text messages. If you are lucky enough you may come across deals that also offer free gifts that may range from LCD TV's, laptops, digital cameras, video gaming consoles to IPods. As far as pay as you go and SIM free deals are concerned you are offered the Blackberry Curve 8520 at highly discounted rates that range from 113.95 to 229.