RIM just announced three new BlackBerry handsets — BB Curve 9350, 9360 & 9370 — with the BlackBerry Curve 9360 being the GSM variant.
Here are the confirmed specs of the BB Curve 9360 so far:
BlackBerry Curve 9360
2.44″ display @ 480×360 pixel
800MHz processor
512MB of RAM
up to 32GB microSD
3G/HSDPA
WiFi 802.11 b/g
5MP camera
GPS w/ aGPS support
NFC
BlackBerry OS 7.0
*Specs isn’t complete but we’ll update once we get more info.
This handset looks like the refresh of the BB Curve 3G 9300 but at 10.9mm thick, it’s much thinner than the previous handset. Expected shipment date is this September.
it’s difficult to comprehend that the first one to introduce the qwerty keypad is the one lagging in the smartphone competition with qwerty keypad. RIM used to differentiate itself from the others by introducing wide body and with qwerty kedpad smartphones. RIM now lags behind the copycats and probably due to self infilcting mistakes. It’s easy for the others to copy its models and the question of whether it has patents for the qwerty keypad is a big question. It also becomes complacent in developing its phones with the new wave of competitors have models with attractive designs and features. It’s not yet too late for RIM but they have to hurry or else it may suffer the same fate with HP. Frontrunner last year and to almost down and out just a month ago…