Digicel launches new BlackBerry Curve smartphone

Digicel launched the BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone for customers across the Caribbean and Central America yesterday.

In a press release, the company said the phone, dubbed “the most accessible BlackBerry 7 smart phone,” offers all the market-leading BlackBerry messaging and social-centric features that people in the region love. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to own and is a compact and sleek phone that provides many conveniences and applications to help customers keep connected to the people and information that matter most to them, it added.

The phone also boasts “the best keyboard in its class for quick and easy typing as well as a dedicated BBM key that brings the power of RIM’s popular mobile social network up in an instant,” the release said. The Facebook for BlackBerry and Twitter for BlackBerry apps are also included as well as Social Feeds which allows users to post updates to multiple social applications simultaneously and capture updates from news sources, social apps and instant messaging apps all in one consolidated view. The phone also has the longest lasting battery life yet in a BlackBerry Curve model.

Digicel Group Commercial Director Brian Finn said, “Smartphones have revolutionised the way we communicate because they enable us to stay continuously connected.

The popularity of BlackBerry smartphones from Digicel shows that customers want the very latest functionalities and data capabilities on their handsets, but they do not want to compromise on style….With BBM being used more and more across the world, now anyone can share their PIN and get chatting.”