Reliance Communications launches the BlackBerry Curve 8330 Smartphone

Reliance CDMA customers to enjoy world-class data and voice experience
Mumbai, India – In a move to offer a world-class data and voice experience to CDMA customers, Reliance Communications Ltd. (RCOM) and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8330 smartphone in India.
Starting 8th July 2008, Reliance Communications customers across India are able enjoy the option of choosing this new sleek and stylish high-speed smartphone that offers a powerful combination of communications and multimedia capabilities.
Offering a user-friendly design, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry® handset and comes with RIM’s intuitive trackball navigation system. It features a 2 megapixel camera, advanced multimedia capabilities and premium phone features along with the sophisticated BlackBerry platform which supports access to email, messaging and other mobile applications. With the new BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone, users can easily stay connected to work, family and friends while on the go. The feature-rich BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone from Reliance is priced at INR 25990.
“Reliance Communications is delighted to extend the choice of BlackBerry smartphones to its customers,” said Mahesh Prasad , President, RCOM Applications Solutions Group .“We are pleased to introduce the feature-rich BlackBerry Curve 8330. This BlackBery smartphone is now available at more than 500 stores across the top 20 towns. With RIM’s latest innovation, our customers will be able to enhance their mobile communications and make the most of their business and leisure time with this feature-rich smartphone.”
Frenny Bawa, Vice President, India, Research In Motion said” BlackBerry smartphones are designed to provide people with an optimized mobile experience for email, phone, web browsing and a wide range of other corporate and personal applications. RIM is very pleased to be working with Reliance to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8330 in India.”
Available in an elegant silver colour, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone features:
CDMA connectivityAccess to email, phone, organizer, browser and other mobile business and leisure applications2 megapixel camera with flash and 5x zoom, able to take pictures that can be shared via email, MMS and instant messaging applicationsAdvanced media player and enhanced desktop media manager software allowing customers to easily manage music, pictures and video between their PC and the BlackBerry Curve 8330Premium phone features including Voice Activated Dialing, speakerphone, and noise and echo cancellation technology for clearer callsBluetooth® 2.0, with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits, and other Bluetooth accessoriesInstant Messaging with BlackBerry® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger and Google TalkSupport on BlackBerry® Internet Service, which provides users with the ability to access up to 10 supported email accounts, including most ISP email accounts, from a single deviceSupport on BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, which tightly integrates with IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® and works with existing enterprise systems to enable push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data together with advanced security and IT administration.Reliance Communications has a wide range of BlackBerry smartphones for its CDMA customers such as the BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 and the BlackBerry® 8703e. Reliance is the first Indian operator to launch the BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition allowing interoperability between the high speed CDMA and ubiquitous GSM networks. BlackBerry 8830 World Edition enables Reliance customers to experience high speed Internet access as well as offers international roaming across the globe, to enhance productivity of business professionals on the move.
About Reliance Communications:Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has net worth in excess of Rs. 55,000 crore (US$ 14 billion), cash flows of Rs. 11,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 7,700 crore (US$ 1.9 billion) and zero net debt. Rated among “Asia’s Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies”, Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company, with a customer base of over 48 million including over 1.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies by number of customers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 1,850 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 250 global carriers.
Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire infocomm value chain, covering over 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 165,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit www.reliancecommunications.co.in
About Research In Motion (RIM)
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com
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