BlackBerry Curve 8300 Specifications

Overview

Featuring a liquid silver finish, clean lines and soft edges, the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 smartphone is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry® smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard.

It’s packed with incredible features*, including a camera, BlackBerry® Maps, a media player, expandable memory**, Voice Activated Dialing, tethered modem and trackball navigation. Plus, you get all the core functionality you’ve come to expect in a BlackBerry smartphone—email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality.

The BlackBerry Curve smartphone—it’s your connection to everything that matters.


Specifications

Features Available

Email
Phone and SMS
Corporate Data Access*
Organizer
Wireless Internet
BlackBerry® Maps

Size

4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches /
107 x 60 x 15.5 mm (LxWxD)

Weight

Approximately 3.9 oz/111 g (with battery)

Keyboard

35-key, QWERTY keyboard
Dedicated send, end/power, mute and volume/zoom keys
Left convenience key pre-programmed for voice activated dialing and right convenience key pre-programmed for the camera
Backlit

Navigation

Trackball, ESC key and Menu key

Voice Input/Output

Integrated earpiece and microphone
Hands-free speakerphone
Hands-free headset
Bluetooth® v2.0; mono/stereo headset, hands-free and serial port profile supported. Bluetooth stereo audit (A2DP/AVCRP)

Headset

3.5 mm stereo headset capable

Notification

Polyphonic/MIDI and MP3 ringtones, tone, vibrate mode, on-screen or LED indicator

User Interface

Intuitive icons and menus

Display

Large, bright, high resolution, landscape screen, supporting over 65,000 colors
320 x 240 pixel color display

Camera

2.0MP camera with flash, self portrait mirror and digital zoom

Media Player

Supported audio formats: MP3, MIDI, AMR-NB, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA
Supported video formats: MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.263, WMV

Battery

1100 mAhr (removable/rechargeable Lithium cell)

Battery Life

Up to 408 hours or 17 days standby time and 240 minutes or 4 hours talk time****

Memory

64 MB flash memory
Expandable Memory
MicroSD†

Modem

Embedded RIM wireless modem
Tethered modem capability

Email Account Compatibility

Integrates with an existing enterprise email account or up to 10 personal/business email accounts

Includes BlackBerry® Desktop Software

Supported by version 4.2 or higher

Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server


Supported by:

* Version 2.1 or higher for Microsoft® Exchange
* Version 2.0 with Service Pack 2 or higher for IBM® Lotus® Domino®
* Version 4.0 or higher for Novell® GroupWise®

Smartphone Security

Password protection and keyboard lock

Accessories Included

USB cable for charging and PC synchronization
Wall charger

Network

Quad-Band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM®/GPRS and EDGE networks††

Works In:

US (850/1900 MHz)
Canada (850/1900 MHz)
Europe/Asia Pacific (900/1800 MHz)