Colour your world with the BlackBerry Curve 9360

The stylish, ultra-slim BlackBerry® Curve™ 9360 smartphone is now available in black, white, ruby red, royal purple* and ballet pink** so you can choose the colour you love best.

Powered by the new BlackBerry® 7 Operating System (OS), the BlackBerry Curve 9360 delivers a highly refined and integrated suite of phone, email, messaging, web browsing and social apps to keep you connected and productive throughout the day.

The BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone is slim, stylish and simply beautiful. It is ergonomically designed with a comfortable and iconic QWERTY keyboard for fast, accurate typing and an optical trackpad for easy, one-handed navigation.

GPS and Wi-Fi® support are also included, as well as a 5MP camera with flash and video recording so that memories can be captured and instantly shared on social networks. The microSD/SDHC slot supports up to 32 GB memory cards for additional media storage.

In addition to supporting the new BlackBerry 7 OS, the new BlackBerry Curve smartphone features a range of powerful hardware enhancements including an upgraded processor, display and memory, and built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications), a new technology that is enabling many exciting capabilities, including the ability to make mobile payments, pair accessories or read SmartPoster tags with a simple tap of the smartphone.

The BlackBerry Curve 9360 features the best messaging and social media capabilities on the market:
• The latest release of BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) is pre-loaded and now extends the real time BBM experience to a range of other apps, allowing users to easily interact with each other from within the ‘BBM connected’ app.
• The updated Social Feeds (2.0) app has been extended to allow users to post updates to multiple social applications simultaneously and capture updates from news sources (RSS), social apps and instant messaging apps all in one consolidated view.
• The new Facebook® for BlackBerry smartphones (2.0) app introduces features like Facebook chat and BBM integration that makes it easier for users to connect with their Facebook friends in real time utilizing push notifications.
• Twitter™ for BlackBerry smartphones is also included and delivers a deeply integrated experience including use of real time push notifications, access to multiple accounts and Social Feeds integration.

The BlackBerry 7 operating system (OS) introduces a next generation BlackBerry browser which combines the dramatically improved performance of the advanced WebKit browser engine with the hardware enhancements in the new BlackBerry Curve smartphone to deliver a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience. Additional enhancements to this next generation BlackBerry browser have also enabled smoother navigation and optimised HTML5 performance for incredible gaming and video experiences.

For more information about the new BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone, please visit: http://za.blackberry.com/devices/blackberrycurve9360.

* BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone in black, white, ruby red, royal purple now available from Vodacom stores countrywide. Check with Vodacom for specific information on availability and pricing.
** BlackBerry Curve 9360 ballet pink available from Vodacom stores countrywide and Edcon Group.