T-Mobile would start offering the BlackBerry Curve 9315 on January 23rd. Priced at $49.99 on a two-year contract, the device is packaged as the most affordable BlackBerry on the T-Mobile Network. The device though is just a minor update to the low-end Curve 9310 and won't have the highly anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system. Research in Motion is slated to announce the BB10 as well as a slew of full-touch and QWERTY-equipped devices January 30th.
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- Available for pre-sale January 16th, the device comes with mostly entry-level specs: a 3.2 megapixel rear camera, a microSD storage expansion slot, a 320 x 240 164ppi display and 512MB of RAM, FM radio, Wi-Fi, and only offers 3G connectivity.
- While it only costs $49.99 upfront, T-Mobile requires 20 equal monthly payments of $10 per month with a two-year T-Mobile Value voice and data plan.
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To see it rebranded for T-Mobile and introduced at this price on contract, hitting shelves a week before BB10 is officially unveiled is baffling.- Darrell Etherington, Mobile Crunch
Those of you keen to own such a device will be pleased to know the specification is far below that of many budget smartphones using the Android operating system, and the phone’s timeless design means it’s almost indistinguishable from those models introduced in 2008.- Andy Boxall, Digital Trends
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