BlackBerry Curve 8520

BlackBerry Curve 8520

Manufacturer	BlackBerry
Compatible networks	GSM 800/900/1800/1900 MHz
Availability by region	September 2009
Type	Candybar smartphone
Form factor	Bar
Dimensions	109 x 60 x 13.9 mm
Mass	106 g (with battery)
Operating system	BlackBerry OS 5.0
CPU	512 MHz
Memory	256 MiB Application Memory
Removable storage	MicroSDHC Hot-swappable, support for up to 32GiB
Battery	Li-Ion 1150 mAh battery lithium-polymer
Display	320×240 px (0.1 megapixels), 2.46 in, up to 65 thousand colours
Rear camera	2-megapixel (1600 x 1200 pixels)
Front camera	No
Connectivity	WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g, Integrated Bluetooth 2.0, micro USB, 3.5 mm audio jack
Data inputs	QWERTY thumb keyboard, Touch Sensitive Optical Trackpad

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a smartphone from the BlackBerry Curve series manufactured in Canada. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an enterprise-based smartphone (as all Blackberry devices) and has standard features including mobile email, calendar and instant messaging amongst many others.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 has a new Touch Sensitive Optical Track pad Key feature as opposed to the standard Joystick used on many other BlackBerry devices -this is said to improve the ease of scrolling through menus, emails, Internet browser, and images as it is an optical sensor rather than a series of closely spaced buttons.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 was discontinued in April 2012, when the BlackBerry Curve 9220 was introduced as the successor to the BlackBerry Curve 8520.