Seemingly targeting the casual smartphone user whose interests may have roused by the iPhone hype machine, Blackberry have released details of their latest Curve 8520 which seems geared to first time buyers.
Changes include three new multimedia buttons on the top of the phone for music playback control, as well as swapping the old nobbly trackball for optical technology, redesigned for fast scrolling through web pages, emails and documents.
Battery life is 4.5 hours of talk time and 17 days of standby but lots less using the GPRS internet. A microSD card slot allows for expandable memory and it comes with a (quite low) 2 megapixel camera with 5x zoom. The display stays the same 320 x 240 TFT LCD with Bluetooth, WiFi and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

[Via t3]