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BlackBerry® Curve 8520

Cream of the crop


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- Unlimited BlackBerry Messenger
- Built-in Wi-Fi
- Unlimited email & web access
- Social networking
- Qwerty keyboard
- Voted Best Business Phone at the 2009 What Mobile Awards

Got Virgin TV, home broadband, or home phone? Get the BlackBerry Curve 8520 free from just £10 a month. If you are a Virgin Media customer you can get the BlackBerry Curve 8520 for just £10 a month instead of £12 a month, just to show how much we appreciate you.
Get the BlackBerry Curve 8520 for just £10 a month


Buy today and get:

  • 1 month's free phone insurance. Cover your Virgin Pay Monthly mobile, and the first month is on us. After that, its just £5.99 a month.
  • Up to £100 free airtime! Just trade in your old mobile after you've bought your new handset.

Back to All Pay Monthly phones.

Check out the Terms & conditions for these offers.

You can use the airtime in your package to make calls and send texts from within the UK to most UK mobile networks, at any time (currently excludes calls to Lyca Mobile, Truphone, Mundio, HAY Systems, TG Support and Cable & Wireless). Landlines are included too (thats numbers beginning with 01, 02 & 03). Calls to call forwarding services, 070, 08 and 09 numbers and some other numbers are not included in your monthly allowance.

Just so you know, all of our unlimited tariffs are subject to fair use policies.

'Unbeatable' claim based on comparison with published competitor BlackBerry tariffs up to £22.50 a month for the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 as at 5 May 2010.


Special Features
covers
Changeable Covers
games
Downloadable Games yes
How Many Games 3
messaging
Multimedia Messaging Service yes
Predictive Texting yes
ringtones
Create Your Own N/A
Downloadable Ones N/A
How Many Dependent on file size
Other Features
Camera Video
Camera yes
Camera resolution 2 Megapixel with fixed focus
Flash
Video capture yes
Video playback yes
Zoom 5x digital zoom
Colour
Animated Screensavers
Colour Menus yes
Colour Screensavers
Colour Wallpaper yes
Downloadable Images
Picture Phone Book yes
Pre-loaded Images yes
Resolution 65K
Other
Band Quad Band
Built-in Modem Yes
Calculator yes
Calendar yes
Clock/Alarm yes
FM Radio
Loudspeaker yes
Music player Yes
Silent Vibrate yes
Standby Time** Up to 17 days
Talk Time** Up to 4.5 hours

Battery Type 1150 mAahr cryptographic lithium cell
Bluetooth yes
Dimensions 109x60x13.9mm
Email client yes
Frames per second TBC
GPRS yes
Infrared Port
Memory Inbuilt or expandable Expandable
Memory size** Inbuilt: 256Mb
Phone Book Capacity* Unlimited
Recharge Time** 1 hour approximately
SAR Level (W/kg)** For 1g - 1.22, For 10g - 1.02
Screen size 320 x 240 pixels
WAP yes
Weight 106g
Wi-Fi yes

* Including 200 in Virgin Mobile SIM
** As quoted by manufacturer. If a phone has expandable memory function, the size is calculated by adding the internal memory with the memory card that comes in the box. Customers can increase the size by purchacing a separate memory card


LOADS!

  • BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone
  • Battery
  • Travel charger
  • Stereo Headset
  • Micro USB Cable
  • Desk top Manager CD ROM
  • Document Kit:
  • Learn More Guide
  • Start Here
  • Decleration of Conformity
  • Safety Information Booklet


24 month tariffs

Virgin BlackBerry £12 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 50 minutes
  • 250 Texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £15 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 100 minutes
  • 500 texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £20 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 200 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £25 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 400 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £30 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 600 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £35 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 800 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

18 month tariffs

Virgin BlackBerry £20 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 100 minutes
  • 500 texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £25 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 200 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £30 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 400 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £35 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 600 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access

Virgin BlackBerry £40 with Unlimited email & BlackBerry Messenger

Handset Price FREE
Your tariff gives you:
  • 800 minutes
  • Unlimited texts
  • Unlimited Web Access