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BlackBerry® Curve 8520

Your social life saver

Why buy it?

Best bits

  • Unlimited email and BlackBerry® Messenger
  • Built-in Wi-Fi
  • Social networking
  • Qwerty keyboard
  • 2 megapixel camera

Buy today and get:

  • £10 airtime included in the price of the phone, plus an extra 300 free texts - just to say hello.

Firing up your BlackBerry® services...

To use BlackBerry® Mail, Messenger and Mobile Web you will need to buy a pass for your BlackBerry. As we know our customers like flexibility we have two passes to choose from.

A week's pass costs just £2
A month's pass costs just £5

Full details of how to fire up your BlackBerry® services are included in the box.

If you are purchasing this smartphone for a child under 18 years old, please be aware that Adult Content Filtering is not currently available on the Virgin Mobile network. Research In Motion is working in conjunction with the mobile operators to make filtering available on BlackBerry handsets for all mobile networks during 2012.


Your BlackBerry will come with our Pay As You Go Addict tariff SIM which gives you top up rewards.

Top up with:

  • £15 in a month and get 3,000 free texts and 1 GB Mobile Web
  • £10 in a month and get 300 free texts 


Topped up with less than £15? 
If you do not have a BlackBerry pass and have topped up with less than £15 in a month you can still access the Mobile Web for just 50p per day for 25MB. This is ideal for occasional use as you only pay on the days you browse the Mobile Web. Free texts or Mobile Web access will be added on the first day of the month following the top up(s

100 free minutes when you switch your number to us
Just buy online today, then ask your current provider for your PAC code. Then give us a call and we'll transfer your number in one working day and give you 100 free minutes to use in your first month to call any UK network

Back to All Pay As You Go phones

Check out the Terms & Conditions for these offers.

All of our 'unlimited' rewards are subject to fair use policies.

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Features

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

Technical Stuff

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

What you get

A 24 month warranty and all this in the box..

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