The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a smartphone from the

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series manufactured in

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. It is also known as the BlackBerry Gemini.

Description

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a consumer smartphone and has standard features including mobile email, calendar and instant messaging among many others. The Curve 8520 has a new touch-sensitive

optical trackpad An optical trackpad is an input device based on an optical sensor, which detects the displacement of a finger that is moving on top of it. The sensor is used typically in smartphones, where it replaces the D-pad, and in ultra-portable or ultra-mob ...

as opposed to the trackball used on many other BlackBerry devices - this is said to improve the ease of scrolling through menus, emails, Web pages and images. The Curve 8520 was discontinued in April 2012, when the BlackBerry Curve 9220 was introduced as its successor.

References

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