BlackBerry Curve 8300

• Overview
• Features Available
• Getting Started
• Specifications

Overview

Featuring a liquid silver finish, clean lines and soft edges, the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 smartphone is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry® smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard.

It's packed with incredible features*, including a camera, BlackBerry® Maps, a media player, expandable memory, Voice-Activated Dialing, tethered modem and trackball navigation. Plus you get all the core functionality you’ve come to expect in a BlackBerry smartphone — email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality.

The BlackBerry Curve — it’s your connection to everything that matters.

Features Available*

• Wireless email
• Organizer
• Browser
• Phone
• Camera
• BlackBerry® Maps
• Corporate data access*
• SMS
• MMS *
• Next-generation media player
• Instant messaging
• 64 MB Flash memory plus microSD expandable memory slot**
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Tethered modem capability — use your smartphone as a wireless modem for your laptop or PC*
• Dedicated Send, End and Mute keys, a trackball navigation system, plus user definable convenience keys
• Speakerphone and Voice Activated Dialing
• Bluetooth® capability for hands-free dialogue via headsets and car kits — mono/stereo headset, hands-free and serial port profiles supported. Bluetooth stereo audio (A2DP/AVCRP)
• 3.5mm stereo headset capable
• Integrated attachment viewing
• Compatibility with popular Personal Information Management (PIM) software
• High resolution, light sensing screen that adjusts lighting levels automatically for ideal indoor and outdoor viewing
• Easy email set-up directly from your BlackBerry Curve via the set-up wizard

Enterprise friendly

The BlackBerry Curve smartphone works with your organization's BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution to provide enterprise class functionality, including:

• Advanced security features
• Push delivery of data from corporate applications
• Remote address book look-up
• Wireless synchronization with corporate PIM tools
• Single mailbox integration

Unlike traditional mobile phones, the BlackBerry Curve smartphone can be centrally managed and supported by IT departments.

Getting Started

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Setting up your smartphone

Whether you’re using BlackBerry® Enterprise Server or BlackBerry® Internet Service, setting up your BlackBerry® smartphone is simple and can be done completely over-the-air.

Not sure whether to set up your smartphone for BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Internet Service? Follow these guidelines:

BlackBerry Internet Service

Use this option if one or more of the following apply:

• You purchased your smartphone in a store
• You want to set up a new email account for use with your smartphone
• You want to send and receive email messages on your smartphone from one or more existing email accounts

BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Use this option if one or more of the following apply:

• You want to receive messages from your corporate Microsoft® Outlook®, IBM® Lotus® Notes® or Novell® GroupWise® email account
• A system administrator is managing BlackBerry Enterprise Server within your company
• A system administrator has confirmed that you are permitted to use the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
• You subscribe to a wireless service that supports account setup using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server

For instructions on setting up your email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Internet Service, please see a Blue Shirt Advisor!

Before setting up your email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you will need to contact your IT department to request:

• That an account be set up for you on your organization’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server
• Your enterprise activation password

Specifications

*Check with service provider for availability, roaming arrangements and service plans. Certain features outlined herein require a minimum version of BlackBerry software. Support for Triple DES encryption is available for BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino only.
**The BlackBerry 8300 accepts microSD cards; the amount of storage is determined by card capacity.