AT&T and Research in Motion today announced that the BlackBerry Curve will be available to both retail and business channels, tomorrow, May 31st.
View pricing and availability information after the jump…
The BlackBerry Curve will be available for as low as $199.99 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate beginning May 31 in AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless) retail stores, online at www.cingular.com, through select national retailers and various AT&T business channels. Customers who want personal e-mail access and Web browsing with BlackBerry Internet Service can choose the BlackBerry Personal Unlimited plan for as low as $29.99 a month with a qualified voice contract. Unlimited corporate e-mail access via BlackBerry Enterprise Server is as low as $44.99 a month when a qualified voice plan is also chosen or when customers who travel overseas can have unlimited e-mail access internationally for as low as $64.99 a month with a qualified voice plan. Unlimited Cingular Push to Talk service is available for an additional monthly charge of $9.99 per device and $19.99 for Push to Talk Family. AT&T Push to Talk also features a pay-per-use option of $.15 a minute. TeleNav GPS Navigator monthly service is available for $5.99 for 10 trips or $9.99 for unlimited trips. As features within AT&T Music, XM Satellite Radio and MusicID require monthly subscription fees of $8.99 and $3.99, respectively.
finally!! Victory is ours!
Only if you’re an AT&T customer. Any more news on a VZW launch??
I can’t hear them now….
The inevitable question comes up regarding a CDMA version for Verizon…this is indicative of why VZW needs to step up with their BB releases.
My guess, and that’s all it is, is that VZW will a version of the Curve out for the Christmas/Holiday season…so it won’t be the full year wait that it had been in the past, until the 8800 series, but it will still be about a 4 to 6 month time lag.
It’s a pity: a VZW Curve with true 3G would have been the best competitor to the iPhone that VZW could have offered up.
XM radio will be a good push for this device