AT&T rolls out BlackBerry Curve 8320 at long last

by Laura June posted Dec 16th 2008 at 1:20PM

We heard a good while back that the WiFi-loving BlackBerry Curve 8320 would be making its way to AT&T, and here it is. The stunningly conservative Sapphire Blue shade might draw you in if the WiFi enhancement wasn't enough to convince you to upgrade from your 8300. Of course, this is all a bit less enticing now that options like the Bold (and the likely arrival of the 8900) exist, but hey -- better late than never, right? It's going for $149.99 with a two-year contract and a mail-in rebate, or $399.99 if you're just dying to pay full retail and have stacks and stacks of cash lying around.

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Filed under: Handsets, RIM, ATT

Tags: 8320, att, blackberry, curve, rim

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Anton Wahlman @ Dec 16th 2008 1:41PM

This is very strange. T-Mobile USA launched the 8320 on September 24, 2007, some 15 months earlier. The 8900 has already been launched in Germany and Canada, and is relatively imminent on T-Mobile USA and presumably also on AT&T. The 8900 completely replaces both the 8310 and 8320. Why bother introducing the 8320 at this extremely late stage? The only remotely plausible explanation I can conceive is that RIM built too many 8320 by accident and now needs someone to sell them for $49 or $99. Anybody who cares about performance, style, etc., will simply wait a few weeks -- perhaps 2 months at the most -- for the 8900. T-Mobile should have it by the first half of February and AT&T perhaps even earlier.

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James B @ Dec 16th 2008 2:59PM

Christmas.

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carcomptoy @ Dec 16th 2008 4:22PM

You people forget that, as evidenced by the RAZRs up-until-recent dominance, people don't care about substance so much as brand name and price. To the regular consumer, it's a Blackberry just like many of the celebs have, in a nice, inoffensive color, so I don't doubt that this well sell at a good price.

I do think the keypad should have been silver instead of black. Black and blue can be iffy sometimes. The same goes with the Crimson version.

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Ratnesh Mehra @ Dec 16th 2008 6:24PM

in response to anton wahlman:

They're thinking the same thing Sprint/Nextel was when they announced the PTT Curve just the other day - this phone still has some life in it and people like it. I'm curious to know what the best selling blackberry model has been (pre-Storm). When those newer models come out, the price on this will drop, but it won't disappear in my opinion - and that'll just make it even more available to the customers that maybe have wanted it all along.

Even at a cheaper price, a handset sale for ATT/RIM is a handset sale, and likely a contract extension = $