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Maxis Offer Blackberry Curve 8520 In White

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One of thing you’ll notice from the launch of Maxis’s new Blackberry prepaid service is the availability of Blackberry Curve 8520 in white color, a rare but quite popular color of choice for smartphone nowadays. Unlike Blackberry Bold 9700 white color which has special event to announce it’s arrival, Blackberry Curve 8520 white color come almost unnoticed.

The shift from traditional black color smartphone to something fresh such as white color is notable with many smartphone coming out with such color that appeal to younger generation. It usually released later, months or years after the launch of black color model, and that’s how it gained the kind of exclusivity it is admired for. If you’re asked, black or white?

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Maxis Introduce Daily Renewal Blackberry Prepaid Service

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When Maxis introduced prepaid for Blackberry service last year, the package hardly can be called ‘prepaid’. The main reason is because, you have to pay huge amount of ‘prepayment’ of the service for couple of months in advance, as well as the lack of daily service renewal. Now that Digi has introduced the same daily concept of prepaid for Blackberry , similar like what Celcom had from the beginning, is is really call for Maxis to have the same services. Well.. Maxis finally did it last week, coming out with daily prepaid Blackberry service for RM2.50 per day with 200MB worth of data (daily or monthly, will check that later). Now that we call prepaid, isn’t? Maxis is also having promotion where you can get BlackBerry Curve 8520 at RM1,099 or RM95 per month over 12 months on easy payment plans. More of that can be found on the source link (Maxis Press Release) at the end of this post

Via Mytechnews Source : Maxis Press Release

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Official OS 5.0 Upgrade for Blackberry Curve 8520

The copy of Blackberry OS 5.0 for Blackberry Curve 8520 has leaked out since last year, but only officially available beginning this month. It appears that the leaked version (v5.0.0.4111) and the official version (5.0.0.509) has different version number, which may point to specific carriers.

Apart from that, the most obvious different between the two is the key lock button, which is now using the mute button located on top of the device. Some also experience poor phot0 quality after upgrade.

The official upgrade is originally meant for Wind Hellas, but works with Curve 8520 running on other carriers as well. And for those looking for versions that support East Asian Language, you may try this one, an upgrade for Axis Indonesia.

p/s : If you fear of loosing your Blackberry App World (for countries that are not yet supported), please be advised not to upgrade.

Software For BlackBerry® Curve(TM) 8520 Smartphone
BlackBerry Handheld Software v5.0.0.860 (Multilanguage)

Package Version: 5.0.0.860
Consisting of:

  • Applications: 5.0.0.509
  • Software Platform: 5.2.0.47
  • File name: 8520wifiM_PBr5.0.0_rel860_PL5.2.0.47_A5.0.0.509_Wind_Hellas.exe
  • File size: 117.78MB

Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.

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Maxis’s CNY Sale : RM188 for Blackberry Curve 8520

4292283445 a772573bc2 o Maxiss CNY Sale : RM188 for Blackberry Curve 8520

There is no better time to get yourself a Blackberry Curve 8520 other than now, as Maxis is ‘letting go’ this device for RM188 only. But before you get too excited, please be reminded that you have to pay the 12 months service upfront which equals to RM1176.

That’s RM1364 in total together with the device price. But, it still a super good deal, compared to early buyers who have to fork out RM800-RM1000 for the device only. And then live with RM58 – RM98 monthly fee to stay with ‘unlimited’ data service.

Check out this page for this incredible offer.

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Inside the Blackberry Curve 8520′s OS version 5.0

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I have my Blackberry Curve 8520 running on OS version 5.0.0.31 , which leaked couple of weeks before.  The first attempt installing leaked unofficial OS was successful and the device works with only few minor issue afterwards.

Always keep in mind that installing unofficial software update may cause the device  to malfunction in worst scenario.  RIM or your telco/carrier will not going to entertain you in case something goes wrong. So before you go for an upgrade, ensure that you have quite  an understanding how the upgrading/downgrading process works, backup/restore data and etc. Look no further as you can find almost everything at crackberry.com.

I didn’t spot many new stuff in OS 5.0 although it might because of my weak observation . I try my best and here are the new thins that I can see on the OS V5.0.

Application Updater -  I was greeted with Application Updater once the device rebooted. (anyone seen this before??)
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SMS – Compose SMS menu has new user interface. You’ll’ be asked to select the contact before starting writing the content.

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SMS content now shown in threaded conversation, sorted by the time when the messages were received and sent. As your cursor moved from one message to another, the time when message received or sent will be displayed just beside the contact’s avatar.

Replying SMS also become easier now with the new reply text box at the bottom of the threaded message.

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As far as I can see, there is no major change on the OS update especially on the user interface GUI. What I notice is  more blue colour on the icon and button when you move the trackpad cursor over it.  Here are some screenshot.

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And here is the new(left) VS old front screen. Notice the difference??

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The internet browser also received minor face-lift.

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Apart from that, there is some issue that you should take note if you decide to upgrade

  • Blackberry App World – The app will be deleted. Because I live in the country where App World is still not available, I have to install is using workaround, but in this OS 5.0, the workaround no longer working.
  • Seismic – Only work on WIFI connection, although ‘automatic’ connection was choosen. More toward compatibility I suppose.
  • Application Center menu – All applications were gone. Not that big issue because you can download it directly or from App World (if you have)
  • If you’re in the midst of listening to music, incoming SMS alert halted the music playback permanently.
  • Internet browser – When the page is loading, pressing ‘G’ to switch to the search and URL menu does not working.
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