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December 24, 2008
It seems the stateside BlackBerry faithful will have to wait until the new year to get their hands on the BlackBerry Curve 8900, also known as the BlackBerry Javelin.

TmoNews, an unofficial T-Mobile news blog, has confirmed that the anticipated and updated Curve has a "hopeful" release date of Feb. 18. The device is expected to hit T-Mobile first.

Already available in Canada and the U.K., the Curve 8900, which got the stamp of approval from the FCC here in November, is being called the high-end BlackBerry Bold 9000's kid brother.

The quad-band Curve 8900 offers Edge support with built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a 512MHz next-generation processer, a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.4-inch, 480 x 360 high-resolution display. The Curve 8900 also marks the thinnest smartphone in BlackBerry's 10-year history to offer a full QWERTY keyboard, just a hair over a half-inch thick. While the Curve 8900 lacks 3G support, it wraps in a 3.2-megapixel camera and BlackBerry OS version 4.6.

The new Curve also integrates all of the business e-mail, messaging, calendaring and document viewing and editing features that have made BlackBerry a corporate staple while tying in a host of multimedia functions, such as a media player, that make it an appealing device to consumers as well.

The Curve 8900 could mark the first major release of 2009 for BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM), which introduced a string of hot smartphones into the market in the second half of 2008. RIM's recent releases include the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 for T-Mobile, RIM's first flip phone; the high-end BlackBerry Bold 9000 for AT&T; and the coveted BlackBerry Storm for Verizon Wireless, RIM's first touch-screen smartphone, which puts it in direct competition with other touch-screen titans like the T-Mobile G1 and the Apple iPhone 3G.

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