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The BlackBerry Curve 8520, also known as the BlackBerry Gemini, has a mixture of business and consumer market targeted functionalities. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is part of a range of BlackBerry mobile phones (others include the BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the Curve 8900) that are relatively cheap mobile phones and which feature email, phone and texting services with more multimedia and social networking features.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 measures 4.29 by 2.36 by 0.55 inches. It weighs just 3.74 inches, making it one of BlackBerry’s lighter mobile phones. Its battery life allows for 4.5 hours of talk time and 17 days (408 hours) of standby time.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520’s main screen has a picture resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Somewhat disappointingly the screen size is on the small side, measuring just 2.64 inches. Also relatively basic is the camera resolution of just 2 megapixels, although it does have a digital zoom.

The inbuilt video player supports MPEG4, H.263, H.264, and WMV files and the music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WAV and AMR files. The mobile phone has a memory of 128 MB RAM/256 MB ROM. It has a full QWERTY keyboard, microUSB, Wi-Fi, 2.0 Bluetooth and allows for email services on IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and BlackBerry Connect.

All in all, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a relatively basic BlackBerry that achieves what it sets out to do, but does not dazzle. Many competitor mobile phones achieve similar results.