RESEARCH In Motion (RIM) launched Wednesday its most affordable BlackBerry 7 smartphone for customers in Saudi Arabia. Designed to be both easy to use and easy to own, the compact and sleek BlackBerry Curve 9220 smartphone offers customers an outstanding combination of features and apps to help them stay connected to the people and information that matter most throughout their day. Sandeep Saihgal, Managing Director, Middle East at RIM, said "the new BlackBerry Curve 9220 is a great upgrade for current feature-phone users looking for their first smartphone. It delivers all the unique messaging and social-centric features that people love about the BlackBerry solution and at a wonderfully affordable price." Running BlackBerry 7.1 OS, the BlackBerry Curve 9220 supports the full complement of BlackBerry services. It features a dedicated BBM key, which brings the power of RIM's popular mobile social network up in an instant. The Facebook for BlackBerry and Twitter for BlackBerry apps are included, as well as Social Feeds 2.0, which allows customers to post updates to multiple social applications simultaneously and capture updates from news sources (RSS), social apps and instant messaging apps all in one consolidated view. It also includes a built-in FM radio, allowing users to tune into their favorite local stations without incurring any data charges.
