BlackBerry Curve 8520
Price to be confirmed
available from M1, SingTel and StarHub at the end of this month

CORPORATE smartphone king Research In Motion has a new Curve model aimed at smartphone virgins.

Besides its standard Qwerty keypad, the 8520 also has a touch-sensitive trackpad for easier scrolling through menus.

With easy access to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, this is the first BlackBerry with dedicated media keys for one-touch control for music or movie playback.

This Curve can be set up to receive mail from up to 10 e-mail accounts like Yahoo, Microsoft Live and Gmail.