BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 NFC phone snapped in the wild again

Seth Planck — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:18:27 +0000

BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 NFC phone snapped in the wild again Seth Planck

BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 NFC phone snapped in the wild again and coming to Telus very soon

We know we have shown you a photograph of the BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 NFC phone before, but this time BGR managed to catch a few shots of the upcoming BlackBerry, which will join the 9350, 9360 and 9370 NFC phones in the BlackBerry Curve Touch line up of budget NFC phones. It seems that RIM is attempting to saturate the market with a plethora of phones that have a slight variation on each other. This may explain why they are getting not-so-hot sales results from the BlackBerry 7 OS devices.With more Curves and Bolds than you can shake a stick at, we all just want to know where the QNX NFC phones are. If you are in the market for a small budget NFC phone that's probably going to cost less than $100, we doubt it can hurt any to add another to the pile.

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BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 video confirms NFC rumors

Seth Planck — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:39:38 +0000

BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 video confirms NFC rumors Seth Planck

BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 video confirms NFC rumors

A video of the BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 has surfaced on the German website MacBerry.de showing some NFC skills, which confirms it is an NFC capable device. However, just yesterday we reported exclusively that BlackBerry NFC phones are shipping without the kind of support needed to truly utilize near field communications and are giving users a poor NFC experience. We speculate that this is why some carriers are blocking NFC at the software level for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930. The BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 can be seen below in a silent video which does indeed confirm that it has an NFC chip on board. We see in the video that the NFC is tuned on and off, but there is no demonstration of the BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 actually reading an NFC tag. What is really interesting is how small these keyboard-less BlackBerry phones really are. It shows that RIM is heading in a different direction to woo the masses. In the video, we see the phone compared for sizing against the current Curve and Storm which shows that RIM got the memo that thin is in and that less is sometimes more.

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BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 NFC phone snapped in the wild again