The BlackBerry Curve 8300 is an innovative smartphone designed for customers who want a feature-rich multimedia phone with best-in-class mobile voice and data communication capabilities. It enables people on the move to make calls, send emails, surf the Internet, take and send photographs, listen to music, watch videos, access their organizer, and enjoy a range of other business and leisure applications.

The BlackBerry 8800 will feature i-gps*, a navigation application offered by Indosat that leverages the BlackBerry 8800 smartphone's built-in GPS to display the user's precise location and can provide directions to an address with turn-by-turn navigation. The i-gps application incorporates Garmin Mobile™ and is offered by Indosat in partnership with Garmin International, Inc. and PT Tele Atlas Indonesia.

“Our cooperation with RIM is part of our strategy and commitment to continuously enhance our service to customers,” said Mr. Guntur S. Siboro, Marketing Director at Indosat. “We are excited at the launch of these smartphones, as they are instrumental in providing the rich mobile experience that today’s mobile users are seeking.”

Another software application named i-stock will also be offered by Indosat and will be available to mobile users on both the BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry Curve 8300 smartphones. i-stock is a financial application that stems from Indosat’s partnership with PT Limas Centric Indonesia TBK. The application allows users to receive local stock market exchange information such as market summaries, active stock status, news and other financial information.

“We are pleased to be working with Indosat to introduce the BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the BlackBerry 8800 smartphones to Indosat customers in Indonesia,” said Mr. Norm Lo, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Research In Motion. “Our latest product offerings deliver an impressive combination of performance and design. The advanced multimedia features of the BlackBerry Curve and the built-in GPS with the BlackBerry 8800 add highly valuable dimensions to the user experience.”

The BlackBerry Curve 8300: Staying Connected to the People and Information that Matter Most
The BlackBerry Curve 8300 features a smooth and comfortable handset design. It offers exceptional email, messaging, browsing and phone features, along with advanced multimedia capabilities, a 2 megapixel camera, an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard and RIM's intuitive trackball navigation system. It includes a microSD expansion memory slot that supports both microSD and microSDHC memory cards. Bluetooth® 2.0 support is also integrated for use with hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits and other Bluetooth peripherals.

The BlackBerry 8800: Mapping Data, Turn-by-Turn Navigation Now in Indonesia
The new, elegant BlackBerry 8800 smartphone includes an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard and a range of powerful capabilities including exceptional email, messaging, browsing and phone features, an advanced media player, a microSD expansion memory slot that supports both microSD and microSDHC memory cards, as well as built-in GPS, making it easy for users to find addresses, track locations and get both visual routes as well as step-by-step driving directions with i-gps.

Both of the BlackBerry smartphones feature a large, high-resolution display with light sensing technology to automatically adjust display and keyboard backlighting for different environments and a trackball that makes it easy for users to navigate applications.

The BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the BlackBerry 8800 will be available from Indosat in early November at a recommended retail price of IDR 6.2 million and IDR 6.6 million respectively (including VAT). -Blackberry