Smart Telecom and RIM Launch the BlackBerry Tour smartphone in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia - Smart Telecom, a national cellular operator, and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, today launched the 3G-enabled BlackBerry® Tour™ 9630 smartphone for CDMA customers in Indonesia. The new BlackBerry Tour smartphone offers state-of-the-art communications and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Jakarta, Indonesia - Smart Telecom, a national cellular operator, and Research In Motion ( RIM ) ( NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM ), a global leader in wireless innovation, today launched the 3G-enabled BlackBerry® Tour™ 9630 smartphone for CDMA customers in Indonesia. The new BlackBerry Tour smartphone offers state-of-the-art communications and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling. It is a feature-packed and highly refined world phone that keeps you connected and lets you tour the world in style.
The BlackBerry Tour smartphone provides the industry’s leading mobile solution for email, messaging ( IM, SMS, MMS ) and social networking ( including Facebook® and MySpace ), together with built-in GPS and advanced multimedia capabilities, enabling customers to make the most of both their personal and professional time.
Along with the BlackBerry Tour smartphone, Smart is introducing an attractive new BlackBerry service plan name “Smart BlackBerry Hebat”. The Smart BlackBerry Hebat service plan is available for both prepaid and postpaid customers, allowing them to enjoy unlimited data access to the Internet and email as well as unlimited video streaming ( RTSP ) on Smart's high-speed CDMA network. In addition, customers will be able to utilize the BlackBerry Tour as a modem with unlimited data access for no additional charge. Starting today, Smart offers this package at IDR 8,000 per day or IDR 180,000 for 30 days.
Customers can purchase the BlackBerry Tour smartphone from Smart at an affordable price and if they have a Mandiri credit card, they can pay for the handset over six months, interest free. Both purchase options include a free 30-day subscription to the Smart BlackBerry Hebat service plan.
“We are introducing the BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone to our CDMA customers along with a new unlimited and affordable BlackBerry service plan - Smart BlackBerry Hebat. By subscribing to the Smart BlackBerry Hebat service plan, customers do not have to worry about any additional charges. The BlackBerry Tour 9630 is an exceptional smartphone that allows customers to easily keep in touch with the people and information that matter most to them, at any time and anywhere,” said Tom A Dinharsa, Head of Device Technology & Special Projects, PT Smart Telecom.
“We are very pleased to work together to add this powerful new 3G world phone to Smart’s successful portfolio of BlackBerry products and services for customers in Indonesia,” said Gregory Wade, Managing Director for Southeast Asia at Research In Motion. “With its striking design and exceptional performance, the new BlackBerry Tour offers a compelling choice for the growing number of wireless customers that want to do more with their phone than just make calls.”
Features of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone include:
World phone capabilities with support for high-speed CDMA networks in Indonesia and UMTS/HSPA ( 2100Mhz ) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad Camera ( 3.2 MP ) 256 MB Flash memory Advanced media player Support for BlackBerry App World™ Built-in GPS BlackBerry® Maps BlackBerry Push Email Organizer Browser Phone Access to corporate data with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server or BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express SMS/MMS 2GB external memory card ( microSD/SDHC ) included in the box Activating the Smart BlackBerry Hebat service plan from a BlackBerry smartphone is easy. Users can simply send an SMS to 2233 with the text “ON Hebat30” for monthly service or “ON Hebat1” for daily service. To deactivate, users can send an SMS with the text “OFF” to 2233. Both prepaid and postpaid customers can subscribe to the new service plan.
The BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone and BlackBerry service plans are available for purchase at Smart’s galleries, Trikomsel or Okeshop and through Smart’s delivery service via phone at 088 11 22 33 44. About Smart Telecom
PT Smart Telecom is a cellular service provider in Indonesia with CDMA 2000 1X-EVDO Rev.A technology transmitting at 1,900 MHz. The technology enables subscribers to constantly communicate and to send high-speed data with affordable price on coverage that is continuously expanded eventually to nationwide.
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