Etisalat reduces prices of BlackBerry 8100 and 8700

Customers can now take advantage of attractive DSS prices to enjoy the Mobile Internet experience

In line with Dubai Summer Surprises, Etisalat today announced attractive savings for customers by reducing the prices of the BlackBerry 8100 and 8700 handsets. Starting today, customers can buy the BlackBerry 8700 model for Dh 2070 instead of AED 2470. The prices of the BlackBerry 8100 model has also been reduced from Dh 2090 to AED 1800.

The BlackBerry 8700g is meant to deliver superior performance for web browsing, application use and attachment viewing. In addition, the BlackBerry 8700g provides a bright, high resolution LCD screen that supports more than 65,000 colors and delivers vivid graphics. It also incorporates an intelligent light-sensing technology that automatically adjusts the screen and keyboard lighting to provide optimized viewing in outdoor, indoor and dark environments. The BlackBerry 8700g also includes premium phone features such as dedicated 'send,' 'end' and 'mute' keys, smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing, call forwarding, speakerphone and Bluetooth® support for hands-free use with car kits and wireless headsets.

The BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphone is one of the world’s smallest smartphones and packs all of the power you expect from a BlackBerry® smartphone. It comes complete with digital camera, multimedia capabilities and expandable memory. And it offers users everything they would expect from a BlackBerry smartphone — including phone, email, web browser, text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer applications and more.

 The BlackBerry handsets are now available across 10 prominent retailers across the UAE. Customers can now purchase their BlackBerry 8800 handset from any branch of Jumbo Electronics, CellUCom, Sharaf DG, i2, Radio Shack, Alltronix, Telefonika, Jacky's, Plug Ins and Carrefour.

Etisalat BlackBerry Service provides unlimited mobility to three of the mostly used services on the internet which are web browsing, Push email up to 10 email accounts and Instant Messaging which makes it the ultimate service for customers who wants to be always in touch with their Business and the Internet world.

Etisalat currently offer three monthly packages that suites almost any usage pattern ranging from light user with a AED 130 per month to medium users with AED 185 per month  and heavy users with the Global unlimited at AED. 295 per month

BlackBerry Service from Etisalat offers complete coverage of the UAE and with GPRS coverage of more than 85 countries as  a mobile internet solution that provides the complete mobile internet experience

 August 6,2007