DOCOMO Launches the BlackBerry Curve 9300 Smartphone in Japan

Tokyo, Japan - NTT DOCOMO, INC. today launched the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300 smartphone in Japan.

The BlackBerry Curve 9300 is a light-weight, compact smartphone that offers global 3G connectivity and features a comfortable full-QWERTY keyboard for fast, accurate typing, and an optical trackpad for fluid navigation. It includes built-in GPS and Wi-Fi®, as well as dedicated media keys located along on the top of the smartphone to provide handy controls for accessing multimedia and voice calls, such as skipping music tracks, pausing a video or muting.

The new smartphone also features a camera that can record video and a microSD/SDHC slot that supports up to 32 GB memory cards for media storage. With the included BlackBerry® Media Sync application, customers can easily synchronize their iTunes® and Windows Media™ Player digital music collections with the smartphone. In addition, users can customize the smartphone with a wide variety of applications found on BlackBerry App World™

The new BlackBerry Curve 9300 is supported on BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and BlackBerry® Internet Service allowing customers to access multiple supported email accounts, social networking sites and popular instant messaging services including BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger), with messages automatically pushed to the smartphone. The i-mode email service is also supported.

About NTT DOCOMO
NTT DOCOMO is the world’s leading mobile operator and provider of advanced mobile services. The company serves over 56 million customers in Japan, including 48 million using i-mode™, the world’s most popular mobile e-mail/Internet platform, and 54 million using FOMA™, the world’s original 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA. As a leader in the development of cutting-edge mobile technologies, DOCOMO is continually expanding the role of mobile phones as versatile and highly personalized "lifestyle tools" for everyday life, including with a wide range of innovative services for mobile payments, GPS, mobile TV, multimedia content and much more. NTT DOCOMO is listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM) and New York (DCM) stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.nttdocomo.com.

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