Wi-Fi BlackBerry is "@Home" on T-Mobile

The Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry Curve just arrived in T-Mobile's lineup, and surprise, surprise: it works on the carrier's calls-over-Wi-Fi HotSpot @Home service.

Already available on AT&T, the Curve ($250 with a two-year T-Mobile service plan) boasts most of your standard BlackBerry features, including its killer suite of e-mail tools, a full QWERTY keypad, a trackball, a built-in camera (a relative novelty for RIM phones), and a music player. What makes the Curve stand out, of course, is its Wi-Fi support—and in particular, its support for T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home service, which lets you make voice calls over Wi-Fi networks (with unlimited minutes, to boot). The $20-a-month @Home service requires a UMA-capable phone (which lets you roam seamlessly between Wi-Fi and standard GSM networks) to work—and until now, the only T-Mobile handsets that fit the bill were the uninspiring Nokia 6086 and Samsung T409. Now that the UMA-enabled Curve is here, @Home might be ready to enter the mainstream.

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