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Mobile Content Bits: New BlackBerry; NPR Mobile; Opera Page Views; NFL On Pre; Qualcomm Widgets

T-Mobile USA gets new Curve: Research In Motion said today the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available via T-Mobile USA on August 5. The phone comes with T-Mobile’s hotspot voice service that uses wi-fi. It also is the first BlackBerry to come with a touch-sensitive optical trackpad, rather than the track ball. Release.

NPR on Mobile: Public radio station NPR said it has new NPR News mobile applications currently underdevelopment. The apps are being developed using NPR’s open application programming interface that launched a year ago and allows and NPR stations full access to NPR’s current and archived content. The iPhone app will allow people to listen or read NPR coverage and bookmark a favorite station for its live and on-demand streams.

Opera Mini page views broke 10 billion: For the first time, Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report. In June 2009, Opera Mini had nearly 26.5 million unique consumer users, a 4.2 percent increase from May 2009 and more than 143 percent compared to June 2008.

Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre gets NFL coverage: Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel said today that the Palm Pre just got a NFL Mobile Live application just in time for the start of training camp for NFL teams. The app was installed with the update to Palm webOS 1.1.0. With the app, you can listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game in 2009 and watch all eight NFL Network Thursday Night Football telecasts beginning Nov. 12.

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) partners with America Movil: America Movil in Latin America has agreed to deploy Qualcomm’s Plaza Mobile Internet, which allows the carrier to offer internet-based widgets to all of its 18 subsidiaries in Latin America, reaching more than 190 million wireless subscribers.

Jul 27, 2009 8:14 PM ET

BlackBerry Curve 8520 Photo: T-Mobile USA

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