AT&T and RIM releases the Curve

AT&T will be the first wireless carrier in North America to offer the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve in wireless retail and business channels beginning today, as the carrier along with RIM announced the introduction of the “smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry handset.”

As we’ve already wrote several times about the Curve, I’ll just quote Kent Mathy, president of AT&T (NYSE: T)’s Business Markets Group: “The BlackBerry Curve has all of the qualities of a winner that will resonate with a broad segment of AT&T customers. Business professionals and consumers alike will gravitate to its iconic look, industry-leading coverage both here in the U.S. and abroad, robust e-mail and Web browsing capabilities, and powerful entertainment offerings.”