You’ve got to hand it to Research In Motion, despite all the setbacks that have been hit with in the past, the company still keeps on churning out new BlackBerry smartphones, and one such handset is the BlackBerry Curve 9310, a device that has now been announced for Verizon.

According to the guys over at Slash Gear, RIM along with the Big Red have announced the BlackBerry Curve 9310 smartphone will be available from Verizon in two days time, the 12th of July.

The BlackBerry Curve 9310 is the CDMA variant of the BlackBerry Curve 9320 that was announced a while back, and sports a 2.44-inch QVGA display along with a QWERTY keyboard of course, 512MB RAM, 3.2 megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and microSD expansion up to 32GB, and runs BlackBerry OS 7.1.

The BlackBerry Curve 9310 also offers a dedicated BlackBerry Messenger button, along with audible turn-by-turn navigation via VZ Navigator, Facebook and Twitter apps for your social networking needs are also present, as are parental controls.

So, if you are a fan of BlackBerry handsets and your preferred carrier is of the Big Red colour, Verizon is offering the BlackBerry Curve 9310 for 99-bucks, although you can shave 50-bucks off that with a mail in rebate bring the device down to an affordable $49.99 on the usual tow-year agreement of course, and apparently you will need to subscribe to an unlimited talk and text plan with 300MB of data, which starts off at 80-bucks a month.

So there you have it, if you have been waiting for the BlackBerry Curve 9310 to become available on Verizon, you only have a couple of more days to wait. Will any of our American readers be hitting up Verizon to grab the BlackBerry Curve 9310?