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  • T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 now available

    It seems as if the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 would never hit the market, but after leak after leak after leak after leak, the damn phone is finally available from T-Mobile for $149.99. Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors

  • T-Mobile launches BlackBerry Pearl 8220, available today for $149.99

    Filed under: Handsets , Features , RIM , T-Mobile , GSM , EDGE The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 runs neck-and-neck with the Storm for the title of "most leaked RIM device of 2008," but for what it's worth, T-Mobile is just now getting around to announcing a date and price for the most fliptastic phone in Waterloo's ever-expanding lineup. That's good news -- but perhaps the best news is that the launch date just happens to be today (for one of the two available colors, anyhow). The black version of the 8220 will be appearing online and in T-Mobile stores today, while the dark red will be following on a week later on Monday, October 20. Both will run $149.99 on a two-year contract. We've been toying around with the black 8220 for a few days now, and our emotions are mixed. With WiFi, support for T-Mobile's HotSpot unlimited calling service, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 2-megapixel cam with flash, support for microSD cards up to 16GB, and everything that makes a BlackBerry a BlackBerry, there's little question that it's got some horsepower under the hood, but there are a couple odd personality quirks that we'd personally have a tough time getting used to. First off -- something we first noticed when we played with it at CTIA last month -- the keys are completely flush and tucked up next to one another, making it nearly impossible to type confidently (of course, we weren't huge fans of SureType to begin with, so experts might have an easier go of it). Along the same vein, the trackball is deeply recessed, so your thumb is constantly rubbing against the chrome well surrounding the ball; not a dealbreaker by any stretch, but annoying after a while. On the plus side, we think it's a pretty striking (albeit beefy) phone, the exterior display is both beautiful and functional, and we really think this is going to appeal to a whole bunch of folks who'd otherwise be considering a Pearl candybar . We'd once heard rumors that RIM and T...

  • RIM's BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 gets photographed, previewed

    Filed under: Handsets , RIM , T-Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA While many of you may be waiting for some other handset to launch on T-Mobile, BlackBerry addicts may very well be counting down the hours 'til this one lands on the aforesaid carrier. If we just rang your bell, chances are you'll be extremely interested in this here preview, which delivers a whole gaggle of photographs, a decidedly ho hum video (hosted after the break) of the Pearl Flip 8220 in action and a lengthy writeup explaining the ins and outs of RIM's first flip phone. As for highlights, this thing turns into a real monster (read: it's big) when opened, but when closed, it's a real looker. For more on the aesthetics (not to mention some shots beside a few other BlackBerry siblings -- Bold included), head on down to the read link and dig in. Continue reading RIM's BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 gets photographed, previewed Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • BlackBerry Pearl 8220 coming in silver, too

    Filed under: Handsets , RIM , GSM , EDGE We've already known about burgundy and black versions of RIM's first flip, but silver? Sure looks like it from new images posted on Spanish site miblackberry.com, and frankly, we think it's the most flattering color combo we've seen to date. Then again, the phone is so frickin' huge in person that it could end up being a totally excessive amount of shiny, metallic plastic in your face when you crack it open -- but from the press shots, at least, color us impressed (pun intended). T-Mobile, any interest in this one, too? [Via CrackBerry ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • BlackBerry Pearl 8220 goes live on T-Mobile's site

    Filed under: Handsets , RIM , T-Mobile , GSM , EDGE Don't go grabbing your plastic -- the darned thing isn't for sale quite yet -- but at least T-Mobile's giving us something to ogle on its site now with an official placeholder page for its Pearl 8220 . The red shown on the site does a good job illustrating that it's toned down enough to pass as a business device, but for anyone still worried they're going to blind their coworkers, black should be available, too. It's not as deeply satisfying as an "In Stock" sign, but T-Mob's offering a link to preregister for the phone, which'll presumably give you first dibs when it launches in the next few weeks. [Via Cell Phone Signal ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • Sprint LG Lotus LX600 Lotus Announced

    As nice as SureType on the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 may be, there’s something to be said about a full QWERTY keyboard. As such, fans of text messaging and flip phones may want to take a gander at the recently revealed Sprint LG LX600 Lotus. Set to launch with Sprint, the LG Lotus is a somewhat chubby [...]
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  • BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220: RIM’s first clamshell smartphone announced

    That rumor about the first BlackBerry clamshell being announced today turned out to be true after all. RIM just issued an official press release with information regarding the BlackBerry Pearl 8220’s initial launch. Officially called the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, that clamshell smartphone we all knew as the BlackBerry Kickstart will be a quadband GSM EDGE [...]

  • RIM finally comes clean with BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220

    Filed under: Handsets , RIM , T-Mobile , GSM , EDGE We'll be honest -- KickStart just had a nicer ring to it, but we suppose Pearl Flip will do. RIM's long-awaited (and not-at-all veiled ) BlackBerry flip phone has finally arrived, weighing just 3.6-ounces and boasting a 320 x 240 internal display, Bluetooth 2.0, built-in multimedia player, 802.11b/g WiFi and a SureType keypad. The battery promises four hours of talk time / over a fortnight of standby life, and while pricing and exact release details are still hush-hush, Americans can count on seeing it "this fall" exclusively on T-Mobile . In related news, RIM also announced support for AIM / ICQ on all BlackBerry smartphones, though it's only available for USers at the moment. Feast your eyes on the links below for more, more, more. Read - BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 release Read - AIM / ICQ for BlackBerry Read - BlackBerry Flip dedicated site Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • BlackBerry KickStart / Pearl 8220's screens: pretty, T-Mobile-y

    Filed under: Software , RIM , T-Mobile Along with the all-new form factor will come an all-new -- well, kinda new -- software build for RIM when it releases the BlackBerry Pearl (or KickStart , or whatever the hell they decide to call it) 8200 series later this year. The most fliptastic of the Pearls will join the Bold in sporting BlackBerry OS 4.6, and shots are surfacing of what exactly that'll look like once it gets grafted onto T-Mobile's WiFi-equipped 8220 model. As one might expect, it looks like it's taking a lot of UI cues already seen and enjoyed on the Bold with the usual T-Mobile twists added in like myFaves support; in particular, we're loving the insanely slick stopwatch display. Too bad we'll use it... oh, never. Cell Phone Signal likes October for the 8220's release, which runs the risk of burying it beneath the Dream -- maybe that rumored $50 out-the-door price can move a few, though. That, or overflow once the Dream stock dries up. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • BlackBerry KickStart just another piece in the Pearl puzzle?

    Filed under: Handsets , RIM We've been calling the KickStart "KickStart" for so long now, it's going to be awfully difficult to call it anything else -- even if it's just another name already in RIM's toolbox. Cell Phone Signal seems to have stumbled across some sort of internal documentation that suggests that the first BlackBerry flip on the market will go by the "Pearl" name, an admittedly logical choice considering its seemingly consumer-oriented slant. As we've heard before, there'll be both GPS (8210) and WiFi (8220) versions on tap; the document actually indicates that only the 8220 will go by Pearl, we'd be hard pressed to believe that they'd break it up in such a nonsensical way. But seriously, RIM, think twice about ditching the KickStart moniker, yeah? Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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