Research In Motion have announce the introduction of a new style of BlackBerry Smartphone.
The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 - Introducing the Fliphone to the portfolio of business handsets.Combining all standard BlackBerry Smartphone features and network connectivity such as GPRS/EDGE and Wifi (GPS variant to follow) with a new style dual-screen fliphone design - the new BlackBerry Pearl 8220 allows you to screen calls on the small outer screen and gives a clear, large and versatile keyboard combined with a clear LCD screen
The Blackberry 8300 - Codenamed Daytona now known as "The Curve" has been launched by Research In Motion.
The marketing website at http://www.blackberrycurve.com has been released and details of UK network providers will be available shortly.
This handset brings a QWERTY keyboard with the included 'Pearl' navigation system popular in the 8100 and 8800 handsets released earlier this year, as well as the included 2 megapixel camera.
Main Features
* Phone, email, text messaging (SMS and MMS), browser, instant messaging and organizer applications in a single smartphone * 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash * Next-generation media player with audio and video playback in a variety of formats* * High capacity battery * Preloaded with BlackBerry® Maps application** * Trackball navigation system * Dynamic, highly responsive experience when viewing attachments and graphics, browsing the web and running applications * Full QWERTY keyboard * Bluetooth® headset, hands-free and serial port profiles supported * High resolution LCD screen with light sensing technology * Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones * 64 MB of memory and expandable memory via microSD card*** * Quad-band support for 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM™/GPRS and EDGE**** networks