The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 by Research In Motion will be offered exclusively by T-Mobile in the United States.
 Research In Motion today unveiled the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone, the first BlackBerry phone to come in a clamshell form factor. The Quad-band GSM/EDGE based BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 offers a sleek design and a chrome-finished frame surrounding its luminescent face. It measures 3.9 by 1.9 by 0.7 inches and weighs in at 3.6 ounces.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 features two high-resolution, light sensing color displays. The external LCD screen shows incoming e-mails, text messages and phone calls, while the internal QVGA LCD screen displays messages, videos and web pages.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 promises excellent voice quality and includes calling features such as Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), support for MP3 ringtones, smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing, call forwarding, voicemail attachment playback and enhanced background noise cancellation. It also features a speakerphone and Bluetooth 2.0 for use with hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits and other peripherals such as a GPS receiver. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 has a claimed battery life of four hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time.
Featuring a SureType QWERTY keyboard, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 provides integrated access to RIM's BlackBerry wireless services. Users can access up to 10 supported personal and work e-mail accounts, send and receive text and instant messages, and connect on popular social networking sites. The DataViz Documents to Go software suite is also preloaded, allowing users to edit Microsoft World, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 also offers a media player. Playlists can be managed directly on the handset and there's an equalizer with 11 preset filters, including "Lounge", "Jazz", and "Hip Hop". The phone works with the new BlackBerry Media Sync application, which is claimed to make it easy to sync iTunes digital music collections with the phone. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 also features a microSD/SDHC memory card slot that supports up to 16GB cards.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 features a 2-megapixel camera with photo light, digital zoom and video recording (requires memory card), BlackBerry Maps turn-by-turn navigation, as well as Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for UMA. Lastly, the smartphone comes with an enhanced HTML browser that displays web pages in either "Column view" or "Page view", and different emulation settings allow users to choose between desktop-style HTML content and the mobile version of web pages. The browser also supports RTSP for watching online streaming video from sites like m.youtube.com.
The RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone will be available in the United States exclusively from T-Mobile beginning this fall in the $150-$200 range. It'll also be available through select carriers in Europe later this year.
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