Research in Motion officially announces the BlackBerry Pearl
Officially, the BlackBerry Pearl is known as the 8100 Smartphone. This phone is apparently as thin as the Motorola RAZR and shorter than the SLVR. For the first time, RIM has put in a mega pixel camera and true multi-media features.
Features
North America: Canada, United States
A full, Flash site has been setup at http://www.blackberrypearl.com/
No official word on pricing, but $199.00 seems to be the price thrown about on the Web. The Pearl should appear in T-Mobile stores next week.
- Phone, email, text messaging (SMS and MMS), browser, instant messaging and organizer applications in a single smartphone
- 1.3 megapixel camera with built-in flash and 5x digital zoom
- Media player with audio and video playback in a variety of formats
- BlackBerry Maps?, the best way to find your way
- Speakerphone and Voice Activated Dialing
- Pearl-like trackball navigation system
- Dynamic, highly responsive experience when viewing attachments and graphics, browsing the web and running applications
- Innovative SureType? keyboard technology
- Bluetooth? headset, hands-free and serial port profiles supported
- High resolution LCD screen with light sensing technology
- Polyphonic, MP3 and MIDI ringtones
- 64 MB of memory and expandable memory via microSD card
- Exceptional battery performance
- Quad-band support for 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM?/GPRS and EDGE networks
