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Both RIM’s Blackberry Curve 8330 and Blackberry Pearl 8130 smartphones have now pink brothers available for pre-orders at Verizon Wireless, with the shipping date set for August 15. Well, actually the Blackberry Pearl 8130 in hot pink is already available in stores, and the other model is preparing to come out too. The main target sector is students who want to stick to the fashion trends.

Those of you who plan to get one of the 2 Blackberry cell phones can forget about pink case because the entire handsets come in a light pink housing. Blackberry Curve 8330, the smallest and lightest full-QWERTY
BlackBerry smartphone, costs $99.99 if purchased online with a 2-year contract, while the Blackberry Pearl 8130 model has a price of $79.99, both after a $70 mail-in rebate.
The Curve 8330 model has push to talk, web page emailing, multi-tasking, the VZ Navigator with audible turn-by-turn directions, BroadbandAccess Connect, 96MB flash memory, 32MB RAM, and the Blackberry 4.3 Desktop Software with email, phone, SMS, browser, calendar, address book and organizers. In addition, there is support for 10 personal email accounts, remote address book look-up, and mobile Instant Messaging.

Besides these communication capabilities, the handset also has a 2.5-inch LCD display with LED backlit and 65K colors, full QWERTY keyboard, a built-in 2MP camera with flash and video recording, media player, stereo Bluetooth, up to 8GB memory expansion slot, and provides up to 260 minutes of talk time. It measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches at a weight of 4.02 oz.



The other model, Blackberry Pearl 8130, has the same features but it supports up to 4GB memory via a microSD card, and a SureType QWERTY keyboard with 2 keys per button to reduce the form factor, providing 220 minutes of talk time. It doesn’t feature BroadbandAccess Connect. This capability enables laptop connectivity to the Internet via the cell phone using a cable.

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These are the first official pictures with a new Blackberry handheld manager, which some information leaked about a few days ago. The model called BlackBerry Thunder 9500 has an intuitive touch-sensitive interface and runs on a new BlackBerry operating system, sporting a 360 x 480 resolution, and compatible with GSM and EV-DO networks. It supports EDGE/HSDPA and brings a built-in GPS.
Other details include a redesigned Internet browser, a 624 MHz processor, and will be available via Verizon Wireless and Vodafone in Europe.



Infosync wrote about the exclusivity for the two telecommunication networks, and a release date set for September. It is a full touchscreen device and we can assume it will feature also rotation sensor for landscape mode.
According to the rumors, it will come out at a price of $400 with a 2-year contract.

AT&T launched the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Smartphone with GPS capability and mapping applications provided by the telecommunication company such as Navgigator, turn-by-turn voice directions, on-screen directions and impressive colored 3-D moving maps.

The Navigator tells you about slowdowns and incidents detected on your route showing you alternative safe roads.
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 is an already famous Smartphone provided by Research in Motion in glossy titanium or red housing, with the SureType QWERTY keyboard.
It comes with email, messaging, spell checker, a 65K color display with automatic brightness adjustment, AT&T Mobile Music and AT&T's global roaming.

In addition AT&T offers the users a free yellowpages.com Mobile application accessible via the special icon on the phone.
Destined for both personal use and business professionals, the Smartphone has different multimedia features like the media player, a built-in 2MP camera with video recording, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, mciroSD expansion slot for extra storage, USB, and Bluetooth.
You can get the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 from AT&T at a price of $149.99, with a 2-year contract, unlimited data plan and a $39.99 voice plan.

"The BlackBerry Pearl 8110's stylish design and consumer features blend well with the productivity features for managing your day while away from home or the office," said Michael Woodward, vice president, Business Voice/Data and Wireless Products, for AT&T's wireless unit. "Beyond the BlackBerry Pearl 8110's powerful e-mail and messaging capabilities, which keep users on track with important information while mobile, its new built-in GPS capabilities - coupled with AT&T Navigator - will keep customers literally on track when they are getting from Point A to Point B."

The Curve 8330 version of Blackberry Smartphone arrives at Verizon Wireless and will be available in May sporting the silver housing with chrome highlights and featuring Verizon’s high-speed Evolution-Data Optimized network support.
The Smartphone is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard and the VZ Navigator with mapping, audio turn-by-turn directions and access to over 14 million points of interest.

It is the smallest and lightest RIM’s Blackberry but comes with the right capabilities and tools for the business professionals such as a 320 x 240 pixel screen with light sensor to adjust the brightness depending on the light conditions, an intuitive trackball navigation system for easy browsing, background noise cancellation, Speaker Independent Voice Recognition for Voice Activated Dialing, Bluetooth connectivity, stereo handsets support, a built-in 2MP camera with video recorder, self-portrait, flash and 5x zoom, access to Facebook, the 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with dedicated volume controls, USB connectivity, microSD slot for up to 8GB of storage capacity, HTML browser, a 260 minutes talk time battery, and all these in a 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inch handset weighting just 4 ounces.

You will be able to get your hands on it at a price of $269.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new 2-year customer agreement.

Last summer we had no information about the release date and full specification list of the BlackBerry 8820, but now T-Mobile announced it is providing the advanced handset in US for $350.
From the leaked information we had last year, we knew that BlackBerry 8820 will feature Wi-Fi, GPS, EDGE, Bluetooth, card slot and no 3G.

The new information specify the T-Mobile's HotSpot@Home service support which gives the users access to unlimited and free phone calls over the Wi-Fi connectivity, a full QWERTY keyboard, the QVGA display type, music player, and support for 32GB memory cards or 8GB microSD cards.

With the new BlackBerry 8820 you can e-mail your friends, browse the Internet with fast speeds, chat via Instant Messaging on AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, and Google Talk, and synchronize your calendar with Outlook wirelessly.
The handset measures 114 x 66 x 14 mm with a weight of 134 grams and its 65K color display has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The internal memory is of 64MB but there is no camera integrated.

Though, it comes with Organizer, Document Viewer for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF, handfree, voice dial, To-Do list, and a battery that lasts up to five hours.