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Verizon Wireless released the new Blackberry 8830 World Edition Smartphone all in red, with the Valentine’s Day occasion, to deliver a powerful global wireless experience, targeting the fashionable world-traveling professionals and not only.

With the latest BlackBerry, you have e-mail function and also the possibility to make international calls in Asia, Europe, Australia, Middle East, Africa and North America.

The Smartphone has a high-resolution display, intuitive trackball navigation for e-mails, videos, web sites, and all the other applications, and also a nice QWERTY keyboard perfect for writing e-mails and keep in touch with friends via Instant Messaging.

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Other capabilities include support for EV-DO/GPRS, GSM/GPRS (900/1800 MHz), auto-selection for CDMA/GSM Mode, VZ NavigatorSM for audible turn-by-turn directions in the U.S., Bluetooth Wireless with 2DP, Speaker Independent Voice Recognition for Voice Activated Dialing, media player, and an expandable memory via a microSD/SDHC slot.

The new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Smartphone was launched by Vodafone UK and Research in Motion with the Sat Nav 3D mapping application.

It is a phone equipped with GPS, a built-in 2MP camera with 5x digital zoom and flash, e-mail, Internet browsing, music/video player, organizer, video sharing in 240x180 or 176x144 dimensions, support for microSD/SHDC 8GB cards, the SureType keyboard for easy editing and spellchecker, all these in a small and elegant form factor.

"The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Smartphone is designed for people who want business grade functionality along with advanced multimedia capabilities in a small and stylish package,” said Charmaine Eggberry, Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA at Research In Motion. “The addition of built-in GPS along with Vodafone Sat Nav takes the experience a step further by helping you find your way."

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Alltel Wireless will offer three new cell phones via its www.alltel.com/style online store and in the retail stores starting Q1.
LG Scoop, BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and Samsung Muse are three different handsets each matching to one type of need: music, messaging and fast access to applications like Internet and e-mail.

LG Scoop lets you keep in touch with friends with a nice QWERTY keyboard which is great for chatting and writing long messages, and it provides AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger applications, but also a built-in 1.3MP camera with recording capabilities, supporting Celltop and Bluetooth technology.



The phone comes in three colors: Citrus Orange, Slate Grey and Turquoise Blue, while supporting also the latest Alltel Axcess Voice2TXT service allowing you to read incoming text messages after they were translated from voice mail format.

BlackBerry Pearl 8130 has a new color, red, and brings its known powerful communication tools and multimedia features, in a cool and sleek design.
The phone supports e-mail, GPS, HTML browsing, has a built-in 2MP camera with flash and video recording and offers Bluetooth wireless, microSD slot for some extra memory, while being available for pre-orders on Alltel’s website.



Those that love to listen to the music for hours should look at Samsung Muse, which comes equipped with music features such as dedicated key for ringtones, XM Radio Mobile and a friendly MP3 player.
But besides the music capabilities it features a built-in 2MP camera with video recording capability, GPS function, Stereo Bluetooth, and Alltel’s Mobile Guide as well as PC music streaming via Music Powered by Celltop or Axcess TV and Search.

ColorWare Inc. has started its activity in the color altering for different electronic products in 2000, and has become a leader in the industry being recognized for its high-quality gloss and scratch-resistant polymer-based coatings.

Starting with December 31, the company is offering its services to Blackberry’s owners, changing the look of three models: Curve, Pearl, and 8800.

ColorWare is the only company that uses the X2 Coating technology, which is a scratch-resistant liquid plastic coating that protects the device and is capable to block 99.8% of the UV rays.
This way, the colors don’t fade under direct sun light.

The process involves adding a substrate, the proprietary priming formula, the proprietary color formula and at the end comes the X2 liquid plastic coating.
Electronic devices that use this technology from ColorWare include laptops, phones and even the famous iPhone.

Unfortunately, the BlackBerry 9000 pre-launching was not promoted at large scale as the iPhone, but in this case most of the people know these devices and trust them 100% so maybe there was no need for extreme publicity.



What we know so far from the official specs, is that the new BlackBerry will have a 3G radio built-in and HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) support for the fastest transfers.
A HSDPA device can reach download speeds of 14.4 Mbit/s, being capable to transfer simultaneously voice and data.

If we add the 600MHz Intel XScale processor then we can say that we have the perfect mobile phone that won’t make us problems like lags while working with our basic tasks.
Other characteristics of this model are the touchscreen, possibly multi-touchscreen, we don’t know for sure yet, and the GPS receiver plus 1GB internal memory.
The screen resolution is of 320x480 pixels and I think it’s sufficient for browsing and stuff.

Still no info regarding the built-in camera’s resolution.

So everything sounds wonderful but we’ll have to wait until the next year to have a full press release with all the details including pricing and availability.