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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.