LIME brings BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 to the Caribbean
New BlackBerry Smartphone Brings the Industry’s Leading Mobile Messaging Solution to Consumers Who Prefer Flip Phones
Wednesday November 12, 2008, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Waterloo, Canada, ON - LIME, the new Caribbean communications business recently launched by Cable & Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the stylish BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone, the first BlackBerry® smartphone to come in a ‘flip’ design, will be available from LIME in countries across the Caribbean in November.
The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip provides flip phone fans with the advanced power of a BlackBerry smartphone in a familiar and fun design. The quad-band EDGE based handset comes with a wide range of powerful features and functionality, including the mobile industry’s leading messaging solution and a wide range of impressive Internet and multimedia capabilities. Thousands of other mobile lifestyle and business applications are also available.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip comes with two high-resolution, light-sensing color displays; an external LCD, which makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset and a large, 240 x 320 internal LCD display for reading messages, watching videos and viewing web pages and photos with impressive detail and contrast.
LIME’s Executive Vice President Commercial, Mariano Doble anticipates that the BlackBerry Pearl Flip will be a popular addition to the line of BlackBerry smartphones already offered by the company. “Flip phones have been a favourite of millions of users around the world and with the BlackBerry Pearl Flip they can finally combine cutting edge functionality with their preferred choice of handset style,” he said.
Mark Guibert, Vice-President Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion also expects the new smartphone to be a hit with consumers. “The BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone is a natural choice for customers who are looking to replace their existing flip phone with something more powerful,” he said.
About the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220
FIRST CLASS PHONE
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone is a top of the line mobile phone that flips open and cradles the face naturally and comfortably during phone calls. It delivers exceptional voice quality and includes many premium phone features, including Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), support for mp3 ring tones, 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 Bluetooth peripherals such as a GPS receiver. The removable/rechargeable 900 mAhr battery provides four hours of talk time and over 14 days of standby time.
MESSAGING POWERHOUSE
Featuring a large SureType® QWERTY keyboard that makes typing messages and dialing numbers fast and easy, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, like all BlackBerry smartphones, provides integrated access to the industry leading BlackBerry wireless services. Users are able to easily access up to 10 supported personal and work email accounts, send and receive text and instant messages, and connect on popular social networking sites with friends, family and co-workers. The DataViz® Documents to Go® software suite is also preloaded, allowing users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is supported on BlackBerry® Internet Service, BlackBerry® Unite!, BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, which provides tight integration with corporate email systems and the security and IT policy controls that enterprise customers require to confidently allow smartphones in their organization.
MULTIMEDIA TO GO
With an advanced media player for displaying pictures, listening to music and watching videos, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone is the perfect on-the-go entertainment center. Videos play smoothly on the large internal display, playlists can be managed directly on the handset and there’s an equalizer with 11 preset filters – including "Lounge", "Jazz" and "Hip Hop" – for customizing audio ranges when using wired headphones or external speakers. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip works with the new BlackBerry® Media Sync application that makes it easy to sync iTunes digital music collections with the smartphone* and it also features a conveniently accessible microSD/SDHC memory card slot that supports up to 16GB for plenty of storage. High Speed USB 2.0 support allows files to be quickly transferred between a desktop computer and the smartphone and the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager software includes Roxio® Media Manager for BlackBerry® to help users easily manage their music and video files. Roxio Photosuite® 9 LE is also included for creating photo albums and editing pictures.
FULL FEATURED FLIP
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone packs an impressive range of features into its compact design, including phone, email, messaging, organizer, browser and multimedia applications, and it can also support thousands of other mobile lifestyle and business applications. It features a 2 megapixel camera with flash, zoom and video recording** to capture memories while on the move. An enhanced HTML browser displays web pages beautifully 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. In addition, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip features built-in Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g).
ACCESSORIES
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone comes with a variety of accessories including a stereo headset, travel charger and USB cable. Additional accessories for BlackBerry smartphones, including holsters and totes, charging pods, premium earphones, Bluetooth headsets and the BlackBerry® Remote Stereo Gateway are available through retail outlets or online at www.shopblackberry.com.
