First BlackBerry Flip Phone

Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled the first BlackBerry Flip smartphone. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 will be available later this year through wireless operator T-Mobile. The quad-band EDGE based BlackBerry Pearl Flip smart phone weighs only 3.6 ounces with two high-resolution, light-sensing color displays. The external LCD in the BlackBerry makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset. Pearl flip has a large SureType® QWERTY* keyboard like in the earlier Pearl models. It features a 2 megapixel camera with flash, zoom and video recording. The quad-band phone will operate on GSM networks in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and can connect to EDGE.