T-Mobile USA Launches First BlackBerry Flip Phone

T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone — the first BlackBerry flip phone — is now available in the U.S., exclusively from T-Mobile. The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone maintains the popular features and benefits of the BlackBerry Pearl; plus it packs numerous enhancements into the sleek and popular flip design. The spacious keyboard allows easy typing and dialing while the flip design helps protect the large, vibrant internal screen and provides the satisfying finality of ending a call by closing the phone. Customers will also appreciate the external display for previewing calendar reminders, e-mail, text messages and phone calls at a glance. “The flip phone remains the vastly dominant and preferred design for mobile phones in... [read full story]