BlackBerry Kickstart, the clamshell flip phone? We’re unveiling it to you for the first time!
Are you ready, people? We’ve been holding this info for a while now trying to confirm it, but no more! We have here pictures of a new BlackBerry device. It is a BlackBerry clamshell — a flip phone and codenamed the Kickstart! Let me repeat this. This isn’t fake, this isn’t a hoax. We’ve known RIM is planning to launch a flip phone within the year, and we now have the pictures to prove it! As you can see, it uses a SureType keyboard, has an external LCD, and a pretty decent looking internal LCD. It also uses the TrackBall for navigation and does have a camera. We’re hearing a release date before the end of the year. What do y’all think of it? Hit the gallery for all the pictures of the brand new BlackBerry flip phone!
Click on over to our BlackBerry Kickstart gallery!
Wow looks like a NokiaBerry!!
BG? HSPA?
Whoa…totally unexpected. Looks kinda bulky, but it is different!!
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U freaking genous. Tats y u r bgr
Way 2 go on this
Looks nice…
Did they change the charging port to the type on the Moto V9?
This is the first RIM device I have ever wanted. I just might have to leave winmo and garnet for something more suited to the blackberry UI. I just pray HTC is readying a competitor.
How does this compare in size to the Curve and Pearl?
I would love to know the size, as well. It doesn’t look too big in width or length, but it does look a bit thick. Specs please!!!
ok, what’s on BGR report today…Flashback to iomega, t-mobile launches pretend 3G… flip blackberry? whaaaaa? wait…
no. no no no nononononoNONONONAAAAAAAAAAAgH!!
The only reason people love blackberries are for their keyboards and looks!
this has neither! the keyboard is flush and the looks… it’s bulky and ugly and honey it better lemme tell ya. it better come with three wishes if it looks like that!
(or at least one…)
I still don’t get it! It’s bigger than the pearl! It’s freakin colossal!
BG Thanks. amazing stuff. how wide compared to the Pearl? is it comfortable in the hand, easy to type on? Specs?
Dang, take that iPhone! That will sell like crazy!
you really think it looks good? i think it looks hideous, so hideous that i bet tmob picks it up
That shit is ugly!! But I like RIM and what they bring to the game so I won’t hate just yet.
Beautiful! At last! I love it!
I think it is fairly ugly…
And I am over flips for a while… the 9000 is so sexy though! My next phone will either be the 9000, E71, or QWERTY N series
i dont know if i love it or hate it. lol. any specs on it at all?
BGR on fire today..
fugly a$$ nasty thick as a brick ain’t no jethro tull chunk
if it was 9mm thin? FT Win!
But it looks thick. Yeech.
Meh. It’s OK, I guess. I hate SureType, so I’m not loving it.
But I applaud RIM for continuing to variegate their product line.
Personally, I’m thrilled to see another device with SureType. I’ve gotten very used to it on my Pearl, and I’m not looking forward to having to use a regular QWERTY if/when I buy the 9000…
Looks intresting. This could be what the centro is to Palm . A low cost budget friendly way to get people into blackberry and the crackberry way.
amazing, they even took the pic in a bathroom!
Ok, if this is coming by the end of the year where is a pic of that new nextel iden blackberry coming. I want a ruggidized blackberry !
Umm yea Photo is FAKE first off, and RIM would never make a FLIP if anything they are going after the slider type market
looks like the bottom half of a pearl, only flattened with a hammer so its longer and thinner…..