8220 Pearl Available from Italy’s TIM
Break out the champagne because the BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip has officially gone on sale in Italy. The first clamshell device from Waterloo is being sold for relatively competitive price of 269 € ($372 USD). It’s also currently offered in any color you want as long as it’s black. The only question now is what self-respecting Italian would buy such a device? It’s certainly not those hipsters who wear Diesel jeans, D&G shirts, drive tricked-out Fiat Punto’s, and listen to Duran Duran.
Here’s a breakdown of the specs from TIM’s website.
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi
- 128MB internal flash memory, 1GB microSD card
- OS 4.6
- 900 mAh battery w/ 240 minute talk-time and 336 hours of stand-by
- 240 x 320 internal display, 128 x 160 external display
- 2.0 megapixel camera with flash, zoom, and viedo recording
- Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP/AVCRP , microUSB
- Integrated modem for tethering
- 100 x 50 x 17.5 mm, 102g
Thanks, Joe!
OK, I have a bold now from rogers, but how the hell did this come out before the Bold for ATT. This phone got squeezed out quicker than my lunch burrito.
WTF? Why does RIM hate the US? Yeah, yeah, blame at&t, Tmobile, whoever. I’m just tired of hearing all the news about BB’s available everywhere but in the US…ugh.
Am I the only one that thinks this costs too much? Seriously, for a phone with only Edge I dont think its worth the price.
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 – XPERIA X1a Announced 2008, February Status Available. Released 2008, October Size Dimensions 110.5 x 52.6 x 17 mm Weight 145 g Display Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors Size 800 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches – Full QWERTY keyboard – Optical trackpad Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones, composer Speakerphone Yes – 3.5 mm audio jack Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall Call records Practically unlimited Internal 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM Card slot microSD (TransFlash), buy memory Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps HSCSD No EDGE Yes 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP Infrared port No USB Yes, v2.0 miniUSB Camera Primary 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Features Touch focus Video Yes, VGA@30fps Secondary Videocall camera Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional CPU Qualcomm MSM 7200 528 MHz CPU Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM Browser WAP 2.0/HTML (IE), RSS feeds Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS Games Yes + downloadable Colors Solid Black, Steel Silver GPS Yes, with A-GPS support Java Yes, MIDP 2.0 – MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player – Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer) – Picture editor/blogging – Organizer – T9 – Voice memo/dial Battery Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41) Stand-by Up to 833 h (2G) / Up to 640 h (3G) Talk time Up to 10 h (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)