BlackBerry Pearl Flip (BlackBerry KickStart), RIM’s first and only clamshell smartphone, just been officially presented, under the name of BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220.

BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220’s exact release date has not been announced, but RIM says the smartphone will be available in the US first, via T-Mobile, sometime “this fall.” Shortly after, the smartphone will be released in Canada via Rogers.

The 8220 brings the following features: a 240 x 320 pixel internal display, a light-sensing external screen, a 2 MP camera with flash and video recording, a huge SureType QWERTY keyboard, quad-band GSM connectivity with GPRS and EDGE but no 3G, Wi-Fi with UMA support, SIVR (Speaker Independent Voice Recognition) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), BlackBerry Internet Service, BlackBerry Unite!, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Professional Software, full HTML browser, Music player with equalizer, DataViz Documents to Go, Video player, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, microSD and microSDHC cards (up to 16 GB) and a 900 mAh battery is included, capable of lasting up to 4 hours in talk-time mode or up to 14 days in stand-by mode.

BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 weighs only 102 grams (3.6 ounces) and, when not open, it measures 99 x 48 x 17.8 millimeters (3.9 x 1.9 x 0.7 inches).

BlackBerry KickStart (aka Pearl 8220) and Javelin, RIM’s two new smartphones, have not been officially announced by BlackBerry yet. However, they have been recently spotted in new live images, allowing us to make a size comparison between them.

The KickStart is said to be officially presented ahead of the Javelin. Moreover, there are also details about the smartphone’s price – in Canada, for example, the KickStart should be released via Rogers, for prices starting at 149.99 CAD with a three-year contract agreement.

The Javelin is a fashionable BlackBerry smartphone, with a design even more sleek than the one of the Bold, plus a slim and quite small case. Moreover, it’s said that the smartphone is also the most multimedia-oriented RIM-made handset to be built until now, bringing features like a 480 x 360 pixel display, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with flash and auto focus, Wi-Fi and GPS.

BlackBerry Pearl 8220 (aka BlackBerry KickStart) will apparently be more expensive than initially rumored. According to recently leaked images at CrackBerry, Rogers Wireless, seems to have set the price of Pearl 8220 to $149.99 with a contract agreement for three years.

However, the new price is not confirmed by the Canada’s largest mobile carrier.

Being the first ever clamshell smartphone created by Research in Motion, the Pearl 8220 smartphone brings an internal display with 240 x 320 pixel, a external screen with 128 x 160 pixel, a SureType QWERTY keypad, a 2 Megapixel camera with flash, trackball navigation, a 3.5mm headset jack, 80MB of internal memory and a new BlackBerry OS.

BlackBerry Pearl 8220 will also hit the US market, presumably via T-Mobile.