BlackBerry KickStart and Javelin in New Live Images

BlackBerry KickStart and Javelin in New Live Images

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.
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BlackBerry Pearl 8220 (KickStart) Not That Cheap

BlackBerry Pearl 8220 (KickStart) Not That Cheap

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.
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