Airtel and Research in Motion (RIM) have announced the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone in India. This is the first flip phone from RIM in India. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is a powerful, compact smartphone equipped to deliver a wide range of applications. The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone harnesses the power of the BlackBerry platform and packs a wide range of useful features into a sleek flip design.

The combination of RIM’s powerful mobile email solution and rich multimedia capabilities, together with support for text messaging, picture messaging, enhanced Web browsing and built-in Wi-Fi, makes the BlackBerry Pearl Flip ideal phone to have. This phone will be available through Airtel for a price of Rs 21990.

Features of BlackBerry Flip 8220;

• Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) supporting extended data coverage and fast Web browsing.
• Support for text messaging, picture messaging, popular instant messaging services, personal email (access up to 10 supported email accounts), and corporate email.
• 2 MP camera with digital zoom,
• Advanced media player for music, video and pictures
• Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP/AVRCP)
• 3.5mm stereo headset jack.
• Internal QVGA 2.4-inch diagonal display, 320 x 240 pixels and supports 65,000 colors.
• 1GB microSD card included.
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi network support including support for international roaming.
• Dimensions (LxWxD): 101mm x 50 mm x 17.5 mm
• Weight: 102 grams