BlackBerry Pearl 8220

The first RIM smartphone to come with a flip design, known until now as BlackBerry KickStart, will in fact be released under the official name of BlackBerry Pearl 8220. Therefore, the upcoming clamshell smartphone will be the fifth device from the Pearl series, which is currently comprised of the following models: BlackBerry 8100, BlackBerry 8110, BlackBerry 8120 and BlackBerry 8130.

Research In Motion has not yet fully presented the new Pearl but, according to CrackBerry, the new smarpthone will be on sale in Canada starting mid-September, offered by Rogers. The price of the ex-KickStart is currently not known, but its' rumored to be of around $50 with a contract agreement. This would make the Pearl 8220 one of the most affordable smartphones ever, even more affordable than Palm's Centro, which has been sold until now in over 2 million units.

If we're to believe a leaked fact sheet with the BlackBerry Pearl 8220, its target is represented by the following categories of users: "young urbanites", "multi-tasking women" and "mobile men". As for the features of the flip smartphone, these are not too different from the ones found in the other Pearl handsets.

Of course, being a clamshell, the new 8220 brings an external display, said to have 160 x 128 pixels and to quickly show incoming calls, messages and so on. Other than that, the handset should pack a 240 x 320 pixels internal display, a SureType QWERTY keyboard, quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, Wi-Fi, a 2 Megapixel camera with flash and video recording, Media player, Bluetooth (probably 2.0 with A2DP), a 3.5mm headset jack, HTML browser, advanced email capabilities, embedded games and 80MB of internal memory, expandable via a microSD or microSDHC card.

Besides being launched in Canada, the Pearl 8220 will also get a US release, at about the same time, via T-Mobile.

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LG KC550 was launched

LG KC550, the latest 5 Megapixel handset unveiled by the South Korean manufacturer, was released today in Romania. The new KC550 is a slider that targets users in need of a mobile phone that can also act as a professional photo camera. Of course, the handset won't actually allow you to take photos at a quality that can beat the one real cameras can offer, but it's still a good "photo tool". The 5 Megapixel camera packed by LG in the KC550 features Schneider-Kreuznach lens, flash, image stabilizer, ISO 800 and video recording (30fps at a 720 x 480 maximum resolution). This camera is quite similar to the one of LG Viewty, a handset well-known for its photographic capabilities.

The rest of the specs the new LG comes with include: a 2.4 inch TFT display with 256K colors, tri-band GSM connectivity, accelerometer and motion sensor (M-toy), Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Music and Video players, FM radio, TV out, email and Web capabilities, 6 pre-installed games and USB. LG KC550 weighs a bit over 100 grams and, when not slid, it measures 96 x 51.4 x 14.3 millimeters. Its battery should be able to keep it going for up to 6 hours in talk-time mode and up to 450 hours in stand-by mode.

With the KC550, LG has equaled Sonny Ericsson when it comes to the number of 5 (or more) Megapixel handsets. The new slider is the fourth LG to have such a camera, after the KG920 (released back in 2006), the Viewty (released in 2007) and the more recent Secret. Coming as one of the lowest-priced 5 Megapixel mobile phones, the new LG KC550 is available as of now in lots of retail stores across Romania. The slider can be bought for prices starting at 850 RON (the equivalent of about $370 or 235 Euros).

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Epoq ESP WP98B, the first watch phone on Windows Mobile

Although wrist-watch a mobile phone is too small to run on Windows Mobile, which was wrong. Epoq ESP WP98B produced by Epoq Multimedia, appears to be the first device of this type. WM His version is 5.0,
And despite the fact that they can not run on it as a normal telephone or Pocket PC, which runs somehow. Otherwise ESP WP98B producer not have said his tiny phone comes with the operating system, right?

In addition to the unusual interface, the new phone clock also offers some features that we can not find in many gadgets this type. Epoq ESP WP98B is powered by a 266 MHz processor ARM926 and offers 128 MB of RAM and a memory card of 512 MB that can be replaced by a 1GB. In addition, the device offers quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS, a 1.45-inch screen with handwriting recognition, Wi-Fi (although in this small screen of the navigation can not be too cool), Bluetooth, media player with support for MP3, MP4, WMV, AVI and 3GP, plus a 1.3 megapixel camera photo. The phone can come see two types of bracelets, a customer's choice: a stainless steel or leather.

Epoq ESP WP98B supports MSN and Skype, as well as 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, turkish, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Arabic.

ESP WP98B dimensions and weight were not announced, but is clearly the device is very small when compared with a simple cell phone.

If you are going to buy Epoq ESP WP98 what can be found on several online retailers (here, for example), the prices of at least $ 600. The only strange phone will be available beginning April 25, so we will have to wait a bit to get their hands on it.

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