Released for T-Mobile, the Blackberry 8220 Pearl Flip is Research In Motion’s first handset with a popular clamshell form factor. While offering a full suite of messaging options just like other BlackBerry devices, the Pearl Flip also impresses us with a sleek appearance, a SureType keyboard and a high-resolution front screen.Needless to say, the main feature of the Pearl Flip is its flip design with chrome-finished frame. The handset measures 3.9" high by 1.9" wide by 0.7" deep and weighs 3.6 ounces, which may be quite big, but relatively lightweight. The Pearl Flip sports a 1.6" exterior display with 65,536 colors and 128x160-pixel resolution for screening calls and previewing messages, while the interior display measures 2.25" and supports 65,536 colors at a 240x320 resolution.
The Pearl Flip continues BlackBerry’s excellent communication features. For email options, it supports push email from POP, IMAP, Exchange (via HTTP), Outlook, and Notes/Domino servers. It also has a spell-check function to help you look for mistakes in emails and memos. Besides, it comes preloaded with six Instant Messaging clients, which are BlackBerry Messenger, AOL, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo, and Windows Live. SMS and MMS messaging are supported as well. To make typing and navigation easy, it uses a pearl-like trackball navigation system and a SureType keyboard with two letters assigned to one button.
Running BlackBerry OS 4.6, the Pearl Flip sports an attachment viewer that opens Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, PDF, JPEG and more. In addition, with the preloaded DataViz Documents To Go, users can edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well.
As for multimedia features, the Pearl Flip comes equipped with a media player with audio and video playback in various formats, including MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, and MIDI music files, and MPEG4, WMV, and H.263 video clips. Using the BlackBerry Media Sync application, you can synchronize your iTune library with your smartphone. It also sports a 2.0-megapixel camera with built-in flash, 5X digital zoom and video recording capabilities. Furthermore, the full HTML web browser supports streaming video such as YouTube clips.
Other than flash memory of 128MB, the smartphone includes a microSD/SDHC card slot for memory expansion up to 16GB. Users will also find a micro USB port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and Bluetooth 2.0 supporting mono and stereo headsets, handsfree and more. One more thing to note is that although the handset has Wi-Fi for making and receiving calls via wireless networks, there is no 3G support.
To sum up, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is fully packed with great email, multimedia and Internet surfing features. Integrating the good functionality in a nice design, it is imaginable that the Pearl Flip 8220 will appeal to a majority of the flip phone fans.
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