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BlackBerry BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip Black Smartphone

BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip Black Smartphone
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Review: RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Smart Phone

BlackBerry users finally get a good-looking clamshell, but the keyboard and other features fall short.

Research in Motion has finally released a BlackBerry for the clamshell crowd. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, as its name suggests, grafts the standard Pearl's modified 20-key QWERTY layout and SureType predictive text-entry technology onto a flip phone, with some nice design touches. It's a respectable effort, but I can't help wondering whether such a phone will ever work exceedingly well for people who heavily use of their handsets for e-mail and text messaging.

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