Wednesday, February 14, 2007

[r.i.m.] new business black berry 8800

Research In Motion Ltd has begun offering the new BlackBerry 8800:

# measuring 0.55 inches thick;
# tiny trackball on the front of the device (similar to the Pearl;
# full QWERTY keyboard;
# built-in GPS and BlackBerry Maps;
# multi-media player;
# expandable microSD memory slot;
# quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE-enabled;
# Bluetooth 2.0;
# usual voice and data applications, including phone, email, text messaging, web browser, organizer, and multimedia features;
# noise cancellation for better audio performance;
# "speaker independent voice recognition for voice activated dialing;
# high-resolution (320 x 240) landscape display;
# built-in light sensing technology that "automatically adjusts the screen, keyboard and trackball brightness for optimized visibility;"
# media player supporting MP3 and ACC music files, as well as MPEG4 and H.263 video files
stereo headset jack is also available;
# it ships with a rudimentary mapping capability developed in-house by RIM, but lacking some of the more sophisticated navigation and directions offered in other products;
# In the UK available from Vodafone and Orange (T-Mobile and O2 are expected to follow);
# In the US meanwhile, it will be available on AT&T Inc's Cingular network, priced at $300 with a two-year contract commitment.

Incidentally, what is the company trying to do blocking copying of the picture on their site, now it's released? Just for that, I'm not linking to them but
only to this site.

2 comments:

  1. It looks pretty impressive, how easy is it to use for those of us who are not techies?

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  2. Lady Ellee, you'll have to ask Stephen Pollard. I posted it for his benefit.

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