Cingular Rings in Holidays with BlackBerry Pearl

Cingular Rings in Holidays with BlackBerry Pearl

The new BlackBerry® Pearl™ from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) will arrive on the shelves of select Cingular Wireless stores beginning tomorrow – just in time for the holiday shopping season – with an exclusive look and new features, including Cingular-exclusive Push to Talk (PTT) capabilities and a GPS-based wireless navigation(1) service. Customers can now enjoy the benefits of these new features for the BlackBerry Pearl together with easy-to-use phone, email, organizer and browser applications – all in an incredibly small, light and stylish handset.

The BlackBerry Pearl from Cingular operates on the nation’s largest digital voice network – with the fewest dropped calls of any national wireless carrier – and Cingular’s nationwide(2) EDGE network, the largest national high-speed wireless data network in the U.S. The BlackBerry Pearl is the first BlackBerry handset to come with a digital camera, multi-media capabilities and an expandable memory slot, while continuing to provide the full BlackBerry experience that is widely popular throughout the world. Beneath its sleek and stylish exterior, which measures just 4.2″ x 1.97″ x .57″ and weighs only 3.1 ounces, the BlackBerry Pearl from Cingular is a quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE-enabled mobile application powerhouse delivering the fast performance of the latest generation BlackBerry handset platform. The built-in 64MB flash memory is now expandable with a microSD card, giving users plenty more storage for music, pictures and videos.

“The BlackBerry Pearl from Cingular provides a winning combination of business and entertainment-related applications that make it a great device both for work-time and leisure-time use,” said Jeff Bradley, vice president, business data services, for Cingular Wireless. “The iconic yet highly functional design, popular BlackBerry service, and rich music and video features coupled with our Cingular-exclusive capabilities make this a powerful offering that will play well equally in the enterprise and consumer spaces.”

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