AT&T Customers Go Sleek & Stylish with the New BlackBerry 8800

AT&T Customers Go Sleek & Stylish with the New BlackBerry 8800

Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and AT&T (NYSE: T) today introduced the thinnest BlackBerry handset yet. The BlackBerry® 8800 incorporates a full QWERTY keyboard and offers customers a unique blend of performance and elegance. AT&T will be the first wireless carrier in North America to launch the BlackBerry 8800 when it begins offering it across its wireless retail and business channels on February 21.

The BlackBerry 8800 from AT&T has an exclusive, premium, dark blue finish and AT&T uniquely supports Push To Talk (PTT) on the handset. It features built-in GPS (Global Positioning System), a first for an AT&T-enabled BlackBerry handset. The BlackBerry 8800 also incorporates RIM’s new trackball navigation system for fast and intuitive navigation, as well as a media player and a microSD expandable memory slot for storage of music and videos.

The BlackBerry 8800 offers proven and popular BlackBerry features including support for phone, email, text messaging, web browser, organizer, corporate data applications and more. Operating on AT&T’s high-speed nationwide* EDGE wireless data network, the quad-band BlackBerry 8800 also gives customers the ability to make phone calls in more than 200 countries and access email and other data applications in over 120 countries.**

“The BlackBerry 8800 represents the most innovative design to date for a full keyboard BlackBerry handset,” said Jeff Bradley, vice president, wireless business data services, for AT&T. “It is thin and stylish, and in addition to providing access to work and personal email it offers new features for increased productivity, without compromising the power and functionality that make BlackBerry an outstanding wireless communications tool for our customers.”

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