Verizon officially announces the new BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230

Today, Verizon announced a new BlackBerry smartphone, the new Pearl Flip 8230, hitting all Verizon stores on June 19. Verizon touts the newest smartphone features high quality 3G connectivity, with email, and other multimedia support.

In terms of other specs, it comes with high-res color display, an external and internal screen, 2.0MP camera on the exterior, video recording as well as flash, and a QWERTY keyboard to facilitate data or text entry. For us music fans, let’s not overlook the built-in media player for audio and video support. In addition, it sports a microSD and SDHC memory slot for expanded memory up to 16GB. Since it is a RIM device, it comes preloaded with some BlackBerry software. For those of us who like to connected at all times, the Pearl Flip 8230 has easy access to prominent social networking websites including Facebook and MySpace, but don’t forget all your IM apps.

Pricing and availability are as follows: the phone itself will be available for $129.99 following a $70 MIR and a new 2 year contract on Verizon. As I previously mentioned, the phone will become available on June 19 (after the Pre and latest iPhone launch) only in the color of silver. Sorry Verizon, but I am much more interested in the Pre, iPhone, and new T-Mobile G1 successor phones coming out this summer.

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