Internal ordering systems always seems to be a good source of information for upcoming handset availability. Well, a good source assuming there is an employee ready and willing to leak those screenshots. Thankfully, that seems to be the case with Sprint as of late. And based on that it would appear as if the BlackBerry more »

Alltel Wireless has announced the upcoming availability of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230, which is slightly surprising considering most people expected it to land with Verizon or Sprint first. Anyway, aside from being a CDMA handset, the Pearl Flip 8230 retains most of the same features that we saw with the release of T-Mobile’s (8220) more »

It looks like the first pics of the Verizon Wireless branded Pearl Flip 8230 have surfaced. Of course, other than the one image, which is surprisingly not very blurry, we have little other details. According to the person who posted the image, he is unsure of any available colors aside from the silver.

As for the details of the handset itself, the poster has noted it as being “identical to the T-Mobile version, except of course CDMA version on Verizon.” No real surprise there, but he also noted that it does not have any SIM slot for international roaming. Also unknown is a release date, however some are speculating that we could see an announcement come during CTIA in April.