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BlackBerry Kickstart Pearl 8220

Posted by Joe on August 7, 2008

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Well, so much for the whole Kickstart thing. While many of us thought it was a quality name for RIM’s first flip phone offering, it appears the name is dead. Documentation suggests that they will go with the ol’ trusty name of Pearl, according to Cell Phone Signal. It will be the Pearl 8220. This actually makes sense in a way. Back in May, we looked at the differences between the Kickstart and the Pearl, and it didn’t amount to much.

The information gets better. According to Kevin, it will launch on Rogers in Canada. Further, Cell Phone Signal says that both T-Mobile and AT&T will get the device in the U.S., despite the carrier’s disfavor with RIM.

Like the latest version of the Pearl, the flip phone will feature an 8220 model, with WiFi for T-Mobile, and an 8210 model, with GPS for AT&T. Still no word on launch date, though. Given the avalanche of information from the past few days, though, you have to figure something is in the offing.

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3 Comments ↓

#7063 DavidB on August 7th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Man, this is pure silliness. Calling the Kickstart (an 82xx device) by the same family name of Pearl (81xx devices) is brain dead on RIM’s part. Will cause confusion all across the consumer markets, since every carrier (USA at least) already has some for or other of Pearl in their lineup. Let’s hope that Rogers page is pre-release goof and not real.

Joe
#7066 Joe on August 8th, 2008 at 7:57 am

I believe that the naming issue had to come from the marketing department. That should explain a lot in itself.

#8125 BBGeekcast: August 8, 2008 - Episode 24 | BB Geeks on November 26th, 2008 at 10:15 am

[...] short on hard news for the BlackBerry. We do sift through a number of rumors, though, including the renaming of the Kickstart to the Pearl. We also get a few new pics of the Kickstart, this time with a red interior. Expect this to come in [...]

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