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BlackBerry Kickstart – first ever clamshell from BlackBerry maker RIM

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 6:53 PM

 RIM Kickstart is first BlackBerry flip phone

Well shiver me timbers. Who would have thought RIM, the maker of the business-suit BlackBerry handset lineup, would ever make a more consumer-friendly clamshell mobile phone? We sure didn’t.

Enough with the rhetoric. What you see here is purportedly the first-ever flip-phone from RIM – dubbed the “Kickstart.” It’s tiny little thing and sports the compact SureType keyboard that seems like it was intended for a clamshell. BlackBerry scoop-er Boy Genius has posted photos of this new RIM Kickstart handset, which shows off both an internal and external display as well as the trackball that we first saw in the BlackBerry Pearl.

The RIM Kickstart is slated for launch before year’s end, so if you’ve been waiting for a BlackBerry flip phone, your wait is almost over!

RIM Kickstart is first BlackBerry flip phone  RIM Kickstart is first BlackBerry flip phone

Head on over to BGR for the full picture gallery.

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  • Eltawil

    for some reason, I can’t see this getting a lot of attention from any current or prospective blackberry owners. it’s way too big and way too ugly.

  • Russell

    I don’t know Eltawil thinks it’s too ugly or way too big? As if the current blackberry isn’t big or ugly.

    I mean, “kickstart” looks likes fold-up pearl. The keys are the same…

    for some reason, I think Eltawill thinks everything is too big or way too ugly… Maybe projecting one’s general view of about the world.