At the aforementioned RIM shindig there was what would otherwise be a throwaway slide featuring the front of a white BlackBerry Pearl Flip, apparently the same one we saw back in September. A picture of a Verizon BlackBerry 8230 in silver recently popped up, and this looks to be the very same CDMA Pearl Flip. Mobile World Congress is coming up next week, but all the RIM folks were telling me not to expect too much BlackBerry news there. Maybe CTIA Wireless in April…?
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement.
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