RIM Announces Its New Blackberry Model

Following the release of the much hyped iPhone, Research in Motion, another leading manufacturer of smart phones, best known for its Blackberry cell phones, has announced its newest smart phone, the Blackberry 8820.

The Blackberry 8820 is RIM's thinnest smart phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 320x240 display, trackball navigation, a Global Positioning System (GPS), media player, and an expandable microSD / microSDHC slot which can support up to 32GB.

The Blackberry was first introduced in 1999 and the phone is best known for their email capability that's why the phone is more popular with businessmen. The Blackberry can send and receive e-mail wherever there's a wireless network of cellular phone carriers. All Blackberry comes with a built-in QWERTY keyboard.

Although the Blackberry is competing with the iPhone, in the Associated Press' interview with Mike Lazardis, RIM's president and co-CEO, Lazardis had said that the attention that Apple's iPhone has brought to the smart phone industry has benefited RIM. Lazardis tipped his hat off to Steve Jobs for growing the industry and said that eventually, all phones will be smart phones and the iPhone has accelerated the public's awareness of a smart phone.

The Blackberry 8820 also supports Wi-Fi connectivity and can easily switch between cellular networks and Wi-Fi networks. It is also a quad-band GSM smartphone that supports GPRS and EDGE, unfortunately, like the iPhone, the Blackberry 8820 also doesn't support 3G. Though unlike the iPhone, the Blackberry 8820 has a built-in GPS so you can pinpoint your location anytime, other features that the Blackberry 8820 has over the iPhone is that the 8820 has a removable battery and supports third party applications.