T-Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) today launched the new white BlackBerry Pearl, featuring a stylish new color for the award-winning phone.

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The white BlackBerry Pearl provides the same personal email and Web browsing functionality as the original. With the BlackBerry Pearl, sending an email or chatting through instant messaging is as simple as placing a phone call.

The BlackBerry Pearl is myFaves-enabled, allowing customers to have one-touch access to their favorite five friends and family. In addition to calling, instant messaging and texting, consumers are also just a tap away from sending an email to one of their five myFaves contacts.

The white BlackBerry Pearl is offered exclusively through T-Mobile in the United States and is immediately available at T-Mobile retail stores, select authorized dealers, and online. Key features of the BlackBerry Pearl include:

- BlackBerry Internet Service - allows access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts
- Popular instant messaging clients: AOL, Yahoo! MSN and ICQ
- 1.3-megapixel camera with 3 zoom levels (up to 5X) and built-in flash
- Multimedia player with stereo headset jack with support for MP3 and AAC music files, as well as MPEG4 and H.263 video formats
- High-performance HTML browser for visiting your favorite web sites while on the go
- A newly enhanced version of RIM's popular SureType keyboard technology that makes typing email quick and easy
- An incredibly intuitive user interface with an easy-to-use trackball, dedicated 'menu' and 'escape' keys, and context-sensitive menus that make navigation feel instinctive and fast
- Intuitive call management features such as smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing, and call forwarding
- First-rate phone features with Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), dedicated 'send', 'end', and 'mute' keys, speakerphone, and Bluetooth support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits and Bluetooth peripherals
- Quad-band GSM / GPRS and EDGE network support for international roaming
- BlackBerry Maps – a new application which adds mapping and location-based services to the BlackBerry Pearl. BlackBerry Maps works together with other BlackBerry applications, enabling the user to send maps via email and launch maps from other applications, including contacts in the user's address book
- Support for polyphonic, MP3 and MIDI ringtones
- A large, ultra-bright 240 x 260 px color display that brings images to life
- An innovative light-sensing technology that automatically optimizes the screen, trackball and keyboard lighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments
- 64 MB built-in flash memory, expandable via microSD expansion slot
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server support - integrates with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise environments and features a new set of IT policy controls for IT departments to manage camera and expanded memory usage

- RIM BlackBerry Pearl (White) Specs