T-Mobile Officially Launches BlackBerry 8800

T-Mobile and RIM have officially announced what we’ve been predicting for some time, that the BlackBerry 8800 is launching Monday, April 23rd on T-Mobile.com and T-Mobiles over the phone salesline. Retail stores will not carry the phone, at least at first. This is more of a business phone, with the upcoming BlackBerry 8300 being more of a consumer phone. The press release does confirm GPS functionality, but no WiFi in the T-Mobile branded 8800, making it the first BlackBerry from T-Mobile to have integrated GPS. It’s a quad-band GSM phone with EDGE, supports most major IM platforms, MP3 and video playback, full QWERTY keyboard, microSD, Bluetooth 2.0, and most importantly the trackball. No word on price, but Cingular’s version runs $499, but after rebates is $299, so expect to pay around that much.

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