We’ve been throwing glimpses of the BlackBerry Style for so prolonged we’re blissful to see it eventually strike a large time: reality. Yes, Sprint and RIM have only done a 9670 QWERTY flip phone central, so if you’ve been failing to squeeze a single, good you’re going to get your chance. This bad boy runs a all brand-new BlackBerry OS6, boasts a 5 megapixel cam, as well as two tall resolution displays (one external, one inner. Other than which. you’ll find built-in GPS and WiFi, as well as a microsSDHC slot for up to 32GB of storage. You’ll be able to preorder starting tomorrow with a boat date of October 31st, and it’ll run you $99 on stipulate after the mail-in remission. Full press release is below. Show full PR textBlackBerry Style 9670, Featuring Compact, Flip Form Factor, Available Nationwide Exclusively from Sprint Beginning on Oct. 31
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OVERLAND PLAYGROUND, Kan. & WATERLOO, Ontario, Oct 18, 2010 (BUSINESS HANDLE — For a some-more than 100 million U.S. consumers who now make use of the flip phone, Sprint and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the much-anticipated BlackBerry(R) Style(TM) 9670 smartphone. BlackBerry Style is an superb, brand-new flip smartphone featuring the full QWERTY BlackBerry(R) set of keys, a new BlackBerry(R) 6 operating system and the wide operation of advanced communications as well as multimedia capabilities. It will be available in the United States usually from Sprint commencement upon Oct. 31.

The BlackBerry Style facilities a full QWERTY BlackBerry set of keys which creates email, messaging as well as real-time chats with BBM(TM) (BlackBerry(R) Messenger) incredibly easy. It additionally comes with most modernized features, together with the 5MP camera with peep as well as await for video recording, built-in GPS for location-based apps and geo-tagging, Wi-Fi(R) for faster connectivity and lengthened data coverage, and an expandable memory slot for up to 32GB of additional storage.

“The pleasing and compress flip form cause on a BlackBerry Style smartphone creates it utterly unique inside of a BlackBerry lineup,” pronounced Fared Adib, clamp president — Product Development, Sprint. “Customers will appreciate that the flip form cause is intensely easy to make use of for calls, and with the full QWERTY keyboard, it provides a same tasteful features enthusiasts have come to design from their smartphone. Also, with a enhancements available by BlackBerry 6, Sprint business will adore the brand-new user interface and the enhanced Web browsing knowledge.”

The tasteful brand-new smartphone includes an visual trackpad for fluid navigation as well as boasts dual large displays, an external screen for quickly observation notifications as well as messages, as well as a high-resolution inner arrangement which creates Web browsing or watching videos the pleasure. The BlackBerry Style smartphone will additionally be available in two fashionable colors — Steel Grey and Royal Purple.

“The flip form cause appeals to the very graphic though large set of consumers in a U.S., and we’re pleased to work with Sprint to move this singular brand-new BlackBerry smartphone to their customers,” pronounced David J. Smith, vice boss of Product Management, Research In Motion. “The brand-new BlackBerry Style smartphone is a feature rich, premium BlackBerry smartphone which creates the undiluted preference for Sprint customers who adore a flip form cause but want modernized smartphone facilities and a full QWERTY keyboard.”

First Sprint Smartphone with BlackBerry 6

BlackBerry 6 facilities a redesigned interface that retains the informed and devoted facilities that heed a BlackBerry brand, whilst delivering a fresh, receptive as well as enchanting knowledge that’s absolute as well as easy to make use of. It includes stretched messaging capabilities with intuitive facilities to simplify a government of amicable networking as well as RSS feeds (Social Feeds) as well as provides integrated entrance to BBM, Facebook(R), Twitter(TM), MySpace(TM) as well as various present messaging applications which are preinstalled on the BlackBerry Style smartphone.

BlackBerry 6 also integrates the brand-new as well as abounding WebKit-based browser which renders HTML Web pages (as good as HTML email) quickly as well as beautifully for the good browsing knowledge. It facilities tabs for accessing mixed sites simultaneously, mouse-like navigation with a optical trackpad as well as a zoom feature that intelligently auto-wraps content in a column, while progressing the chain of the page’s pass elements for easy observation and navigation.

Universal poke allows users to poke by email, messages, contacts, song, videos as well as some-more upon a smartphone, as good as magnify searches to the Internet or to discover applications upon BlackBerry App World(TM). The BlackBerry Style additionally includes the preinstalled YouTube app as well as Podcasts app.

Worry-Free Pricing

The BlackBerry Style smartphone will be accessible nationally on Oct. 31 for $99.99 (after the $100 mail-in rebate) with a brand-new line or authorised ascent as well as two-year use agreement with activation on the Sprint(R) Business Advantage Messaging and Data devise or Everything devise with interpretation. Sprint’s industry-leading Everything Data or Business Advantage Messaging and Data plans embody unlimited Web, texting and job upon the Nationwide Sprint Network to every mobile in America with Any Mobile, Anytime(SM). Everything Data plans begin during $69.99 per month (excluding taxes as well as surcharges).

With the Sprint Free Guarantee, business can take advantage of the BlackBerry Style smartphone for 30 days. If not utterly satisfied, business may lapse the device inside of 30 days to get reimbursed for a device squeeze as well as activation price, get both the early stop and restocking fees waived, and receive a full reinstate for a monthly service devise charges.(1)

Sprint is also charity customers an event to haven the Steel Grey BlackBerry Style smartphone for purchase beginning Tuesday, Oct. 19, while reserve last. The Royal Purple BlackBerry Style smartphone will be available in November.

Customers can haven their smartphone for purchase during www.sprint.com/bbstyle. Customers who reserve a BlackBerry Style smartphone will be means to finish their purchase beginning Sunday, Oct. 31, as well as contingency finish their purchase no after than 6 p.m. internal time on Monday, Nov. 1. Through a advance booking routine, customers will be able to reserve their new BlackBerry Style smartphone online, collect it up in the Sprint Store as well as embrace a full retail knowledge, together with Sprint’s Ready Now use.

Application developers will have the chance to sense more about BlackBerry 6 during Sprint’s 10th annual developer discussion. The Sprint Open Developer Conference, Oct. 26-28 in Santa Clara, Calif., is open to all attendees as well as will underline report on building applications for the range of platforms, including BlackBerry 6. Developers can register for a discussion during http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2010.

About Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel offers the extensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing a leisure of mobility to consumers, businesses as well as government users. Sprint Nextel served more than 48.1 million customers during the finish of a second quarter of 2010 and is widely recognized for building, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, together with the first wireless 4G service from the inhabitant conduit in the United States; offering industry-leading mobile interpretation services, heading prepaid brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, Common Cents Mobile and Assurance Wireless; present inhabitant and general push-to-talk capabilities; as well as the global Tier 1 Internet backbone. With the customer-focused strategy, you can learn some-more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint as well as www.twitter.com/sprint.

About Research In Motion (RIM)

Research In Motion (RIM), a global personality in wireless creation, revolutionized a mobile industry with a key of the BlackBerry(R) resolution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products as well as services have been used by millions of business around a world to stay connected to a people and content that matter many throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and formed in Waterloo, Ontario, EDGE operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed upon a NASDAQ Stock Market /quotes/comstock/15*!rimm/quotes/nls/rimm (RIMM 48.70, +0.01, +0.02%) as well as the Toronto Stock Exchange /quotes/comstock/11t!e:rim (CA:RIM 49.23, 0.00, 0.00%) . For more information, revisit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

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(1)Refund excludes usage not associated with a monthly use devise, premium content, third-party billing, international charges and compared taxes and Sprint surcharges.

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