The latest news for you BlackBerry freaks out there is that the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 has now officially arrived at Alltel Wireless, just like it was announced earlier. The device is now available in Alltel retail shops and also online at shopalltel.com.
The Alltel BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8320 comes with a QVGA internal display, 160×128 external LCD display, SureType QWERTY keyboard, 2MP camera with video, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, microSD card expansion and more.
Alltel has the BlackBerry Flip 8230 can now be picked up for $99.99 on a 2-year contract after $70 mail-in-rebate. Check it out at Alltel (you will be asked to enter your zip and then be redirected to the promo page if your zip is in Alltel’s coverage area).
Alltell BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip
Source: IntoMobile
It does not happen always that a manufacturer takes a global model and swaps out a component as significant as a camera for exclusively one carrier, but it seems like this is almost set to occur with T-Mobile USA’s myTouch,or G2, or Magic, or Sapphire, or whatever else it is going to be called in future.
The leaked picture of the back of the carrier-branded handset, as you can see below, very clearly screams out, “5.0”. We infer that this may be referring to sensor res. That would be a marked upgrade from the 3.2MP launching on the Magic everywhere else. Not only that, T-Mobile seems to be putting in active efforts to launch high-megapixel devices across the lineup over the past several months.
This is definitely more solid evidence than a spec sheet, which could be filled with inaccuracies, but we are not making anything official till the phone is actually released.
T-Mobile Sapphire 5MP Camera
Source: EngadgetMobile
Good news for some of you out there – the Samsung a177 is coming in as a bargain-basement GoPhone device. But seeing how carriers are hell-bent on capturing every single market segment with messaging capabilities, they have still managed to pack in a full QWERTY keyboard.
Conveniently, the device’s FCC filing just came out into the open and so we have access to all the gyan available. We know for sure that this one will be EDGE-only, have a camera and a nice patterned back as well.
We hope to see the Samsung a177 texter phone very shortly in the retail market.
AT&T Samsung a177
Source: EngadgetMobile
Sony Ericsson, at a recent press release, launched the latest version of Themes Creator, as part of a new direction in its developer and partner engagement strategy. This more intuitive Themes Creator, an already popular mobile user interface design tool, aims to target developers and consumers who show an interest in creating unique and personalized content for Sony Ericsson mobile phones.
Sony Ericsson’s Themes Creator 4.0 makes the process of creating mobile themes faster and more sophisticated by offering a simplified workflow, different ‘editing levels’ to suit varying stages of technical expertise, and easy import of colour palettes.
This latest version of enables users to create colour combinations that compliment their mobile phone themes. While on Themes Creator, users can also browse hundreds of colour themes from Adobe Kuler and get instant access to the most recent, popular, or highest-rated colour palettes as well.
