BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Smartphone, Black (T-Mobile) - Harry Potter 6 Books

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2860 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Black
• Brand: BlackBerry
• Model: 8220 Flip
• Released on: 2008-10-13

Features

• Blackberry's first clamshell smartphone with dual LCD screens and SureType hybrid numeric/QWERTY keypad
• Wi-Fi capabilities for T-Mobile's Hotspot @Home service for unlimited nationwide calls; compatible with T-Mobile's MyFaves service
• Connect with up to 10 personal and work email accounts; 2.0-megapixel camera; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD memory expansion up to 16 GB
• Up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time
• Includes: handset, battery, charger, wired stereo handsfree headset, USB cable, Blackberry Desktop software, 256 MB MicroSD memory card, quick start guide

Amazon.com Product Description
Enjoy all the communication and connectivity features you've come to expect from a Blackberry phone--including email served up by the BlackBerry Internet Service and a full menu of messaging options (SMS, MMS, and IM)--in a new clamshell form factor. The Blackberry Flip from T-Mobile also brings support for T-Mobile's Hotspot @Home service, which enables you to make calls from the GSM cellular network and then seamlessly transfer them to your Wi-Fi network.

Quickly and accurately type messages thanks to the SureType enhanced predictive text typing technology.

The Blackberry Flip features the SureType hybrid alpha-numeric/QWERTY keyboard found on Blackberry Pearl phones, which makes typing messages and dialing numbers fast and easy. It also includes a 2-megapixel camera with video capture, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, microSD memory expansion (up to 16 GB), EDGE data connectivity, voice-activated dialing, and up to 4 hours of talk time.

T-Mobile Service
With T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service, you'll effortlessly transition between Wi-Fi calling and T-Mobile's wireless network while you talk. You can get unlimited nationwide calls over Wi-Fi--at home via your wireless router or at any U.S. T-Mobile HotSpot. You can also use the HotSpot @Home service via most open, or unsecured, wireless routers, as well as any secured wireless router for which you have access to the password from the owner. This phone is compatible with the 802.11b/g Wi-Fi standard as well as with Wi-Fi security protocols including WEP ,WPA and WPA2. Whenever you're not using a Wi-Fi network, this phone works just like a regular mobile phone, using your Whenever Minutes under your T-Mobile voice plan.

Additionally, this mobile phone operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.

This phone also includes compatibility with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.

Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (real songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers quickly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email.

Phone Features
The BlackBerry Flip presents a sophisticated look with a sleek design and a chrome-finished frame surrounding its smooth, luminescent face. Weighing 3.6 ounces, the Flip has two light-sensing LCD screens--an internal 2.3-inch 65K-color screen (240 x 320-pixel resolution) and an external 65K-color screen with a 128 x 160-pixel resolution. The external LCD makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset. It can also display currently playing music track information, and the screen darkens after a pre-assigned time-out duration. The phone has an internal 128 MB memory, which can be expanded via microSD/microSDHC memory cards up to 16 GB in size.

More than just an email companion, the Blackberry Flip also offers a media player, 2.0-megapixel camera, and Wi-Fi connectivity--compatible with T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home. See larger version.

Opening up the clamshell reveals the Blackberry Flip's unique alpha-numeric keypad, which has been brough over from Blackberry's popular Pearl models. Each button on the keypad shares two letters and the unit automatically determines which letter is the intended one based on what it predicts you are trying to spell. This unique predictive text technology, known as SureType, makes the Blackberry Flip's diminutive size possible. SureType also learns the words you use most often, further enhancing your typing speed.

With BlackBerry push technology, you don't need to retrieve your e-mail. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, allowing you to be discreetly notified as new e-mail arrives. Support is also built-in for viewing e-mail attachments (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and PDF formats).

You'll be able to easily access up to 10 supported personal and work email accounts, send and receive text and instant messages, and connect on popular social networking sites with friends, family and co-workers. The DataViz Documents to Go software suite is also preloaded, allowing you to edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset. The BlackBerry Flip is supported on BlackBerry Internet Service, BlackBerry Unite!, BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which provides tight integration with corporate email systems.

Surf the Internet with the BlackBerry Browser, which includes a "Page View" option that displays a full web page on the screen along with a magnifying glass that allows the user to quickly and accurately point and zoom in on a specific area of the web page. It also provides quicker access to Bookmarks and History.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and sending of vCard calendar and contact info. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. With Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), you just say the word and the 8120 can initiate a call with anyone in your contact list. Plus, you can use VAD along with the built-in speakerphone or with a Bluetooth headset for hands-free dialing.

With an advanced media player for displaying pictures, listening to music and watching videos, the Flip is the perfect on-the-go entertainment center. Videos play smoothly on the large internal display, playlists can be managed directly on the handset, and there's an equalizer with 11 preset filters. The BlackBerry Flip also works with the new BlackBerry Media Sync application that makes it easy to sync iTunes digital music collections with the smartphone. It's compatible with a wide range of music file formats, including MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ and AMR-NB as well as MPEG4, WMV, and H.263 video clips.

The external screen displays incoming calls as well as currently playing music tracks and a clock when at rest. See larger version.

The 2-megapixel camera features a 5x digital zoom and flash as well as your choice of three picture sizes and qualities and white balance settings. You can also capture video clips in two formats--normal and small for sending via MMS.

Other features include:

• Instant messaging via popular services including AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Google Talk, and Blackberry Messenger
• SMS text and MMS picture/video messaging
• Support for IMAP/POP3, SMTP email
• Integrates with an existing enterprise email account
• Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g)
• Support for AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server
• Ringtones: polyphonic, MIDI, and MP3
• USB 2.0 connectivity
• Downloadable BlackBerry Maps application provides directions and maps while on the road.
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), DUN (dial-up networking), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The Blackberry Flip weighs 3.6 ounces and measures 2.0 x 3.9 x 0.7 inches. Its 900 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as Wi-Fi 802.11b/g networks using the T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service.

Customer Reviews

Very nice smart phone on the cheap
Let me start off by saying that one of the reasons I'm giving this phone 5 stars is because I got it for $30 at Costco on a new 2 year T-Mobile contract. Second thing: I really wanted an iPhone (still do) but after carefully reviewing how much my family plan from AT&T was going to cost vs. T-mobile, I decided to go with this phone.

I had never owned a BB before getting the Pearl Flip, and was pretty sure I wouldn't like it after reading these reviews. To my surprise, I really, really enjoy using it.

Good things:
- Good, solid phone (reception, sound, call software, etc.)
- I thought I would not like the UI + trackball (I crave the touch screen) but you can tell BB has put 1,000,000s of cumulative hours into this design. I really like the trackball action.
- Bonus: really fine MP3 player (3.5 headphone jack (yes!), excellent sound (better than my son's iPod Touch IMO), very good software)
- Texting on this keyboard is very easy once you get the hang of it (took me ~ 2 days)
- Surprisingly solid video player. I rip content from DVDs using HandBrake on my iMac then transfer them to the SD card)
- Overall fast response from the OS. I have *not* experienced bug-i-ness with this phone. Not with the browser, email client, contacts, nothin'
- Love the size & the flip. Goes in my pocket easy and I don't worry about scratches.
- Screen though small-ish, is beautiful in terms of color & brightness
- WiFi works exceedingly well (good range, no bugs)
- T-Mobile is cheap compared to nasty AT&T contract monthly cost (my family plan + extras is $25 cheaper than AT&T) though I'd have 3G with AT&T
- Email support is just plain sweet
- Google mobile apps rock (maps is the best - even using only cell tower triangulation)

Mediocre things:
- Edge only
- Browser is somewhat lousy compared to Safari on iPhone. Not unusable though.
- Browser via edge is meh (though mobile-oriented web sites work pretty well) - I use Opera Mini when using WiFi and that's actually a pretty darn good browser experience
- Some video gets choppy if you don't compress it down well. Once compressed correctly however, it works well.
- Camera is not great, even for a 2MP smartphone

Bad things:
- No 3G
- No GPS
- Very smudge-y

Summary: I would fight someone who tried to take this phone. Total fisticuffs. For the price it's darn nice comms device. I'm not gettin' the harsh reviews left by some others. I wonder if an OS patch had fixed some bugs before I got it.

not a business phone
I upgraded from 7100 to 8220, I can summarize the great options as follows:

Miner options
VERY slow when placing a call, the tone comes after the number appears on screen.
VERT slow when using on line browser
Generally it is a slow OS.
VERY sensitive it powers down any time, some times when I click it on my holster or while on the meddle of a call.
Address book screen change to calling log screen buy it self when you ready to place a call.
Camera sound can not be muted
Blue tooth has so many restrictions, for example can not communicate with my HP IPAQ
And many more

Great options:
Auto self power down, this great tool powers down and restart by it self even in the meddle of phone call also as a black berry, it takes Only 5 minutes to come back to life.
Auto drop down calls (it is a great option when you have unwanted long call) could happened up to ONLY 3 times per call even after updating the firmware.

T mobile worked hard to replace the 1st one, now I have the same problems with the 2nd one,
Now they will replace the battery.

Every time calling T mobile, I spend around one hour troubleshoot the same garbage and looks like I have to replace it with another brand or another model.

This is very disappointing, frustrating and time waster type of crappy phone.

Perfect Phone!
My last phone was Blackberry Pearl so upgrading to a Blackberry Pearl Flip isn't a big thing but so far the phone has been so satisfying!

The weight is heavier than the regular Pearl but also look much classier. The buttons are bigger and WAY easier to type! You do not need the full QWERTY key board like those Curve or Bold series (which comes out too small to press without any mistakes anyway) with the 'Sure Type' function that comes with Pearl which help you texting very fast.

Read the product summary and you'll see, this phone includes EVERYTHING you need! and I love it!