Alltel Wireless announced  that the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) will be available in retail stores and online at alltel.com beginning in early May. Nothing is really different about this phone on this specific carrier. The clamshell handset has  a 2.3-inch LCD with the larger internal display’s resolution set at 240×320 pixels and a 2 megapixel camera. Moerover, it features the Pearl’s SureType-style QWERTY keyboard.
Alltel’s Pearl Flip is the first CDMA version of the smartphone. The  spec includes a 240×320 (internal, duh) display, a “large†SureType® QWERTY keyboard, trackball navigation, built-in GPS, a 2 MP camera w/ video (requires a MicroSD card), along with “full HTML†browsing, a media player that can sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media Player (aka BlackBerry Media Sync), an expandable memory card slot (microSD/SDHC up to 16GB), and stereo Bluetooth® support.
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Acer has announced not one, but EIGHT new smartphones for the Singapore market. Â So far the available handsets are the dual-SIM DX900, the dual-face DX650, and the X960. The F900 and the M900 are yet to be priced, and the last three phones called F1, L1 and C1 are coming much later in 2009. Â Best known for its laptops, Acer said its smartphones come equipped with powerful processing and memory capabilities.
Here are their names:
DX900:
2.8-inch WVGA touch screen
Samsung SC3 6400 533 MHz Processor
256 MB Flash ROM, 128 MB SDRAM
Dual-SIM with SIM 1 supporting HSDPA / UMTS 2100/1900/850 MHz and quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, and SIM 2 supporting GSM tri-band 900/1800/1900
1.3 megapixel autofocus camera, VGA front camera
Wi-Fi, BT 2.0+EDR, GPS
Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC Phone edition with Spb Mobile Shell v2.1
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There is a good news from Research In Motion for you who are an avid Facebook user and are accessing it from your BlackBerry. Facebook 1.5 for BlackBerry is officially released and available for download! While much of the interface layout looks the same, there’s a new integration with your address book, as well as a few enhancements to how you can interact with your friends.
According to RIM, the new features include:
*Receive instant notifications on your BlackBerry smartphones home screen.
*Send/receive message or wall posts, pokes and friend requests.
*Update your status, view and comment on your friends’ status.
*Share photos from your BlackBerry smartphone with tags/comments and post to Facebook with just one click.
*Connect your Facebook friends with your BlackBerry Address Book – including profile picture integration which brings a whole new meaning to caller ID.
*Stay on top of your life with birthday reminders and event integration into your BlackBerry Calendar.
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More shots of the beautiful HTC Touch Pro2  have shown up on the spider Web.  Touch Pro2 for T-Mobile, to be called the Wing II as a successor to the original T-Mobile Wing, which also happens to be an HTC smartphone. It is confirmed to see HTC’s range-topping Windows Mobile smartphone going live in T-Mobile USA’s. The keyboard is lacking of any European characters, which implies that it won’t be the MDA Vario 5, but a true USA release.  T-Mobile Wing II should be released  on July 22. Here’s hoping the smartphone will not be delayed.
The spec includes  3.8-inch WVGA (480×800) touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, full-duplex speakerphone, WiFi, GPS and that truly trick slide-and-tilt QWERTY keyboard. In  business-functionality’s term, the HTC Touch Pro2 has all the bases covered.
The ever changeable LG Versa has finally made its game-pad module available to buy.  LG Versa game pad module now available for $29.99. The new snap-on game pad  comes in handy now. When you’re in the mood for a bit of entertainment, you can click in the gaming pad. The game pad can be simply snapped-on the back of the phone and it will slide-out. As in picture seen, it features an 8-way directional pad, 4 dedicated gaming buttons.  It pretty much like a Nintendo DSi and fits for  most of us who prefer to stick to a dedicated machine like the Nintendo DS Lite or the Sony PSP.
