It is a new BlackBerry clamshell — a flip phone and codenamed the Kickstart!. We’ve known RIM is planning to launch a flip phone within the year, and we now have the pictures to prove it! As you can see, it uses a SureType keyboard, has an external LCD, and a pretty decent looking internal LCD. It also uses the TrackBall for navigation and does have a camera.

No word on specs, carriers, but we’re hearing a release date is before the end of the year.





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