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Research In Motion (RIM)  has just launched the BlackBerry 8800 smartphone in Russia under the Bee Line brand, following up on a fine contract with British American Tobacco and a batch of BlackBerry 8700s. The sleek and elegant BlackBerry 8800 smartphone is a powerful communications tool that includes premium phone features and advanced email and messaging capabilities. It also includes a full-featured Internet browser, organizer and media player with support for audio and video playback in a variety of formats, as well as support for a wide variety of other mobile applications.

The QWERTY keyboard supports both English and Russian and the handset’s trackball helps users navigate applications. The high resolution LCD display features light sensing technology that automatically adjusts backlighting and presents information and graphics. The BlackBerry 8800 smartphone also features built-in GPS and an expandable memory slot.
The 8800 is a good-featured smarpthone, bringing the following: a 320 x 240 pixels TFT display with 65K colors, trackball navigation, BlackBerry Maps, document viewer (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), email, full HTML browser, Instant Messaging, quad-band GSM connectivity with GPRS and EDGE, Music and Video players, Bluetooth 2.0, handsfree, voice dialing 64MB of Flash memory and microSD card support. There is no photo camera packed in the 8800, but since it’s a business-oriented handset, this can’t actually be considered a drawback. It measures 114 x 66 x 14 millimeters and weighing 134 grams, BlackBerry 8800 comes with a battery capable of providing up to five hours of talk-time or up to 530 hours of stand-by time.