The New BlackBerry Pearl Delivers the Full BlackBerry Experience and Powerful New Features in an Amazingly Small Phone

T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM: TSX: RIM) today announced the BlackBerryВ® Pearlв„ў, an unbelievably small, smart and stylish BlackBerry phone that’s as perfect for staying close to your friends and family as it is for a busy day at work. It is the ideal phone for the burgeoning consumer mobile email market, providing the sleekness and multimedia capabilities that consumers seek, while also staying true to the unique BlackBerry experience that people have come to love. Available in the United States exclusively from T-Mobile beginning Tuesday, September 12, the BlackBerry Pearl is the sleekest BlackBerry yet at a mere 4.2” x 1.97” x .57” and weighing just 3.1 ounces.

The end-to-end BlackBerry wireless email solution continues to shine with support for both personal and corporate email accounts, allowing consumers to stay connected to family, friends and work at their convenience. Web browsing is fast and easy thanks to the BlackBerry Pearl’s powerful device platform and T-Mobile’s fast EDGE network.* Voice features and quality are first-rate and the BlackBerry Pearl incorporates a digital camera, multimedia capabilities and an expandable memory slot for the first time. And, of course, ease-of-use remains a top priority. With such smoothly integrated support for phone, email, and an array of other mobile features, the BlackBerry Pearl from T-Mobile is an ideal mobile companion for staying connected to friends, family and life.

“The revolutionary BlackBerry Pearl, available exclusively at T-Mobile, is the first phone that brings together, in a compelling way for consumers, effortless email with the power of a full-featured mobile phone,” said Mike Butler, Chief Marketing Officer, T-Mobile USA. “The BlackBerry Pearl is the ideal phone for bringing mobile email to the more than 150 million people across the country who use e-mail, almost every day, to stay connected to those who matter most.”

“We are extremely proud to introduce the BlackBerry Pearl in the United States together with T-Mobile,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at RIM. “The BlackBerry Pearl is an engineering marvel wrapped in a smooth and stylish exterior. Whether you are talking, typing, reading, listening, or taking pictures, it feels and performs great. More and more mobile phone users are warming to the prospect of wireless email for both their personal and professional lives, and we believe this amazing little BlackBerry phone is just what many consumers have been waiting for.”

The new BlackBerry Pearl from T-Mobile USA includes:

* BlackBerry Internet Serviceв„ў – allows access to up to 10 personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts
* Popular instant messaging clients: AOLВ®, Yahoo!В® MSNВ® and ICQВ®**
* 1.3 megapixel camera with 3 zoom levels (up to 5X) and built-in flash
* Multimedia player with stereo headset jack for MP3 and AAC music files, as well as MPEG4 and H.263 video formats
* High performance HTML browser for visiting your favorite web sites while on the go*
* A newly enhanced version of RIM’s popular SureType™ keyboard technology that makes typing email quick and easy
* An incredibly intuitive user interface with an easy-to-use trackball, dedicated ‘menu’ and ‘escape’ keys, and context-sensitive menus that make navigation feel instinctive and fast
* Intuitive call management features such as smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing, and call forwarding
* First-rate phone features with Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), dedicated ‘send’, ‘end’, and ‘mute’ keys, speakerphone, and BluetoothВ® support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits and Bluetooth peripherals
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE network support for international roaming***
* BlackBerry Maps – a new application which adds mapping and location based services to the BlackBerry Pearl. BlackBerry Maps works together with other BlackBerry applications enabling users to send maps via email and launch maps from other applications, including contacts in your address book
* Support for polyphonic, mp3 and MIDI ring tones **
* A large, ultra-bright 240×260 color display that brings images to life
* An innovative light-sensing technology that automatically optimizes the screen, trackball and keyboard lighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments
* 64MB built-in flash memory, expandable via MicroSD expansion slot
* BlackBerry Enterprise Server™ support – integrates with Microsoft® Exchange, IBM Lotus® Domino® and Novell GroupWise® environments and features a new set of IT policy controls for IT departments to administer camera and expansion memory settings.
* The BlackBerry Pearl from T-Mobile USA is available beginning Tuesday, September 12 solely at T-Mobile retail stores, select authorized dealers, online at www.t-mobile.com, or by calling 1-800-T-MOBILE.

Building on the Treo(TM) 700 family, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the availability of the Palm(R) Treo 700wx smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, adding another Palm EvDO product to Sprint’s (NYSE:S) product offerings.

The Treo 700wx combines a great mobile phone, comprising all the functionality and ease of use for which Treo smartphones are known, with the power and security of Windows Mobile favored by many businesses. Today’s announcement marks the availability of Sprint’s first Windows Mobile Treo smartphone on the Sprint Power Vision(SM) Network, giving its customer base more choices and complementing the Treo 700p smartphone running on the Palm OS(R) platform.

“Palm’s goal is to give our customers more choices to satisfy the growing demands of the mobile work force,” said Tim Roper, vice president, U.S. region, for Palm, Inc. “The Palm user experience combined with ready access to Microsoft’s as well as Good Technology’s world-class email solutions gives mobile professionals a true competitive edge and helps to extend Palm’s reach into the enterprise market.”

“Treo smart devices continue to provide customers with innovation, ease of use and functionality in a stylish form factor,” said Danny Bowman, vice president of product marketing for Sprint. “For customers who prefer to have Microsoft’s Windows operating system applied across all their corporate computing assets, the new Treo 700wx gives users a convenient way to access their business-critical and Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents at broadbandlike download speeds to make just about anyplace a work place.”

Key Productivity Features

The Treo 700wx provides the same great world-class Treo experience and ease of use that customers expect, as well as the following key features:

– Access to Email on the Go: Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP), which includes Direct Push Technology, native S/MIME support, certificate-based authentication to all Exchange data, and remote and local device wipe, is available out-of-the-box giving smartphone users fast, automatic wireless updates of their email, calendar items, contacts and tasks.(1) The Treo 700wx smartphone offers mobile professionals streamlined access to Good Mobile Messaging through an intuitive Get Good application icon, allowing easy over-the-air provisioning.(2) The solution delivers real-time access to push-based email, calendar items, contacts, notes and tasks. The Treo 700wx smartphone also supports Good Mobile Defense for robust security and fleet management, as well as Good Mobile Intranet, giving users access to web-enabled enterprise systems, including sales force automation (SFA), customer relationship management (CRM) and corporate intranets.

– Built-in Dial-up Networking (DUN) Capabilities: Treo 700wx smartphone users can take advantage of broadbandlike EvDO download speeds on their laptop computers by using the new smartphone as a wireless modem via USB technology.(3) This out-of-the-box functionality offers an alternative to Wi-Fi, enabling users to access a high-speed connection in coffee shops, airports or hotels.

– Sprint Mobile Broadband Support: Sprint customers using the Treo 700wx have the benefit of Sprint Power Vision services on the nation’s largest mobile broadband network. The Sprint Power Vision Network offers broadbandlike download data speeds averaging up to 400-700 kbps.(4)

“Mobility today means far more than reading email outside the office,” said Suzan DelBene, corporate vice president of the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft. “People need to be able to access Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, manage their calendars, search the Internet and more with a single device. We are pleased that Sprint and Palm are launching the Treo 700wx to provide their customers with a powerful smartphone that answers the needs of life on the go.”

Benefits of Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition

Palm’s Windows Mobile based Treo smartphones provide customers with a compelling combination of powerful software, an award-winning form factor, and the ease of use long associated with the Palm experience. Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition provides many user advantages when compared with other smartphones:

– Touch screen: Makes surfing websites, gathering data and navigating forms and applications much easier;

– Copy and paste: Additional functionality provides added productivity;

– Built-in viewers and editors: Ability to view and edit Microsoft Word Mobile and Excel(R) Mobile files, and view PowerPoint(R) Mobile and PDF files;

– Software applications: Large number available for Pocket PC Phone Edition; and

– Saving: Ability to save images and sounds from a website.

Additional Treo 700wx Features and Benefits

– Support for On Demand — users can retrieve personalized information for local news, sports, weather, movies and more;

– Device User’s Guide — customers can view the full User’s Guide (located in the Quick Tour and My Treo sections) right from their device, providing convenient access to tips, troubleshooting techniques and how-to instructions;

– 1.3-megapixel camera to shoot crisp, clear digital images and videos;

– 64MB RAM for program execution (5);

– Integrated Bluetooth(R) 1.2 wireless technology for communicating with compatible headsets, car kits, computers and printers equipped with Bluetooth technology;

– Removable battery and non-volatile memory;

– Expansion-card slot (SD, SDIO, and MultiMediaCard compatible); and

– 240×240 transflective (TFT) screen.

Pricing and Availability

The Palm Treo 700wx smartphone from Sprint is available now at Sprint Stores, Sprint business channels and online at www.sprint.com and www.palm.com/store starting at $499.99 after available discounts and promotions.

Local, national, and international audio news from Taldia Inc., featuring hometown newspapers now available on Motorola iRadio service

Motorola iRadio® listeners can now customize their news radio experience by choosing from a wide selection of local, national and international news reports. Available whenever and wherever listeners want to tune in, current news, business and lifestyle stories from local sources will be read by Taldia, Inc.’s voice over professionals and made available on the iRadio network.

The new channels will be powered by Taldia and Taldia’s content partners, including local US newspapers and the Associated Press. The audio content will span business, sports, entertainment, top news, technology, health, U.S. and International events, politics, science and key stories of the day. Localized content will include news from large regional newspapers such as the Orange County Register, as well as from small community papers like the The Eagle (Texas). The announcement adds to Motorola iRadio’s growing collection of local and regional, providing subscribers with a diverse array of coverage and opinions.

“Over the years, terrestrial radio has lost much of its local connection and character as the radio industry has consolidated,” said Dave Ulmer, senior director of marketing, Motorola Digital Media Services. “Motorola iRadio is bringing back local content and making it accessible whenever and wherever you want it, directly from the one device you are never without – your mobile phone.”

“We are excited to bring our client Newspapers and AP content to Motorola iRadio listeners who want their news up-to-date and on-the-go,” said Rys Fairbrother, Taldia founder and president. “This agreement will provide added value for our clients with additional distribution and to iRadio subscribers, who treasure their news as much as their music, and will help iRadio extend the reach of print news into the growing realm of personalized digital audio content.”

“Motorola iRadio is continually looking for new and innovative forms of вЂ?long-tail’ content to add to our service,” said Jeff Stinson, Senior Director, Business Development, Motorola iRadio. “The services provided by companies like Taldia can help content that is not traditionally radio-friendly get heard on the iRadio network.”

Motorola iRadio is the first digital music service to offer a truly seamless listening experience with audio that easily transitions from one location to the next—through the car stereo, home stereo and mobile phone. The service includes a growing library of over 600 channels of music and talk, best-selling audio book content, educational and language courses, self-help programs, local news and weather, classic radio shows, all alongside your personal digital music collection. Motorola iRadio is currently in consumer and partner trials in several major US cities.