The Hideous BlackBerry Style 9670 Clamshell [Video]

This is that clamshell BlackBerry . It’s a lovely phone-if you end up a Jersey Shore character. The official promo video music-with crap techno music from hell-gives it all away:

Running on OS 6.0, the flipper has two screens-one 2.7-inch QVGA on the inside, and on the surface there’s a 2-inch QVGA. New messages and caller info is displayed on the outer, with the interior being the screen you’d mostly use. Sadly RIM hasn’t used the Torch’s touchscreen tech on the way, but considering this phone is going to be firmly geared toward the young’uns, I imagine that was a realistic pricing decision.

There’s a 5MP camera with flash, GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and is derived with an 8GB microSD card. On sale October 31st at Sprint, it’ll cost $100 after a $100 mail-in rebate. [ Sprint via CrackBerry ]

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. & WATERLOO, Ontario (BUSINESS WIRE), October 18, 2010 – For the more than 100 million U.S. consumers who currently use a flip phone, Sprint (NYSE:S) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM; TSX:RIM) today announced the much-anticipated BlackBerry® Style™ 9670 smartphone. BlackBerry Style is a chic, new flip smartphone featuring a whole QWERTY BlackBerry® keyboard, the most recent BlackBerry® 6 operating system and quite a lot of advanced communications and multimedia capabilities. It is going to be available inside the United states of america only from Sprint beginning on Oct. 31.

The BlackBerry Style encompasses a full QWERTY BlackBerry keyboard that makes email, messaging and real-time chats with BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) incredibly easy. It also comes with many advanced features, including a 5MP camera with flash and support for video recording, built-in GPS for location-based apps and geo-tagging, Wi-Fi® for faster connectivity and extended data coverage, and an expandable memory slot for up to 32GB of additional storage.

” The attractive and compact flip form factor on the BlackBerry Style smartphone makes it quite unique in the BlackBerry lineup,” said Fared Adib, vp – Product Development, Sprint. ” Customers will appreciate that the flip form factor is very easy to exploit for calls, and with an entire QWERTY keyboard, it provides an analogous attractive features enthusiasts have come to expect from their smartphone. Also, with the enhancements available through BlackBerry 6, Sprint customers will love the brand new user interface and the enhanced Web browsing experience.”

The attractive new smartphone includes an optical trackpad for fluid navigation and boasts two large displays, an external screen for quickly viewing notifications and messages, and a high-resolution internal display that makes Web browsing or watching videos a pleasure. The BlackBerry Style smartphone may also be available in two fashionable colors – Steel Grey and Royal Purple.

” The flip form factor appeals to an awfully distinct but sizable set of customers inside the U.S., and we’re pleased to work with Sprint to bring this unique new BlackBerry smartphone to their customers,” said David J. Smith, vp of Product Management, Research In Motion. ” The recent BlackBerry Style smartphone is a feature rich, premium BlackBerry smartphone that makes the proper choice for Sprint customers who love the flip form factor but want advanced smartphone features and a whole QWERTY keyboard.”

First Sprint Smartphone with BlackBerry 6

BlackBerry 6 encompasses a redesigned interface that retains the familiar and trusted features that distinguish the BlackBerry brand, while delivering a fresh, approachable and attractive experience that’s powerful and simple to exploit. It includes expanded messaging capabilities with intuitive features to simplify the management of social networking and RSS feeds (Social Feeds) and gives integrated access to BBM, Facebook®, Twitter™, MySpace™ and diverse instant messaging applications which can be preinstalled on the BlackBerry Style smartphone.

BlackBerry 6 also integrates a new and rich WebKit-based browser that renders HTML Internet sites (in addition as HTML email) quickly and fantastically for an awesome browsing experience. It features tabs for accessing multiple sites simultaneously, mouse-like navigation with the optical trackpad and a zoom feature that intelligently auto-wraps text in a column, while maintaining the position of a page’s key elements for simple viewing and navigation.

Universal search allows users to look through email, messages, contacts, music, videos and more on the smartphone, in addition as extend searches to the web or to test applications on BlackBerry App World™. The BlackBerry Style also features a preinstalled YouTube app and Podcasts app.

Worry-Free Pricing

The BlackBerry Style smartphone might be available nationally on Oct. 31 for $99.99 (after a $100 mail-in rebate) with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement with activation on a Sprint® Business Advantage Messaging and knowledge plan or Everything plan with data. Sprint’s industry-leading Everything Data or Business Advantage Messaging and information plans include unlimited Web, texting and calling on the Nationwide Sprint Network to every mobile in America with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM. Everything Data plans start at $69.99 per 30 days (excluding taxes and surcharges).

With the Sprint Free Guarantee, customers can profit from the BlackBerry Style smartphone for 30 days. If not joyful, customers may return the device within 30 days to get reimbursed for the device purchase and activation fee, get both the early termination and restocking fees waived, and receive an entire refund for the monthly service plan charges.1

Sprint can also be offering customers a chance to reserve the Steel Grey BlackBerry Style smartphone for purchase beginning Tuesday, Oct. 19, while supplies last. The Royal Purple BlackBerry Style smartphone might be available in November.

Customers can reserve their smartphone for purchase at www.sprint.com/bbstyle. Customers who reserve the BlackBerry Style smartphone will probably be in a position to complete their purchase beginning Sunday, Oct. 31, and must complete their purchase no later than 6 p.m. local time on Monday, Nov. 1. In the course of the reservation process, customers will likely be in a position to reserve their new BlackBerry Style smartphone online, pick it up in a Sprint Store and receive the complete retail experience, including Sprint’s Ready Now service.

Application developers could have a gamble to profit more about BlackBerry 6 at Sprint’s 10th annual developer conference. The Sprint Open Developer Conference, Oct. 26-28 in Santa Clara, Calif., is open to all attendees and may feature information on developing applications for a number platforms, including BlackBerry 6. Developers can register for the conference at http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2010.

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