Built-In GPS Makes Navigation Easy With Maps and Audible Step-by-Step Directions
Perfect
Handset for Small Businesses — Especially When Combined With New
BusinessTalk Plans and BlackBerry Professional Software to Create
Complete Voice and Data Solution
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, and
WATERLOO, Ontario — Workers and consumers on the go can now put away
their maps but still easily navigate the fast lane.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the
BlackBerry® Pearl™
8110 smartphone, which includes built-in global positioning system
(GPS) support for location-based applications and services. Combined
with navigation and mapping applications such as AT&T Navigator,
the handset provides turn-by-turn voice and on-screen directions with
colorful 3-D moving maps that can be used in vehicles or while walking.
AT&T Navigator also alerts users through voice and on-screen
prompts to traffic slowdowns and incidents along their programmed
travel route, and it provides customers with the option to choose an
alternative route.
“The BlackBerry Pearl 8110’s stylish design
and consumer features blend well with the productivity features for
managing your day while away from home or the office,” said Michael
Woodward, vice president, Business Voice/Data and Wireless Products,
for AT&T’s wireless unit. “Beyond the BlackBerry Pearl 8110’s
powerful e-mail and messaging capabilities, which keep users on track
with important information while mobile, its new built-in GPS
capabilities — coupled with AT&T Navigator — will keep customers
literally on track when they are getting from Point A to Point B.”
The
small and stylish BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone from AT&T
measures just 4.2 inches by 2.4 inches by 0.5 inches, weighs
approximately 3.2 ounces and is available in a glossy titanium or rich
red finish. It features the popular BlackBerry e-mail and messaging
capabilities, including RIM’s SureType® QWERTY keyboard system for easy
typing and phone dialing — enhanced with word completion and a
spell-checker with a user-customized dictionary. The smartphone
features a display that supports more than 65,000 colors and
automatically adjusts brightness based on surrounding light levels. The
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 also is the first BlackBerry that enables users
to wirelessly download AT&T’s popular — and free — YELLOWPAGES.COM
Mobile application directly from an icon on the smartphone. Customers
can easily find and map local businesses, save favorite listings and
get step-by-step directions to or from any location.
“The
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone maintains the exceptional styling and
sleek form factor of the BlackBerry Pearl franchise,” said Mark
Guibert, vice president, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. “It
expands functionality with richer multimedia capabilities and built-in
GPS while continuing to deliver the full power of the BlackBerry
platform. With value-added services, like AT&T Navigator, AT&T
Mobile Music and AT&T’s global roaming, the BlackBerry Pearl 8110
is an ideal choice for customers who want a new phone that can serve
both business and personal needs.”
The BlackBerry Pearl 8110
also features impressive multimedia capabilities, including an advanced
media player that is ideal for users who want easy access to music and
videos while on the go. It also includes a 2-megapixel camera that
supports video recording,1 a 3.5-mm stereo headset jack, externally
accessible microSD™/SDHC memory slot for additional storage, high speed
USB and Bluetooth® 2.0 with support for headsets, car kits, stereo
headsets and other Bluetooth accessories.
The global
capabilities of the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone from AT&T
utilizes AT&T’s industry-best domestic and international wide area
wireless data coverage. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 is powered by
AT&T’s nationwide2 EDGE network — the largest high speed national
wireless data network in the U.S. — with availability in more than
13,000 cities and towns and along almost 40,000 miles of major
highways. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 can also keep users who are abroad
connected with wireless e-mail, Internet access and other mobile
applications through data services in more countries than any other
U.S. carrier, with data-roaming in more than 145 countries. Customers
can also use the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 to make or receive voice calls
in more than 200 countries.
Pricing and Availability
The
new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone from AT&T is available now at
AT&T retail stores nationwide, via www.att.com and through
AT&T’s business-to-business sales teams for as low as $149.99, with
a two-year contract, unlimited data plan and $39.99 voice plan.
Customers who want personal e-mail access and Web browsing with
BlackBerry® Internet Service can choose the BlackBerry Personal
Unlimited data plan for as low as $30 a month with a qualified voice
contract. Unlimited corporate e-mail and data access via BlackBerry®
Enterprise Server or BlackBerry® Professional Software are available
for as low as $45 a month when a qualified voice plan is also chosen.
Customers who travel overseas can select the BlackBerry International
Unlimited data plan for as low as $65 a month with a qualified voice
plan. AT&T Navigator requires a separate subscription of $9.99 a
month.
The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 also
supports AT&T Mobile Music subscription services and AT&T
unlimited Push To Talk for walkie-talkie-like communications; both
services are an additional $9.99 a month with a qualifying voice plan.
Small business customers also can couple their BlackBerry data plans
with AT&T’s new BusinessTalk voice plans, which start at $60 a
month for five users and 700 Anytime Minutes and can be expanded for
$9.99 a line to accommodate up to 40 users and 20,000 Anytime Minutes.
When combined with BlackBerry Professional Software, BusinessTalk
provides small businesses with a complete voice and data solution.
Companies may also choose BusinessTalk with either unlimited Mobile to
Mobile or Push To Talk features.
1Video recording requires a microSD/SDHC storage card, sold separately.
2Not available in all areas
About AT&T
AT&T
Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its
subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the
providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the
world. Among their offerings are the world’s most advanced IP-based
business communications services and the nation’s leading wireless,
high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets,
AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales
leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and
the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as
communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration
strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and
services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available
at http://www.att.com.
About Research In Motion (RIM)
Research
In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of
innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications
market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and
services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides
platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive
information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and
intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array
of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products
and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM’s portfolio of
award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by
thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry®
wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software
development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing
agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM
operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is
listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock
Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or
www.blackberry.com.
