T-Mobile's BlackBerry Pearl 8220 gets unboxed

There's no telling what sort of crazy behind-the-scenes negotiations had to take place in order for our good friend Boy Genius to get his hands on the very first retail T-Mobile-branded BlackBerry 8220 we've seen in the wild -- and let's be honest, the whole unboxing takes on a sexier tone when there's an element of intrigue to it, doesn't it? Mr. Genius flatly pans the thing for having a pair of awful screens and a prototype feel (despite the fact that he's got a final production unit), so odds are the Bold owners out there aren't going to be throwing fits of jealousy any time soon. To top it off, the contents of the box are about as exciting as flannel underwear (we guess it's cool that RIM saw fit to throw in a pair of headphones), so don't expect too much. At least it'll be available in a few colors, right?

[Live Crunch @ Oct 6th 2008 8:50AM]

That's cool!

My wife wants one of those , but I told her just to wait for 2 more weeks and get Tmobile G1 .

[lawyer bird @ Oct 6th 2008 3:51PM]

wait, what's cool? the phone? the post? there's nothing really all that cool here, buddy.

[Nik @ Oct 6th 2008 4:34PM]

You do realize no one cares what your wife wants...

[0megapart!cle @ Oct 6th 2008 9:00AM]

Does BGR have the crappiest servers in the world or what??! Every single time Engadget links to them, they go down. Yesterday, with the Storm pics, the site would take minutes to load each pic (And I am on basically a T-1 line), and the site would error out every couple pics. The site is erroring out now too. Does someone want to put together a collection fund to get BGR a better server farm?

[Jash Sayani @ Oct 6th 2008 9:22AM]

Wooooww!!!! Can I get a hands-on...? Plzzz.. !!!

[webon @ Oct 6th 2008 9:45AM]

why is unboxing so popular? I mean its just a damn box! its not like it'll make the thing any better

[webterractive @ Oct 6th 2008 9:53AM]

I guess RIM must be pulling the plug on this website because it seems to be down. I've tried since 0530 and still no luck.

[Gav @ Oct 6th 2008 11:59AM]

I'll stick with my Bold, thanks.

[D @ Oct 6th 2008 1:24PM]

BGR has been down all weekend and even Monday morning I can't get this page to open up. What gives?

[theguy @ Oct 6th 2008 1:58PM]

they need to get it together at BGR, their site has been down forever!

[Mr Guess @ Oct 7th 2008 12:33AM]

All of the T-Mobile managers got an 8220 last week at their retail summit. There are plenty of these out in the open, just walk into a T-Mobile store and ask the manager to see it, if they are cool they may let you. I played with one today and its just a pearl in flip form with some updated features. Oh and the new "theme" they use is horrible.