BlackBerry Pearl official

Right, like you needed RIM to tell you about the Pearl at this point. Ok, well, here it goes: RIM officially announced the BlackBerry Pearl tonight for T-Mobile USA launch on... wait for it... September 12th, and on Rogers in Canada in October. The price wasn't disclosed, but c'mon, don't you trust us? (Psst, it's $199 with service agreement.) Oh, here's the final spec list, just in case you weren't paying attention previously:

• 240 x 260 65k color display

• 1.3 megapixel camera with flash

• 64MB flash and microSD

• Media playback with MP3, AAC, MPEG-4 (h.263)

• Trackball (i.e. the pearl in Pearl)

• Bluetooth 2.0

• SureType keyboard

• quad-band GSM / EDGE

• 4.2 x 2.0 x 0.57 inches (107 x 50 x 14.5mm)

• 3.1 ounces

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[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]