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We present some weeks BlackBerry Kickstart, the first terminal of the clamshell from RIM and now here as we receive details on “Flip Experience”, meaning that potential while using the handset.

Basically, are presented only basic features in the images above: screen operation, receiving a text message, displaying an alert. In May all clamshell phones, Kickstart will allow the user to answer open clamshell handsets and end a call-locking. LCD Display’s external caller will display the name and an image associated with it. BlackBerry Kickstart will provide support for email, instant messaging, SMS and MMS, and the external display will display a summary of the messages received.

The launch of the Blackberry 9000 will be on 12 May , at WES 2008 ( Wireless Enterprise Symposium ) , in Florida.

If you are in USA and you are planing to travel in Florida , you will test the new Blackberry at the show’s stall.

After we saw some rumours in a previous post about Blackberry Kickstart , now we have also a feature list .

Blackberry Kickstart represents a new start for RIM , after the old business phones . Kickstart will support quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and it will have a Next Gen SureType keyboard , a 2 megapixels camera , 16 bits LCD screen and a 3.5 mm jack for headsets .

The inner LCD will support a 320 x 240 resolution , while it’s external screen will have a 160 x 128 resolution . The feature list continues with Wi-Fi support and ends with 4.6 operating system .

If you thinked that Blackberry 9000 with touchscreen is special, then you must see the first flap Blackberry :

The phone is called Kickstart and it has a keypad similar to Pearl one , with trackball and two displays . We don’t know it’s feature list or the price , but it looks amazing.

Have you ever wondered how Blackberry launched on the market ? Or how RIM started a very successful business ? Looks like bbgeeks.com had a brilliant idea to build the history of Blackberry phones, from their first cell phone .

Blackberry phones were on the market since 1999 but wasn’t so popular until the 21 century . In November 2004 Research in Motion , the producer of this handsets announced that they have over 2.000.000 clients in all the world . For RIM toked over 5 years to reach the first million customers and just 10 months for the second million . The third million of customers was reached in May 2005 and now it has over 14 millions of customers .

BlackBerry 850

Back to the phones, Blackberry 850 from the image , was available through AOL in 1998 . At that time it featured email, organizer , calendar and Wireless Internet . The features were amazing for it’s time . We must say that 850 worked with just 2 AA batteries .

Blackberry 5810

The next models of Blackberry looked more than the ones we see now , quiting the pager design and making the PDA one . The display was twice bigger , showing now 16 or 20 text lines . OnBoard memory was 8 MB and SRAM was 1MB and used a Li-Ion Battery .

Some sources afirms that 5180 was the first RIM with colored display , even if RIM says that 7210 was the first with colored display . We are getting closer to our time , with handsets from 5000 and 6000 series , targeting GSM customers . Spring and Verizon were becoming more and more popular and then RIM launched Blackberry 6750 , with CDMA support through Verizon Wireless . The phone had 10 MB onboard memory , a very good performance for 2003 .

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