Crackberry.com has been covering the Jim Basille keynote where BlackBerry unveiled the new Pearl 8220, and “stated with the Pearl 8220 RIM was the first to crack the smartphone in a flip phone code.”
I don’t know what the “flip phone code” is, but there have been numerous Windows Mobile and Palm OS flip smartphones available through out this century. Microsoft was the only one who actually branded their smartphone operating system as “Smartphone”. Take a look at the Smartphone History website, and you’ll see all of the flip-phone Smartphones available starting in 2003.
Is Blackberry trying to “pull an Apple” with a “Reality Distortion Field” of their own or are they just not aware of The Smartphone Operating System of the early 21st century?
Originally published on Pocketnow on September 11, 2008. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.