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Verizon Wireless has just become the latest carrier to add some new pink BlackBerry models. The new additions to the Verizon lineup will be the Curve 8330 and the Pearl 8130. Features of both will be the same as their current silver counterparts and according to Verizon “the hip, pink colors give students added flair when they are at school or interviewing for an internship or job,” of course we would most likely suggest leaving your BlackBerry at home or in the car while interviewing, regardless of the color.

Anyway the pink Curve 8330 and the pink Pearl 8130 are currently available for order online, and will be in retail stores beginning August 15. The Curve 8330 will retail for $99.99 and the Pearl 8130 will be $79.99. Pricing for both models comes after a $70 mail-in-rebate and along with the standard two-year agreement.

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Google Maps is experimenting with speech recognition technology for its mobile users. The lucky guinea pigs are owners of the Blackberry Pearl 8110, 8120, and 8130 in the US. This is the same voice search technology that they use in their free directory service, GOOG-411.

This service proves to be very useful for many mobile users who lack the time or patience to type the long names of the places they want to go to. It will hopefully also add a level if safety as it could help to keep peoples hands and eyes off their phones and on the road, because even knowing the danger people still insist on using a mobile phone while driving. Here are the simple steps:

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Alltel has officially added the red BlackBerry Pearl 8130 to its lineup. The red 8130 joins the ‘regular’ amethyst model and carries the same features. The Pearl offers a 2-megapixel camera with flash and video, GPS and mapping, Bluetooth and microSD card slot. The red Pearl 8130 is currently available and retails for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in-rebate along with a 2-year agreement.

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Bell is currently running a new promotion, offering four BlackBerry 8703e smartphones with the purchase of either a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition or BlackBerry Pearl 8130 smartphone. This offer also extends to sharing the monthly data plans, for an additional $20 per user the data plans can be shared. The data plans range in size from 4MB per month for $25 up to 1GB per month for $100. This buy-one-get-four offer is available through March 31, 2008.

Read [Bell] Via [WirelessInfo.com]

Lately is seems like every hot smartphone is going pink, just recently we saw the Centro change color, now Verizon becomes the latest with their pink Blackberry Pearl 8130. This one however does not come as much of a surprise, we all knew it was coming, but now its officially available. If the pink Pearl is for you go ahead and grab yours for $149.99, along with a 2-year agreement.

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In typical Valentines Day anticipation we are beginning to see a whole range of pink gadgets coming. The latest addition comes from Verizon in the form of the Blackberry Pearl 8130. The specs will be the same as the regular silver 8130 which includes Broadband Access Connect, built-in GPS, 2-megapixel camera with flash, video capture, microSD storage and Bluetooth.

The Pink 8130 is not officially for sale yet, currently its just listed on their upcoming handsets page, however the rumored date is January 28.

Product [Verizon] Via [PhoneMag]