January 19, 2009

Turkcell and RIM Launch the new BlackBerry Pearl Flip Smartphone in Turkey

The first BlackBerry smartphone to come in the popular flip form factor

Istanbul, Turkey, and Waterloo, Ontario - Turkcell and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM: TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone for customers in Turkey.
The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone harnesses the power of the BlackBerry platform and packs a wide range of useful features into a sleek flip design. Its spacious keyboard allows easy typing and dialing and the flip design opens to a large, vibrant internal display, and provides the satisfying finality of ending a call by closing the phone. Customers will also appreciate the smartphone's external display for previewing calendar reminders, email, text messages and phone calls at a glance.

The combination of rich multimedia capabilities and RIM’s powerful mobile email solution, together with support for text messaging, picture messaging, enhanced Web browsing and built-in Wi-Fi®, makes the BlackBerry Pearl Flip ideal for balancing a busy lifestyle. Customers can easily share pictures, check the latest sports scores, access the Internet and post on social networking sites, including Facebook®, and MySpace.

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone provides an advanced multimedia experience including a 2.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom, flash and video recording, a media player, stereo Bluetooth® support, and an easily accessible expandable memory card slot for up to 16GB of additional storage per card.
Key features of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone from Turkcell include the following*:

• First BlackBerry smartphone to come in the popular flip design
• Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) supporting extended data coverage and fast Web browsing 
• Large SureType® keyboard for easy text entry and phone dialing
• Support for text messaging, picture messaging, popular instant messaging services, personal email (access up to 10 supported email accounts), and corporate email 
• 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, built-in flash and video recording
• Advanced media player for music, video and pictures with full-screen video playback
• Stereo Bluetooth® support (A2DP/AVRCP) and 3.5mm stereo headset jack 
• Media management software including the new BlackBerry® Media Sync application making it quick and easy to sync iTunes digital music with the handset **
• Enhanced HTML browser for high-performance browsing with desktop-style depiction
• Internal QVGA 2.4-inch diagonal display, 320 x 240 pixels and supports 65,000 colors 
• 256 MB microSD card included
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi network support including support for international roaming
• Dimensions: 3.9” x 1.96” x 0.68”
• Weight (including removable battery): 3.6 oz

Please visit www.turkcell.com.tr for other BlackBerry smartphone options or call +90 444 0532 for additional information.
*Use of some device features may require a specific plan and incur separate, additional charges.  Contact Turkcell for rate plan information, charges for features and services, and other details.
**Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.

About Research In Motion (RIM)
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

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