The Carphone Warehouse and Research In Motion announced a strategic relationship to offer the latest range of BlackBerry smartphones directly through its strong network of The Carphone Warehouse outlets located throughout the UK and online through Carphone Warehouse.com . Launching across the UK's 780 stores, The Carphone Warehouse is the only supplier to sell the BlackBerry solution.

Activations available on - O2, Orange, and T-Mobile networks

Available smartphones - 

• BlackBerry Curve- smallest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone, which comes packed with a comprehensive multimedia suite and integrated camera; offers a unique blend of communications, multimedia and web features to provide users with an exceptional mobile companion for both work and leisure.
• BlackBerry 8800- packed with powerful communications capabilities and yet it is incredibly compact, slim and stylish. The BlackBerry 8800 also includes built-in GPS, BlackBerry Maps, a media player, expandable memory slot, and intuitive trackball navigation system.
• BlackBerry Pearl - smallest BlackBerry handset yet at a mere 107mm x 50mm x 14.5mm and weighing just 89 grams. In addition to supporting phone, email, messaging, organizer, web browser and other mobile applications,  it incorporates a digital camera, MP3 player, video player and an expandable memory slot

The Carphone Warehouse has a presence in over ten countries in mainland Europe under the brand Phone House. The Phone House has an intent to work with local country network operators in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland to mirror the retail strategy in the UK.

The Carphone Warehouse customers can take advantage of renowned BlackBerry functionality which includes push-email, phone, SMS and MMS messaging, web browsing, multimedia, calendar & organizer capabilities as well as access to thousands of business and lifestyle applications.

Connection through the BlackBerry Internet Service supports up to 10 personal email accounts, including popular ISP email accounts such as TalkTalk, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, NTL and Virgin Media. Customers can also connect through their corporate email server with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which integrates with IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, and Novell GroupWise.

For more information, visit Carphone Warehouse

Source: Blackberry press release

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