BlackBerry KickStart: RIM's first flip phone

You may have thought that it would never happen. Well, it looks like you were wrong. RIM has gone and done the unthinkable: The company has developed a clamshell "flip phone" version of the BlackBerry. Known as the KickStart, the device looks somewhat like a regular clamshell device on the outside, though it sports the distinctive BlackBerry keypad and Pearl on the inside. Unfortunately, it's only got EDGE, but rounds out that package with a 2-megapixel camera, WiFi and internal and external QVGA displays. According to the Boy Genius Report, which is usually right on the money, we can expect to see the KickStart on T-Mobile around September.

For more on the KickStart:
- see this Boy Genius Report story