New BlackBerry Phones Announced

RIM has announced two new BlackBerry phones, the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and the BlackBerry Pearl 3G. Both are upgrades to existing BlackBerry phones.

The BlackBerry Bold 9650 is a CDMA enabled upgrade of BlackBerry Tour, with similar looks and features. It has an optical trackpad, with 512MB phone memory and supports Wi-Fi for 802.11 b/g networks. The BlackBerry Pearl is an upgrade to the BlackBerry Pearl series. The candy-bar designed phone has more phone memory (256MB), 3G support, an optical trackpad, and GPS with Wi-Fi support for 802.11 b/g/n networks with a 360x400 resolution screen. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 is expected to arrive on Sprint and Verizon, while the BlackBerry Pearl 3G Series.