The BlackBerry Kickstart won’t be called Kickstart as it was thought, it will be called the BlackBerry Pearl 8220, and not only for Rogers as it was announced, but now also for T-Mobile. The Pearl 8220’s release date will be in September, which is the predicted Q3 date range.

The Pearl 8220 has dual displays, one outside and an internal one as it is usual on clamshells, it features the SureType QWERTY keyboard which is BlackBerry’s brainchild, has a poor 2 megapixel camera, and will support the 850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz bands (it’s Quad-band), and has Bluetooth.

Furthermore, the new clamshell BlackBerry should retail at US$49.99 under the Talkspot contract, which is a voice over WiFi contract on Rogers, which means that the Pearl 8220 has WiFi as well…hmm.

[via BlackBerry Cool via PhoneMag]

T-Mobile leaked a roadmap where it shows the release dates of the Sony Ericsson TM506 (Q3), BlackBerry Curve Sunset (August 4th, Monday), BlackBerry 8120 Sapphire (Q3), BlackBerry Kickstart (Q4), BlackBerry Bold (Q4/Q1 09), Nokia 1680 (Q3), Motorola ZN5 (Q4), T-Mobile Shadow II (Q3/Q4), Samsung T109 (Q4), an unknown Samsung with a 5 megapixel camera (Q3/Q4), and the HTC Diamond, the first HTC with Google Android Operating System (Q4).

This confirms our story that HTC is releasing the first phone with Google Android on Q4 this year, and showcases the most wanted release dates - Motorola ZN5, BlackBerry Kickstart.

Source: Cellphone Signal via Unwired View