The Phone House To Launch More BlackBerries in Spain

December 9, 2008

The Phone House Expands its BlackBerry Smartphones Portfolio in Spain

BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphones will be available at The Phone House this Christmas

Madrid, Spain – The Phone House and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Bold™ and BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip smartphones will be available from The Phone House in December at its 400 stores in Spain.

BlackBerry Bold

Crafted from premium materials that radiate elegance with a dramatic presence, the powerful and intuitive BlackBerry Bold smartphone is designed to provide business professionals and power users with exceptional functionality and performance. It supports tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi®, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities. From its lustrous black exterior, satin chrome finished frame and stylish leatherette backplate, to its stunning display, sophisticated user interface and newly designed full-QWERTY keyboard, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone is a symbol of accomplishment and aspiration.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes with an incredibly vivid display. Its HVGA (480×320 resolution at 217 ppi) colour LCD is fused to the undersurface of the lens, making images leap out with stunning definition and clarity. Pictures are vibrant and razor sharp, while videos play smoothly and web pages, documents, presentations and messages snap with exceptional quality and contrast. The BlackBerry Bold also includes 128 MB Flash memory plus 1 GB on-board storage memory, as well as a microSD/SDHC memory card slot for up to 16GB of additional storage. It features a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability, built-in flash and digital zoom.

BlackBerry Pearl Flip

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone provides flip phone fans with all the power of a BlackBerry smartphone in a fun and familiar design. One quick flip of the handset opens up a world of possibilities with the industry’s leading mobile messaging solution and a wide range of impressive Internet and multimedia capabilities, all in one powerful yet approachable smartphone.

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone features a large SureType® QWERTY keyboard that makes typing messages and dialing numbers fast and easy. It comes with two high-resolution, light-sensing color displays. An external LCD makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset, while the large, 240 x 320 internal LCD displays messages, videos and web pages with impressive detail and contrast. It also comes packed with an abundance of useful features including built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), extending wireless email and data coverage over home Wi-Fi networks, enterprise wireless deployments and Wi-Fi hotspots.

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip features a 2 megapixel camera that includes flash, zoom and video recording* to capture memories while on the move, and an advanced media player for listening to music, watching videos and displaying pictures.

Email and Messaging
Both smartphones work with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, which enables advanced security and IT administration within IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® environments, as well as BlackBerry® Professional Software for small businesses. It also works with BlackBerry® Internet Service, which gives users access to up to 10 supported work or personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts), and the BlackBerry® Unite! software for SOHO and home users. DataViz® Documents to Go® is also preloaded, allowing users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset.

Multimedia to Go
With an advanced media player for listening to music, watching videos and displaying pictures, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip and BlackBerry Bold smartphones are perfect on-the-go entertainment centers.  Videos play smoothly on their large displays and music playlists can be managed directly on the handset; plus there’s an equalizer with 11 preset filters – including “Lounge”, “Jazz” and “Hip Hop” – for customizing audio ranges when using wired headphones or external speakers.  Both smartphones work with the new BlackBerry® Media Sync application that makes it easy to sync iTunes digital music collections with the smartphone** and also feature conveniently accessible microSD/SDHC memory card slots that supports up to 16GB for plenty of additional storage.  High Speed USB 2.0 support allows files to be quickly transferred between a desktop computer and the smartphones and the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager software includes Roxio® Media Manager for BlackBerry® to help users easily manage their music and video files. Roxio Photosuite® 9 LE is also included for creating photo albums and editing pictures on a computer.

BlackBerry smartphones can be bought from any of The Phone House retail stores and online through www.phonehouse.es.

* Video recording on the BlackBerry Pearl Flip requires a microSD memory card, sold separately.

** Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.

About The Phone House (Carphone Warehouse Group)
The Phone House is Europe and Spain’s leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,000 stores in 9 countries of the European continent.

The British multinational arrives in 1997 to Spain, where it has experimented a very important develop, with around 400 communication centers, managed by more than 2,500 professionals

The Phone House (CPW, PLC) reaches an anual revenue of 5,650 millione euros, during the period included form April 1st, 2007 and March 31st, 2008, with a 350 million euros of operative benefit.

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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