On Wednesday, Airtel and Research in Motion (RIM) will announce the launch of BlackBerry Pearl Flipsmartphone in India. It has been learnt that the product would be priced at Rs 21,990.

The users are allowed to type and dial easily in the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone and the external display of smartphone provides previewing calendar reminders, email, text messages and phone calls.

Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel reported, "The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is a powerful, compact smartphone equipped to deliver a wide range of applications."

A press release informed further, "The combination of RIMs powerful mobile email solution and rich multimedia capabilities, together with support for text messaging, picture messaging, enhanced Web browsing and built-in Wi-Fi, makes the BlackBerry Pearl Flip ideal for balancing a busy lifestyle."

It further added, "Customers can easily share pictures, check the latest sports scores and post on social networking sites, including Facebook, YouTube and MySpace." Frenny Bawa also said that they are very pleased to expand the choice of BlackBerry smartphones in India with the new BlackBerry Pearl Flip together with Airtel.