Cingular and RIM Release BlackBerry 7130c

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Cingular and RIM are featuring the BlackBerry 7130c for consumers—prices that exactly match the new price of the Motorola Q from Verizon. Is out today.

The BlackBerry 7130c will be priced at $200, and Cingular’s BlackBerry Personal Plan will be offered for as low as $30 per month. The plan is designed to run on the BlackBerry Internet Service, not the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Both RIM and Motorola appear to be banking on Americans’ frenzied pursuit of work and family obligations that might require on-the-go e-mail, Web browsing, organizer functions and phones in a single, stylish device. Thus the new BlackBerry, like the Q, is being touted as having a slimmer, narrower phone-like design for the mass consumer market.

The 7130c features smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing, call forwarding, polyphonic and MP3 ring tones, speakerphone and Bluetooth support. The handset will run on Cingular’s EDGE network, and features quad-band GSM functions.

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