Can't wait to get your hands on RIM's first-ever go at making a clamshell (flip-phone) packed with all the bells and whistles that BlackBerry users get to play with everyday? Of course you can't, neither can we. Aside from being the push-email pioneer's first BlackBerry flip, the BlackBerry 9100 KickStart manages to pack in a quad-band [...]

While many await the US launch of a handful of smartphones from the likes of HTC, Sony Ericsson, Apple, and Nokia, some of you might be looking forward to RIM's first flip-phone - the RIM KickStart. Spy pics of the RIM KickStart in Black (peep the image to your right) surfaced just the day before, [...]

  Well shiver me timbers. Who would have thought RIM, the maker of the business-suit BlackBerry handset lineup, would ever make a more consumer-friendly clamshell mobile phone? We sure didn't. Enough with the rhetoric. What you see here is purportedly the first-ever flip-phone from RIM - dubbed the "Kickstart." It's tiny little thing and sports the compact [...]