Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry 8820 smartphone. Featuring RIM’s thinnest smartphone design with a full and highly tactile QWERTY keyboard, large and bright display (320 x 240), user-friendly trackball navigation system and best-in-class voice and data functionality, the BlackBerry 8820 also includes built-in GPS, RIM’s latest media player enhancements, and a microSD/microSDHC expandable memory slot that can support current and future generations of microSD memory cards up to 32GB. The BlackBerry 8820 is the first dual-mode BlackBerry handset, combining EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity for data access and voice support through UMA for fixed-mobile convergence service offerings from various wireless carriers around the world.