Motorola Flipout and Blackberry Curve 9300 Now Available at Rogers

The Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless seems to be on fire this week, with all the new devices that appear listed on its official webpage. After discretely announcing through its community forum RedBoard, that it will add the hot on sale Samsung Galaxy “in the coming weeks”, the carrier enlisted Motorola Flipout and Blackberry Curve 9300 on its website. While there's no official announcement for either of the phone, they can be now ordered from the carrier.

Motorola Flipout can be bought for $29.99 with a three-year service agreement or $374.99 retail. The smartphone is powered by a TI OMAP3410 600MHz processor and runs Android OS 2.1 (Eclair).

It sports a 3.2-megapixel camera with face detection, a 2.8-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 262K colors (320 x 240 pixels resolution), QWERTY keyboard, accelerometer, sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, multi-touch input method, and MOTOBLUR UI v1.5 with Live Widgets.

Blackberry Curve 9300 can be bought for $79.99 with a three-year service agreement or $399.99 retail. The smartphone hasn't been announced officially by RIM yet, which turns the whole thing into a nice surprise for Rogers's customers.

Blackberry Curve 9300 comes with a 2.4-inch TFT display with 65K colors (320 x 240 pixels resolution), QWERTY keyboard, touch-sensitive optical trackpad, HSDPA 3.6Mbps, 2.0-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, 256 MB internal memory, microSD slot for memory card (up to 32GB, 2GB card included)), Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.

The standard bar smartphone measures 109 x 60 x 13.88 mm and weighs 106g (including battery). Unfortunately, the device doesn't come with the latest Blackberry 6.0 OS and a future update is most unlikely to occur. We're still expecting some kind of official statement from RIM, regarding the new Blackberry Curve 9300, which was only rumored until now.

Both smartphones are available starting today and can be ordered from Rogers' website.