The phone is a quad-band EDGE based smartphone that boasts two color displays – the internal with a 240 x 320 LCD screen while the external LCD is capable of previewing incoming emails, text messages and phone calls. The Pearl Flip is Wi-Fi enabled for faster browsing and comes with an interesting feature – Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD). Like most other smartphones in the market, the phone has the usual features built into it.

USA’s T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of the phone, with other carriers around the globe getting the phone soon.

Personally, I’d prefer the bold than the flip.

Mobile Pro software pretty much does everything the desktop version does, only this time on your BlackBerry. According to E*TRADE, the software has:
• Free real-time streaming stock and options quotes
• The ability to trade equities and options, including certain conditional orders
• Brokerage and bank account QuickTransfers, including those from outside financial institutions
• Live watchlists and portfolios
• CompleteView of all E*TRADE accounts on one screen
• Secure transactions backed by the E*TRADE Complete Protection Guarantee

At present this is exclusive to BlackBerry devices including the Curve and the Pearl and E*TRADE hasn’t said anything about bringing the software to any other smartphones yet. I can’t imagine we’ll have to wait too long – this looks absolutely like Windows Mobile (and iPhone) heartland.