The Blackberry 8220 Pearl is a clamshell designed mobile phone that has been released last October of 2008. It measures one hundred and one mm in height by fifty mm in width by seventeen mm in depth, and has the weight of one hundred and two grams. The Blackberry 8220 Pearl has a huge 2.6 inch screen that has the ability to display up to 65K colours. It is also equipped with trackball navigation for users to easily navigate the menus and features, and it also fitted with full QWERTY keyboard.

The mobile phone comes with a 3.5mm stereo headset jack for users to plug in head phones so they listen to music privately, and it also has a speaker for users to enjoy hands free calls. The phone book of the mobile phone has photo call feature that users can enjoy using. The Blackberry 8220 Pearl has an expandable memory card slot that would enable the user to further increase the memory storage to up to eight gigabytes, using micro SD memory cards.

The mobile phone comes with a two megapixel camera that includes an LED flash that would offer its user, high quality photos and videos. The Blackberry 8220 Pearl comes with a web browser with WLAN Wi-Fi technology for users to be able to surf the internet wirelessly. This mobile phone also has fun and exciting pre installed games that users would love playing, and they can also download any games that they choose. The Blackberry 8220 Pearl also has Blackberry maps for users to have directions to different locations, as to avoid getting lost while travelling.