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The rumored list of smartphones headed to Cingular Wireless within the next couple of months is extensive. There's the 3125 Windows flip phone and 8525 slider-keyboard Pocket PC Phone (both HTC built), another Pocket PC in Palm's Treo 750, Nokia's E62 communicator, and HP's long-delayed hw6940.

Information - apparently inadvertently leaked at a developer's design Web site - confirms that Research In Motion's (RIM) new BlackBerry Pearl will, indeed, find a home with America's largest mobile operator, sometime after it ships from T-Mobile this week. Pearl is RIM's first BlackBerry with a built-in camera for picture and video as well as music-playing capabilities.

The estimated time of arrival, according to the blog endgaget (see top below), which reported the leak, is the fourth quarter.

It appears Cingular will call its version of Pearl by its model number, the 8100, with a 'c' tacked on - the BlackBerry 8100c - or it may combine the two into BlackBerry Pearl 8100c. The Cingular edition will also sport some slight cosmetic differences plus built in support for push-to-talk.

The new BlackBerry, a real paradigm shift for the company with its multimedia features, is built in the mold of RIM's 7100 series, which means it is more smartphone than models like the PDA-like 8700 series, for example. So Pearl nixes the traditional BlackBerry QWERTY thumb-keyboard for a keypad/keyboard combo that merges numbers and text onto each button. Click here for more details about Pearl.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a BlackBerry without support for RIM’s push e-mail and data access solutions.

Last week, Samsung demonstrated a compact Windows Smartphone - the SGH-i600 (code-named BlackJack) - with a QWERTY thumb-keyboard that seems integrate everything but the kitchen sink. Over the weekend, this Q-killer was listed right alongside the BlackBerry 8100c, as the SGH-i607, on the design site.

With a possible Q3 release, the SGH-i607 could put nearly everything from the SGH-i600, except for Wi-Fi (it seems), into Cingular subscriber's hands. This would include quad-band GSM/GSRS/EDGE, UTMS/HSDPA high-speed broadband, and Bluetooth radios. Cingular has been rolling out its 3G network for the past year.

Some additional features of the may SGH-i607 include a microSD slot for up to 2 GB of extra storage, 128 MB of ROM, 64 MB of RAM, a Texas Instruments OMAP 1710 processor, and a 2.3-inch, QVGA (320 x 240) and 65k color display. On the back is a 1.3 megapixel camera with a second in front for video calling.

Learn more about the SGH-i600 here.