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The Phone House and RIM Launch the Sleek, New BlackBerry Curve 8900 Smartphone in Spain

BlackBerry Curve 8900 will be available at The Phone House in March

Madrid and Waterloo, Canada - The Phone House and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced that the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 smartphone is now available from The Phone House's 400 stores in Spain, which are managed by more than 2,500 professionals. The new BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone has an expansive feature set that keeps users easily connected with their office, friends and family.

BlackBerry Curve 8900 Smartphone

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone features a wide range of advanced communications and multimedia capabilities, and like all BlackBerry® smartphones, it gives users the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution together with access to a wide range of other mobile business and consumer applications. In addition to being an exceptional phone with powerful email, messaging, organizer, web browser and multimedia applications, the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone features built-in Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g), GPS for location-based applications, Bluetooth® 2.0, a next generation processor (512MHz) and a dazzling hi-resolution display, enabling customers to remain connected, productive and entertained while on the move.

At approximately 110 grams and 109 x 60 x 13.5 millimeters, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is the thinnest full-QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone to date. Its sleek and refined design feels comfortable for both one-handed or two-handed use, and the smartphone's large, striking 2.4 inch HVGA+ display (480x360 resolution) projects vivid color and makes text, pictures and video a pleasure to view. Its newly designed full-QWERTY keyboard allows users to type messages quickly and easily edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the smartphone, using the preloaded DataViz® Documents to Go® software suite.

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone's advanced multimedia features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with variable zoom, auto focus, and a powerful flash that also provides continuous lighting when recording video*. Its full-featured media player supports media streaming and can play all your favorite songs and videos. In addition, it features a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, support for the Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP), dedicated volume controls and a microSD/SDHC expandable memory card slot that supports up to 16GB per card, giving users plenty of storage that is easily interchangeable.

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is a quad-band smartphone -- GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz -- providing global connectivity, fast data access and powerful web browsing. The smartphone can be used with both BlackBerry® Internet Service and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server.

BlackBerry smartphones will be able to be purchased from any of The Phone House retail stores and online through www.phonehouse.es.

* Video recording requires a microSD/SDHC memory card, which may be sold separately.

About The Phone House (Carphone Warehouse Group)
The Phone House is Europe and Spain’s leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,000 stores in 9 countries of the European continent.

The British multinational arrives in 1997 to Spain, where it has experimented a very important develop, with around 400 communication centers, managed by more than 2,500 professionals

The Phone House (CPW, PLC) reaches an anual revenue of 5,650 millione euros, during the period included form April 1st, 2007 and March 31st, 2008, with a 350 million euros of operative benefit.

About Research In Motion (RIM)
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

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