If you’ve never seen a BlackBerry flip model, it must be because RIM never made one until just now. Research In Motion presented us today the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone, a new approach to the BlackBerry smartphone, with a more popular and fun design.

The new smartphone combines all the BlackBerry mobile solutions we are accustomed too, from messaging capabilities, to Internet and multimedia  features, “all in one powerful yet approachable smartphone,” as RIM described it.

BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 incorporates two-high resolution light-sensing color displays, with an external LCD that makes incoming emails, text messages and phone messages easy to preview, and a large 240 x 320 LCD that offers impressive detail and contrast, all in a sleek design.

As Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO RIM pointed out, the availability of the new flip phone will extend the reach of the BlackBerry platform even further, especially considering the growing popularity of BlackBerry smartphones around the world.

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone offers a wide variety of features, from Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), to support for mp3 ringtones, smart dialing, voicemail attachment playback, enhanced background noise cancellation.

In addition to that, it features a speakerphone and Bluetooth 2.0 for hands-free headsets, as well as a number of Bluetooth peripherals and a GPS receiver. The 900 mAhr battery offers up to four hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time.

The smartphone will become available from wireless carriers around the world starting this fall. T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier for the United States, but pricing details are yet to be made public.