The BlackBerry 8830 from Alltel operates in the United States on Alltel’s CDMA network and comes with an unlocked SIM card slot for international roaming on GSM/GPRS networks.

The new BlackBerry 8830 World Edition from Alltel includes:

• Stereo headset jack and media player with Jump Music capabilities, able to play MP3 and AAC music files, and MPEG4 and H.263 video files
• An intuitive user interface with menus that makes navigation instinctive and fast
• Robust call management features such as smart dialing, speed dialing, and call forwarding
• HTML browser
• BlackBerry Internet Service support - allows access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts
• Support for polyphonic, MP3 and MIDI ring tones
• An ultra-bright, high resolution (320 x 240) landscape display
• Removable battery
• Other voice features including noise cancellation for enhanced audio performance, speaker independent voice recognition for voice activated dialing, dedicated ’send’, ‘end’, and ‘mute’ keys, low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth support