Boy Genius came up with this. It's on his site (link below) as well as our fellow site Engadget Mobile.

Caveat,though. Got a magnifying glass handy?

I say this because this is a grab apparently from a scanned document. The print is tiny, but can be read with some artful squinting, a magnifying glass or perhaps some of both.

In between convention attendance and vacation (which I am supposed to be on now), I've been Photoshopping in a major way to get this image right for you. But you should be able to make some of this stuff out.

The grab is after the jump.

You won't have to wait long for news of BlackBerry 8800 on sale.

Sorry to be a little late on this but I have been on planes most of the day.

Seems like Boy Genius' server logs revealed a couple of accesses to his site from a BlackBerry 8820.

Rather than within RIM- where tracks-covering would surely be implemented- I guess this one's coming from a third-party testing site, a carrier, or both.

What's your bet on?

Google's translation engine ain't exactly perfect, but it seems to get at the edges of facts in a de internet.com article posted today that implies the BlackBerry 8800 will be unveiled February 12 and released sometime in March.

I just love the way Google translates this stuff. It has a rhythmic, almost high-tech pidgin English ring to it.

But you don't want me to talk about the translation. You want me to write about what the translation says.

OK, then, as linked from BlackBerryForums, it reads as such:

Blackberry manufacturer the Research in Motion (RIM) continues to renew his product range. The newest equipment with the type name 8800 is reported euro in March on the German market to come, "on Sunday" (coming expenditure) with reference to persons trusted with the procedures. The newest version of the mobile phone with mobile E-Mail receipt, particularly liked with managers, will be available with T-mobile as well as Vodafone.

Observers expect that the Canadians will present new mobile phone of the public for the first time on the portable radio fair 3GSM in Barcelona in the middle of February. The prices might be with contract below 300 euro, it are said.

As the trade journal continues to write, the successor of the popular Blackberry 8700 receives a larger display and for the first time also with a government inspection department chip for navigation is equipped. The beginner supports the GPRS standard, however not UMTS. The Design with the Blackberry typical editing keyboard equipped 8800 orients itself at the Blackberry Pearl. The equipment held in black completely had brought RIM in the past summer on the market.

Hmm, RIM is a "he."

"Persons trusted with the procedures"- sounds cooler and a vague bit more conspiratorial than "sources say," right?

As good as official without being official yet.

Not only that, but Boy Genius has posted some shots on his site.

The one up there in the upper right is the most straight-on to me.

But wait. Don't you want to see three others:

That's the box it comes in (as if you didn't know.

Interesting presentation, but BG, the glare, dude.

Let's now look at:

The keyboard looks classy.

But I have one overarching question I would like to ask you readers.

You know how many people won't buy a white automobile because they feel that dirt and scratches would appear more conspicious on a white-colored car?

Would you have the same concerns about a white Pearl?

• Processor -312 MHz Processor
• Radio - Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Embedded Memory - 64 MB Flash
• Advanced Noise & Echo Cancellation
• Bluetooth (Stereo, Car Kits, PC, BB & non-BB Connectivity/transfer)
• Voice Activated Dialing
• GPS
• External Charging Contacts
• higher 1400mAh capacity battery. (8700's are 1100mAh)
• Large 320 x 240 LCD,
• Speakerphone
• Media Player
• Micro SD
• Stereo Headset for great media playback.
• WiFi functionality

Essentially what Eric said was that with Skype now enabled on the Sony Ericsson 2950 and the Nokia N73, Skype now feels "encouraged" to push for compatibility with more devices.

Eric added that such efforts as BlackBerry compatibility wouldn't be achieved by internal development efforts,but by what he called "a very extensive, network and community of software partners in the mobile space."

He postulated that this network could help Skype "expand our reach so that the Skype experience" would be available on BlackBerry.

He didn't cite any time frame, however.

Our peeps over at TUAW (The Ultimate Apple Weblog) are linking to a Wall Street Journal post that seems to affirm Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce an Apple branded cell phone today.

This phone is supposed to be marketed by Cingular Wireless.

You know Cingular- the outfit that kept moving the release date for their flavor of BlackBerry Pearl, and unlike T-Mobile, kept almost their entire retail and online distribution channels in the dark.

RIM put up with that because RIM tends to defer lots of marketing and distribution efforts to their carrier partners.

But at Apple, it is difficult to imagine Steve Jobs letting the carriers rule.

So I wonder if he'll be capable of baby-sitting Cingular'd distribution for such a product in a tight-ship way that BlackBerry/RIM was unwilling to because of their "carriers-first" corporate culture?

A post went up earlier on HowardForums, showing what was said to be the BlackBerry 8900c but what prevailing opinion to be shots of the 8800.

My take? Probably the 8800.. but then again why are these testing folks calling this the BlackBerry 8900c?

Update: Some sites have taken these pix down due to leaker's remorse. While I would much rather not do such a thing, I've now taken this opportunity to unleash my "inner artist" and do some rad things to these images in Photoshop.

Decided to let 'er rip. So take a look.

Ever want to do that to your BB? Heh

And finally:

That was fun. Heartcha, P-shop.

BlackBerry Forums Member ojrana has posted what he assures are two photos of the forthcoming white BlackBerry Pearl's back plate.

I have no reason to doubt him, but if he had 3,000- or even 300 BBForum posts to his credit I'd feel even more confident than I am with respect to the three posts he's made so far.

But enough about ojrana. You want to see the photos, right?

Hmm, doesn't look suspect, or even Photoshopped.

One more:

My instincts tell me this is legit. And will be out sometime in February.

With the AT&T-BellSouth merger having been approved late Friday, it is now an article of faith that the Cingular Wireless name will go away sometime in the next several months.

Why? Cingular is the wireless company originally owned by SBC and BellSouth. But, see, SBC bought AT&T and took the name, and the bulked up AT&T's $82 billion purchase of BellSouth was approved by the FCC late Friday.

The question for Blackberry users is, when are we going to see the AT&T logo burned on formerly Cingular-branded devices?

In other words, what about an AT&T logo on the Pearl, forthcoming 8800, or other future models further back in testing?

At RIMarkable, one of Rob's readers reports some insider-y news that this coming fall, SprintNextel will release a new BlackBerry that will bridge Sprint and Nextel's Push-to-Talk Networks.

QChat's main web page (linked below) says the solution enables communication to begin with the press of a Push to Talk button on the handset, as opposed to a standard cellular call. It forms a call by combining separate point-to-point connections between each IP endpoint at a managing entity known as the QChat Applications Server, deployed on the carrier's IP Wide Area Network (WAN.)

"Pressing the Push to Talk button originates a call to the target QChat user and provides the originator with information indicating the availability (presence) of the target user," QChat's website points out. "If the target user is available, the originator receives an immediate indication that the target user is available and the originator can begin speaking. The call originator's voice is then sent through the carrier's network to the target's handset. Initiating a call to a QChat user who is not available will simply result in a negative response tone rather than a busy signal or a voicemail."

The BlackBerry 8800 has not yet been released. At least not to our knowledge.

Well, then maybe this is just to be taken with a grain of salt: but a reader who identified himself as the Administrator of the Spain-based Miblackberry sent me a screen capture from a server log that pointed to an attempt to access his site via a BlackBerry 8800.

Want to see it? Of course you do.

My first call is that this could be some type of mistake.

Still, though, I cannot dismiss the possibility that someone out there has an advance 8800-and is either testing or using it.