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?

Last September, I predicted that after the BlackBerry Pearl debuted on T-Mobile, that the carrier would drop their prices on legacy models with the same form factor.

If anything, I underestimated how much Tmo would do so.

There's one thing dropping prices on legacy models. Facilitating enough rebates so that purchasers will actually make money purchasing these devices is something else.

This comes to light in a current Amazon-T-Mobile promotion for the BlackBerry 7105t.

Buy one, sign up, and between the rebates you'll get instantly and the ones you'll get after several months of being nice and paying your bills on time, you'll be $74.99 richer.

Right after midnight ET this morning, RIM and T-Mobile formally announced the white BlackBerry Pearl. Low as $149.99 with rebates. That's $50 less than the "regular" Pearl.

Announcement is so new, not even linkable yet, so I will update with that as well as when official pictures become available later this a.m. Link below.

And I think you will like this pix.

It's now available at T-Mobile retail stores, authorized dealers, online (probably later today) at www.t-mobile.com, or by calling 1-800-T-MOBILE.

In addition to the "regular" Pearl features, there's a bunch of white accessoriesThe new white BlackBerry Pearl also comes with a complement of white accessories -- stereo headset, travel charger and USB cable -- that are included in the box.

I've been pouring through our server logs, and then counting down the ten most-read BBHub posts of the year.

And now, as we roll out the old year, it is time for #1.

Dating back to August 10, the most frequently eyeballed BBHub post of the year is "T-Mobile's BlackBerry 8100 is Pearl.. Cingular's name will be the..."

At that time, with Pearl still a little more than a month in the future, I suggested that Cingular might take another name for its 8100. I thought they might want to alleviate confusion by picking another moniker for their 8100 flavor.

Time proved, of course, that Cingular thought the Pearl name was just fine for Cingy's and BlackBerry's purposes.

"A Pearl by any other name?"

I've been counting down the ten most read BBBHub posts of 2006.

According to our server logs, #9 was "I'ts Official: RIM Introduces The BlackBerry Pearl."

Post went up on September 7,2006. And to think of it, last night in a restaurant I saw a woman dig into her handbag, pull a Pearl out, and take pix of her family and friends at her table.

That's my way of saying that this post foretold four months of Pearl sales hotness.

To read this post, click the Read link below.

Pinstacker n8dbb - he of more than 4,100 posts-has heard all the talk that the T-Mobile MyFaves program is only available for the T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl.

But then again, maybe not. He has a Pinstack thread up with five pix of MyFaves being set up, and then running on a T-Mobile BlackBerry 8700g.

Methinks you want to see them.

Methinks you want to click.

And another:

Three more to go:

This next one is real interesting.

Editing MyFaves contact.

And now for:

That's how you get there.

The other day, BBHub reader Branden sent me a pix he took with his T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl.

This is a cold, not-quite-winter scene near Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

Photo is at this place, but it is so timeless. Could be anywhere it is clear and 37 degrees, and the peaceful waters have not yet frozen.

But also what's amazing to me is the clarity ofthe scene Branden got. The reflections are perfect.

Makes you feel you are there, doesn't it? All we need are the migrating birds ahead. Guess they already have done that.

A video recently posted on YouTube by Pinstack displays the experinece you get downloading a video on your BlackBerry Pearl.

The video they chose shows a BlackBerry Pearl user accessing CBS News over T-Mobile, and then downloading and playing a short clip of incoming U.S. House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Let's make like J Geils and see some "freeze frames."

We're getting the link, get it?

Waving the flag, T-Mobile lets you know whose airspace you are in for the task ahead.

The user has selected CBS News mobile feed, which on this day features a clip of Nancy Pelosi. The clip is not playing, but is downloading.

As the clip continues to download, we see a set of navigation instructions appear on the Pearl screen.

The clip has finished downloading and is ready to play.

Pelosi's clip is playing.