T-Mobile USA Today has launched the BlackBerry 8700g, which is identical to the 8700c that Cingular launched back in November. The BlackBerry 8700 series is the latest line from Research In Motion and sports the conventional QWERTY keyboard seen on most of the company’s handhelds.

Features of the BlackBerry 8700g include:

• EDGE high-speed data
• 64 MB flash memory and 16 MB SDRAM
• QVGA (320×240) screen
• Quadband GSM
• Intel XScale CPU

T-Mobile is selling the 8700g for $299 after contract and a $50 mail-in rebate.