Sweet! | BlackBerry Pearl 8100c Smartphone Slate Grey (AT&T)

Well Made | BlackBerry Pearl 8100c Smartphone Slate Grey (AT&T)

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	• BlackBerry Pearl 8100c Smartphone Slate Grey (AT&T) BlackBerry BlackBerry, 2006 average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

T-Mobile 8100 vs. Cingular 8100

If coverage or plans are not an issue there are two reasons to choose the T-Mobile over the Cingular Pearl. 1) T-mobile plan pricing is *a lot* cheaper than Cingular -- 1000 minutes and unlimited internet for $59 TMO compared with $79 plus at Cingular... 2) The TMO interface is much nicer to look at and play with.

Sweet!

I have waited long enough. Being a techie and carrying a $20 (free) phone for over 3 years just didn't seem right. So my change of job prompted me to look for a phone which also has web/email capabilities. I considered strongly the Samsung Blackjack and the Blackberries. The blackjack's look, while cool from a distance, had keys that looked like left-over chicken-pox blisters. The much raved about Blackberry email push technology finally won me over. I had to decide between the pearl and the bigger versions. I read the 8700g and other blackberries are a bit too big for the pocket. So I chose the Pearl. Here's my take:

What I love:
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- Form factor: It is beautiful, it is cute and catchy! It turns heads. Enough said.
- Size: Size is one of the strongest points considering all it does. It neatly slips into a shirt pocket or sits well on the belt.
- Keys: Could be a bit small but I could use it pretty easily though my fingers are bordering on 'butterfingers'.
- Trackball: Awesome! Just don't press it too hard while using it. Just 'roll-it'!. It is great while you have to move around the screen from control to control
- Voice-dialing: Has worked for me very well the 10 or so times I have tried in my van on the road and off. You have to first choose the voice dialing option from the list of icons on the main menu. I read you can assign a menu item to a key; this would eliminate some of the fumbling while driving.
- Screen: Not too big and not too small! This will be a key factor in you choosing between a bigger blackberry and this one. I found the size good enough for me. The fonts display the content sharply enough to read easily. It is bright while viewing; goes off after a few seconds of inactivity to save power.
- Videos: I found the video that comes along very good! The graphics very sharp and quite well paced. Need to try more of this later. But I don't watch videos on my cell phone and hence it isn't that much of a selling-point for me.
- Camera: Now, who needs a sophisticated camera on a cell phone? These are frills if you use the device as a phone and an email device. But, it took great pictures. I could easily email the photo to my wife with a few click (I had her email in my contacts already).
- Applications: Google maps is cool - much cooler on the samll screen with turn by turn directions easy to read. The default cingular media-net browser is so-so. Download the Opera-mini. Love browsing on the phone.
- Audio: Call quality has been outstanding so far. The music files, though, when played left more to be desired. Not your iPod substitution this device.
- Outlook sync: Worked like a charm. Now, I love to have all my contact information in this small hand-held.
- The push-to-talk feature hasn't worked for me so far. Maybe it is a area-specific availability issue; need to follow up.
- By far the best feature, is the RIM email push feature. I easily hooked up all my personal email accounts and feel thrilled when the berry flashes a red light whenever I have an email. This eliminates the need and a lot of time for me to login to my email accounts on the computer. Replying to an email may not be so easy given the size; but viewing - works great.
- Battery: Has been great so far. With my constant use of the device for email and trying the web, the battery lasted me more than 2 days w/o re-charging.
- Miscellaneous: I haven't had the berry hang-up as I read of other windows based phones. It did freeze a couple of times, but given that I have the phone for over a week, it isn't much of a bother. This freezing was mostly while on the web, so it could have been connectivity also.

What better?
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- Size: If you usage is email heavy and you need to reply quite often, I suggest you get the bigger berries.
- Audio: If you rely on your cell phone to listen to music as well, I find the audio quality a bit lacking.

Overall, I am very happy with the phone. If you are on the line, I suggest you go for it!

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Well Made

This phone is sleek and sexy. But becasue the screen is smaller and uses 2 letters per key, this isn't for hardcore geeks.

I would say this phone is for a busniess man\woman who are conscious about style. It does do everything a full size blackberry does just with a smaller screen and keyboard.

It will take a few days for you to trust the "sure-type" software. It really does work; it guesses the word you are typing by the time you hit the last letter of the word. This allows you to type a word in the same number of keystrokes as a traditional Blackberry.

I use Cingular and pay a ton of add on fees. $39.99 for phone service; $44.99 for Blackberry service\unlimited internet ; $14.99 for 1,000 TEXT messages.

The voice quiality is the best I have ever had. Sounds like a land phone... I suposse it depends on where you live. I live in NYC.

This is not a phone for the non-technical person....

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