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80 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: The sleek black and chrome Blackberry Pearl gets a camera and memory card, but can you really put a QWERTY keyboard on something as thin and light as a Motorola RAZR?
Striking design; push e-mail; first camera in a RIM device; great battery life; well-rounded IM capabilities
Ugly lower-level menus; steep learning curve on SureType keypad; new trackball can be tricky to use
The smallest and lightest of all the Blackberry phones -- and the first to arrive with a built-in camera -- scores with its potent mix of messaging and PIM abilities, but its eponymous Pearl trackball gave us headaches. And while the handsets multim...
The RIM BlackBerry Pearl is the first BlackBerry to offer a 1.3-megapixel camera, music and video playback, expandable memory, and a mapping application. The supersleek phone also continues to offer superior push e-mail capabilities, EDGE support, and ...
The RIM BlackBerry Pearls microSD slot is inconveniently located behind the battery, and call quality was subpar in our tests. The phones camera doesnt record video, and we wish there were external controls for the music player and integrated Wi-Fi.
Though nothing revolutionary, the addition of multimedia features and the already solid e-mail capabilities make the RIM BlackBerry Pearl an attractive device for business users and consumers alike.
Abstract: When you think of a BlackBerry phone, what usually comes to mind is a squat, bland, all-business device that is great at email and fair at phone calls, but does little else well. BlackBerry models have been mostly aimed at big businesses, and they hav...
GPS Navigation, High-speed EV-DO data, Sharp 2-MP camera
Couldn’t play WMV files, Audio for video clips doesn’t play over stereo Bluetooth, Multimedia functionality needs improvement
RIM kept all the features we loved on the 8100 and made them better. Some may prefer Samsung’s BlackJack II, which costs $50 less and offers a full keyboard along with XM Radio Mobile and streaming Cellular Video. But the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 still...
Abstract: The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 smart phone is one of the worlds smallest smart phones and packs all of the power of BlackBerry. It comes complete with digital camera, multimedia capabilities and expandable memory. And it offers users everything else they...
Slim and sexy design, Lightweight, BlackBerrys email and business functionality, Multimedia capabilities, Inclusion of a camera, Quadband, Flash memory and microSD card, New consumer focus
No 3G connectivity, No QWERTY keypad, No Wi-Fi, Poor camera quality
Consumers that have already been lured by the BlackBerrys popular email functions will love the new-look Pearl, but may be disappointed when comparing it to other high-end consumer devices with 2-megapixel cameras and Wi-Fi connectivity. ...
