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| BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Smartphone Black (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: BlackBerry
Category: Wireless
List Price: $349.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 1617
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
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Model: 8100
UPC: 610214613370
EAN: 0610214613370
ASIN: B000ID10JE
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| Customer Reviews:
 Awesome May 21, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the few great deals I got in recent times. Only with Amazon. The product is great and the deal is great...
Prasad Rayala
 Not so "Smart" phone! May 11, 2007
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
After spending a frustrating 6 hours trying to make this thing do various operations, I returned it. If you are not a Blackberry user, this will likely be not a good choice for a first smart phone. I'm reasonably computer literate, and I found that the CD and software that came with the phone was terrible. Great on fancy images, useless on information. A small quick start written manual came with it, but no owner's manual. If you have an IT person at your company to help you with this phone great, otherwise, forget it. Microscopic icons and print on the screen, even when text size is adjusted, the command lines remain tiny. Unable to sync with Yahoo Address book, track ball feels like a toy, the volume on my phone even at high was clearly insufficient, both in terms of ringer volume and voice volume.
 The Pearl works well for me... and my Mac. May 7, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have owned my bb pearl for several weeks now, and I am quite satisfied with it overall. This is my first time with a blackberry product, and it has taken a little time to get used to the OS and menu layouts. Definitely not as attractive and easy as other basic cell phones that I have had in the past, but I know that's pretty much to be expected.
The size of the phone is great. Great size for a cell phone to comfortably fit in your pocket and still feel suvstantial. Much more practical than the typical BB sizes, and much more ideal compared to the Motorola Q and T-Mobile Dash. You obviously sacrifice the full qwerty keyboard, but for me it's a price I'm willing to pay. If you were to write long e-mails with this device, you'd probably want the full qwerty, but for my purposes this works great.
The phone functions/speakerphone all work well. Although the speakerphone doesn't get very loud. The text input works great, and after only about a week of using the phone I can type fairly quickly and accurately. The camera is pretty nice and takes decent pictures even with the flash. The voice recognition is so-so. Sometimes it takes multiple attempts to access the correct contact with it. Good effort with this feature, but it underperforms a little. The syncing capabilities are the best part of the phone for me. I have been able to consolidate from using my Pocket PC, and now only have to carry my phone with me. I am even able to sync it with my MacBook iCal and addressbook using downloaded software. (this was the main selling point for me)
I only have a few minor complaints about the phone: I am unable to send picture messages with this phone unless I pay for the $20 e-mail and internet service even though I already pay for a text and picture message service for the phone. So basically I have to pay for a service that I'm not able to use. That's the way the phone's made, not T-Mobile's fault, although they should probably find a way to reimburse their customers like myself who are in this situation.
I also seem to have an issue with incoming calls. If I get to the phone at the tail end of the ring, the screen will go black even though the phone's still ringing thus making it impossible to see the caller ID without pressing a button to reactivate the screen (which sometimes I've accepted and rejected calls inadvertantly by just trying to see the caller ID.) The Caller ID should definitely stay lit at least until it goes to voicemail. I've tried to adjust settings to fix this, but no success thus far.
Also, although the small size is great, the keys are just a smidge too small for me. I don't exactly have huge hands, but I'd like it if the keys were even just a little bigger. It would make them a lot nicer to use.
Although I am not an addicted "crackberry" user (at least for now) I would still recommend this phone as a great combo between PDA and phone in a small/stylish package.
Nice Phone May 7, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
A great phone for a great price...FREE !!
I upgraded this phone from my old one and do not regret it at all.
The OS is pretty easy to use once you get used the button placement.
DL speeds are decent, phone isnt too big, camera is nice, and screensize is acceptable. Over all a good phone for a BB user.
Good multimedia blackberry, has room for improvement... May 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been a blackberry user since the 957 came out. I've learned to hate them because I have to respond to e-mails at home when I am supposed to enjoy time with my family.
For the most part, the Blackberry Pearl works like any other blackberry. It is only available in gsm networks like t-mobile and cingular.
This blackberry is revolutionary because you can use microsd memory card, camera, mp3 and video player. Thus there are shortcomings in most of those features. You can use an microsd card but you have to pull out the battery before changing it. The camera takes poor quality pictures even at sunlight and at maximum quality settings. It is nice to add a flash but it is almost useless. If you take a picture in the dark, the picture will come out mostly green. Don't even bother to take videos because it does not support it. The mp3 player is nice, but it doesn't seem to have a nice controls and it does not include a stereo headphone. You have to purchase one on ebay. The video player plays surprising good quality and it plays in .mp4 also:)
The battery life on these blackberries are getting worse and worse, I recall that a blackberry 957 would go 3 weeks without recharging. This blackberry wouldn't last 2 days without recharging, which is equivalent to my 7250 blackberry using sprint's g3 network. Personally, I would've liked it weighting more and having a bigger battery.
All said aside, this is a good multimedia blackberry, but I wouldn't throw away my motorola v3i as my mp3 player/camera yet. This is the first generation multimedia blackberry and hopefully it would improve in the next generation.
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