Jun 21
A word of caution to my readers, I have had no previous knowledge on Blackberry phones or haven’t used them before. By luck I got to play around with a Blackberry Pearl (Model No: 8100) provided by AirTel . So these are some of my own impressions formed from a ” Blackberry Ignorant Brain “
- I have never been a fan of flat wide bodied device with QWERTY keypad , even though it has its own advantages, the Sony Ericsson M600i was a exception. But the Pearl with its sleek looks really amazed me. For a smart phone its absolutely a svelte chic
- The 240 x 320 display was nice and the grid based iconic interface was nice & easy to use
- I think this is one of the first blackberry phones with a camera & media player functionality. The 1.3 megapixel camera is quite OK and the music quality was good. The demo video of avi format was quite exceptional in sharpness and smoothness of playback
- The internet browser was average as it wasnt able to handle pages with Javascript
- Whats a blackberry without “E-Mail” - The e-mail delivered is read well in the big display and all attachments like doc, xls, ppt, jpg, pdf files were easily opened and viewed. Images cam be zoomed in and out. But typing in the keypad what they call as SureType keypad was a struggle as I couldnt come to grips with keypad
- The best thing to me about the Pearl is the Pearl (trackball) itself which sits under the display. It was a dream to navigate with it.
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