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BlackBerry Pearl 8100

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  • User Score (766)
    7.5 7.5 from 766 reviewers
  • Expert Score (27)
    7.7 7.7 from 27 reviewers
  • Design (70)
    6.5 6.5 from 70 reviewers
  • Features (56)
    6.7 6.7 from 56 reviewers
  • Performance (24)
    6.9 6.9 from 24 reviewers
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One of the things that you will be sure to love most about the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 is its overall lovely design. In fact, its design is very fashionable, which just may be one of the reasons that you become attracted to the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 mobile phone to begin with. Is definitely suitable for any pocket or purse, with its thin design. Although the screen of the camera is relatively small, there are a variety of different qualities which makes up for this. There are two buttons on the pho…

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One of the things that you will be sure to love most about the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 is its overall lovely design. In fact, its design is very fashionable, which just may be one of the reasons that you become attracted to the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 mobile phone to begin with. Is definitely suitable for any pocket or purse, with its thin design. Although the screen of the camera is relatively small, there are a variety of different qualities which makes up for this. There are two buttons on the phone which you are able to set to the functions which you tend to use the most, which seems to be very convenient for most people. The RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 has a pretty decent music player to offer you. One of the main benefits is the fact that you are able to set any song to be your ringtone. Unfortunately, this mobile phone is not very suitable for people who are interested in using their phone as their main source of photography. This is due to the fact that the built in camera that the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 has to offer is only decent. The mobile phone also does not have a video recording function, which is offered by most of the mobile phones that are currently out on the market. The battery on the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 has a pretty long life, even when you decide to play music for hours on end.

Overall, it is safe to say that the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 is an excellent mobile phone choice for anyone who wants a decent phone in general. However, the major quirk about this mobile phone is the fact that the camera is lacking, and that there is no video record function.

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Pros & Cons

  • digital music player, pocket sized and lightweight, sleek and sexy looks, loud and clear conversations, suretype keyboard
  • awkward qwerty keyboard, no blackberry jog wheel, confusing menus, no standalone mp3 application, microsd slot behind battery
  1. BlackBerry Pearl 8100

    30 April 2009
    Overall 7
    7.0
    Features 6
    6.0
    Ease of use 8
    8.0
    Performance 8
    8.0
     

    Blackberry has perhaps strayed from their winning formula of producing outstanding handsets for use in business. Read more

  2. Blackberry Pearl 8100 SmartPhone Review

    30 April 2009

    RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 Smartphone Small, thin, compact yet astonishingly powerful is how we can describe RIM’s Blackberry pearl 8100. This is the smallest smart phone of the blackberry community to have hit the markets successfully. The handset is light weighted and can be operated with ease single handed. Blackberry pearl 8100 does satisfy the other [...] Read more

  3. BlackBerry Pearl 8100

    Reviewer: Mobile Choice UK
    16 November 2007
    Overall 8
    8.0
    Features 6
    6.0
    Ease of use 8
    8.0
    Performance 8
    8.0
     

    The best looking BlackBerry ever and very powerful for such a slim device. Read more

  4. RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100

    Reviewer: PC Pro
    26 October 2007
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    A great piece of hardware, backed up by BlackBerry's legendary services Read more

  5. RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100

    Reviewer: Register Hardware
    04 October 2007
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Pearl is the best BlackBerry yet. Full stop. It does everything RIM is famous for - seamless email and communication - and packs it into the same space as a normal mobile phone. Throw in the easy-to-use roller ball navigation and a built-in camera and it covers all the bases. If you want everything on the go, and want it now then the Pearl is currently the only handset on the market that ticks all the boxes. ® Read more

  1. Smart

    Reviewer: Ciao
    2 weeks ago
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    In my opinion the blackberry pearl 8100 is a very smart and cool phone.From its scroll wheel to its keyboard text pad.This is a very good phone and does everything you want it to do, from internet to email and from games to voice dialing. This phone does take a lot of getting used to but when you do get used to it, it is an amazing phone. It is perfect for buisiness. You can upload you power point presentations and your word documents to you computer for meetings. The... Read more

  2. Blackberry Pearl 8100: Good business phone

    Reviewer: Dooyoo
    05 June 2009
    Overall 6
    6.0
     

    Overall a very good phone. It took me a while to get used to the keyboard layout for texting and e-Mail. Its amazing how much you get used to a standard phone. However, now I am used to it, it has become second nature. The roller ball is both an advantage and disadvantage of the phone. It offers a great addition for navigation the clean menu and UI of the phone. However as it ages, it becomes extremely tempremental. Only the other day it decided to stop scrolling right.... Read more

  3. RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100

    Reviewer: Sandra Vogel, CNET
    04 November 2007
    Overall 2
    2.0
     

    "Fundamentally flawed" Read more

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