RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Smartphone

Pros: Lightweight, attractive, works well, feature packed
Cons: Weak battery life and screen smudges easily

The Blackberry Pearl is the coolest phone around - at least until the Apple iPhone comes out later this year. The Pearl is small, sleek, easy to use, fun, and works great! Aside from that, it's a Blackberry, so it does a great job ...

Pros: Easy Set Up Good enough quality and speed for at home use.
Cons: I don't like the paper tray

Except for the brief use of a Dell 720 in my household that my daughter took up to school we have had excellent use of Hewlett Packard's HP722c printer for many, many hard years of labor in our home. We loved the machine but it finally died about a month ...

Pros: easy to set-up, easy to use, great multimedia features, very speedy device, not too expensive
Cons: not many

I have been using a Palm TX handheld on the job, for many different functions, and have come to really enjoy using them. My experience with handheld devices is fairly limited, having only really used one other model in the past five years. In the world ...

Pros: Fast printing; superior output; small footprint.
Cons: Cost of supplies.

My youngest daughter has been after me to get her own printer for almost a year now; heretofore she has been sharing my HP Officejet 7130. I limit what she can print and she doesn’t like that one bit. So when I purchase my new HP dv9000z notebook ...

Pros: Incremental but significant improvements in all important smart phone functions
Cons: Really small - probably too small for some users

My first BlackBerry blew. My second BlackBerry was a significant improvement, but certainly not without warts. Now, after a few weeks using my new BlackBerry Pearl 8100, ...

Pros: Friends & Family Plan Compatible; Small & Lightweight; Durable; Great Reception; Great Color Screen
Cons: Not for Large Hands

OUR EXPERIENCE We just updated the entire family’s handsets getting ready to add the Friends and Family Plan to our T-Mobil Service. It was necessary because none of our old phones were compatible with this service. Our youngest son, a freshman ...

Pros: Good quality printing. Inexpensive. Easy to set up.
Cons: None so far!

My old printer, an Epson C42 which came free when I bought my first PC almost 4 yrs ago finally gave up the battle and has gone to that great printer heaven in the sky…ok slight exaggeration I donated it to the computer department of my college, for ...

Pros: Smart, compact and very reliable, and SO EASY to use.
Cons: The greasy screen, the low battery life, so-so camera.

Being a first time Blackberry user (finally!), I was not too thrilled when our company CEO announced that we were all switching to Blackberry devices at the end of 2006. I just found it spooky to see all those guys poking incessantly at their little ...

Pros: Excellent user interface. Very responsive and accurate. Beautiful touchscreen. Use outside of vehicle as hand-held.
Cons: Rather bulky. Awful windshield mount design. (Did I mention the awful windshield mount design?)

Do you remember the days when we all had to use those old-fashioned PAPER maps? Remember those? Anybody? Sometimes we'd even have to pull into a gas station and buy a new one off that little rotating map rack that was located right next to the ...

Pros: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, beautiful screen, stable OS, light/compact, cool design, lots of included software
Cons: no cradle, no voice/mic input, no vibrate, Bluetooth 1.1, battery non-user replaceable

I purchased a Palm Tungsten T several years ago and it's in dire need of a replacement. Every time I turn it on, the digitizer needs to be recalibrated and it's getting tedious. For those who don't know what that is, think of when you sign those digital ...

Pros: Form meets function in a perfect blend.
Cons: SureType isn't perfect. Puts out a lot of interference.

About this review This review is based on heavy usage of the RIM BlackBerry “Pearl” 8100 for three months for both data and voice features. The phone is a “work” phone so functionality was weighed over price. Getting ...

Pros: Stunningly beautiful designer-style phone with the intelligent features you need
Cons: The keyboard design just doesn't work for me.

What it is The Blackberry Pearl is Research In Motion's effort to go mainstream, with a smaller, friendlier looking phone. Unlike previous Blackberries, it has a camera and a very cool looking small form factor. Disclaimer ...

Pros: Very good included software, Very Good still-image performance, Good Audio
Cons: Basic video is not good, definitely not real-time. Forget about general web browsing.

INTRODUCTION For about two years I agonized about which "power" PDA to get. The biggest debate was between getting a PALM OS PDA or a Windows OS PDA. The budget has been about $300 USD with the desired to spend a lot less if possible. After ...

Pros: Inexpensive, large, bright touch screen
Cons: European based company selling to USA as a secondary market.

Wow, this unit has about as many 5 star reviews as it does 1 star reviews. After buying a Garmin StreetPilot i2, then upgrading to the Garmin StreetPilot i5 (they were the cheapest name-brand GPS at the time) I couldn't turn down the opportunity to ...

Pros: Small, Sleek, Lightweight, excellent sound quality and battery life.
Cons: Camera sucks, side shortcut buttons too sensitive, gets dirty too easily. Expensive!

I am the proud owner of the Blackberry 8100 Pearl, AKA "The Pearl". I'm not a cell phone junkie so I don't think I can get into too many details about it (The techie stuff). Here are the specs: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Dimensions: 4.20" x 2.00" x ...