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The BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 was announced again at WES just a quick month ago, and is about ready for primetime. It builds upon RIM’s older Pearl family with an upgraded HVGA show, optical trackpad to exchange the now-defunct trackball, a new 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, and is the primary BlackBerry to host Wi-Fi 802.11n. When combined with BlackBerry OS 5.0, the Pearl 3G is successfully a miniaturized Bold 9700. Coming from the Bold 9000, I was already ready to overlook the luxurious display screen dimension, but remembered my time with the original Pearl 8100 fondly, principally by way of how pocketable it was and the way fast I was with the SureType keypad. Wi-Fi n was a big pull, and I was curious to see how a lot better it was than the Wi-Fi on the overwhelming majority of handsets I had used within the past. From the pictures alone, the 9100 seemed like a solid, if maybe too-acquainted refresh on an established household of BlackBerrys. Carrying the first correct BlackBerry model title, the Pearl 3G had a major heritage to stay up to. So… does it? Execs * Pocketable * Tight design and development * Easy, secure working system Cons * Lowered screen size * Little achieve from Wi-Fi 802.11n * Optical trackpad prone to daylight interference BlackBerry 9100 Keyboard 536x402 Assessment: BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 (Lot of Awesome in Tiny Bundle) Hardware First off, it needs to be said that the BlackBerry Pearl 3G is extraordinarily nicely built. The assorted parts are very snugly assembled, and the keypad is far tighter than I remember the old Pearl being. Build quality aside, the 9100 has mad style. We’ll get into that in a bit. First, the laborious specs. * Dimensions: 108 x 50 x 13.three mm, 93 g * Display: 2.6″, 360 x 400 LCD display * Processor: 624 Mhz processor * Memory: 256 MB * Battery: 1150 mAh (5 hours discuss, 18 days standby) * Bands: 800 (850)/1900/2100 MHz UMTS (also in 900/1700/2100 MHz variety), 850/900/1800/1900 MHz EDGE * Bluetooth: 2.1, contains Stereo Audio profile So, back to looks. The chrome accent is nice and darkish, and never so obnoxiously silver as different BlackBerrys. The rubberized siding and seamlessly-built-in comfort keys (much like the 8520 and 8530 Curve) add a tonne of grip and smoothness. The strains are each sharp and curvy, reminding me numerous the X10 Xperia. The battery door adopts the identical single-slate fashion because the 8500-series BlackBerry, which has at all times been my favourite since it minimizes the variety of transferring parts to fiddle with. Not all shifting parts are bad, although - there’s a new one under the battery door that allows you to easily pop out the SIM card with out having to dig and pry. It’s much better than the hinge that almost all other BlackBerrys are packing. BlackBerry 9100 rightside 300x225 Evaluation: BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 (Lot of Awesome in Tiny Package deal)As good as the scale is, it’s not actually that a lot larger than the primary Pearl, as you possibly can see compared right here to the iPhone and BlackBerry 8120. It’s acquired a pleasant amount of weight to it without being too heavy - a really good medium. So far as enter goes, the optical trackpad, although ostensibly a step up from the older trackball, nonetheless fritzes out in direct sunlight. That’s almost as inconvenient as occasionally getting grit caught beneath the trackball, really. RIM’s two-letter-per-key SureType keyboard has a studying curve to it, so be prepared. Like most predictive methods, you have to study to belief the dictionary to figure out what it's you’re trying to say. There’s one main caveat with SureType: if you happen to sort one thing fallacious, it's going to predict your word mistaken, and possibly mess up the phrase even worse than if you happen to just screwed up a single letter on a QWERTY keypad. In case you’re snug with prediction, you might also wish to look into the 9105 variant, which has a standard numeric keypad that feature telephone users is likely to be extra comfortable with. We aren’t sure if the 9105 goes to be exclusive to Europe right now, but we’re guessing so.  |
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