BlackBerry 8100 Pearl Review

After a disastrous spill of a cocktail into my shiny new Nokia E60 Smartphone, I started looking for another mobile phone (I wouldn’t think of buying the same gear twice). I ended up coming upon the newly-released BlackBerry Pearl (8100), recommended to me by a phone-junkie friend. In a nutshell, the new Blackberry offers up one of the best form factors of any phones I’ve come across in my searches. It employs a trackball similar to the Apple Mighty Mouse and does away with the scroll wheel on the side. The phone is surprisingly slim and light and has a usable camera with flash. If you generally like Blackberrys, you’ll love the 8100 Pearl.

Continue Reading September 26th, 2006