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Tonight I picked up my new Blackberry Pearl(8100) by T-Mobile. I must say, having owned/used the Blackberry 5790, 6750, 7750, 7250, 7130, 7520, 8700, and now the 8100 - the 8100 is my favorite.

This phone feels solid and feels right in your hand and on a call.

Tons of new features offered for the first time by Blackberry are:

• Voice Activated Dialing
• Bluetooth GPS compatibility w/ Blackberry Maps
• Trackball/joystick - no more traditional Trackwheel
• New style themes, similar to Pocket PC’s “Today” Screen
• A 1.3MP camera
• Media player - Movies, MP3’s
• Stereo Headset
• Expandable Memory slot - MicroSD
• MP3 Ringtones - currently available on the 8700.

The phone came with OZ Instant Messaging Client. I’m not sure if this is a T-Mobile only included software or not. We’ll see when the Pearl comes out on Cingular sometime in November.

Check out a few pics: