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:
