Blackberry 8100 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Pearl is RIM's first smartphone with support for playing music and video, plus it has a built in camera. Brighthand's Editor-in-Chief brings us a review of this smartphone.

Verdict: There's no doubt about it, the Pearl is a huge step forward for RIM.

Review summary: The PDA phone acquires multimedia smarts--and a stylish new look.

Review summary: The BlackBerry Pearl is an effort to make headway into the mainstream consumer market with features such as a camera and an MP3 player.

Pros: Slim, great looking Smartphone, Strong email functionality, 'Pearl' better than thumb wheel, Camera, Standard Mini-USB slot

Cons: Cramped keyboard keys, Plain vanilla UI after main menu, Browser ruins page formatting, Unimpressive camera quality, No video recording, Doesn't recharge via standard USB

Verdict: The BlackBerry Pearl is an effort to make headway into the mainstream consumer market, and while it is a very good phone that offers the trademark BlackBerry email functionality, with new features such as a camera and media playback, it doesn't have a ver

Review summary: Blackberry devices were known worldwide for business and professional use only, but not anymore!! The new Blackberry Pearl has a lot of new features that older versions were missing. The new Blackberry Pearl also known as the 8100 has a camera, media play

Verdict: I found that the QWERTY Keyboard is too small for fast typing. Since there is more than one letter on each key it makes it more confusing and harder to use. I am not a fan of the Suretype technology but you do get used to it. Although a lot of people like

Review summary: Our In Depth review of the sleek BlackBerry Pearl consumer messaging phone.