Is the BlackBerry Pearl a good phone?
The answer depends on which model of the Pearl you want to get, the differences are as follows: Pearl 8100: No headphone jack and only has video recording with a formware upgrade Pearl 8110: GPS receiver Pearl 8120: Wi-fi connectability Pearl 8130: GPS receiver, CDMA network I personally have a Pearl 8110 and it works very well and works for everything I need it for, especially getting un-lost. To comment on the other answer here, I haven’t had any of the issues he/she mentions, my phone lasts for 3-4 days if I only use it for texting and lasts for 4-5 hours of talk-time. I’ve never lost any data due to removing the battery. I send/receive thousands of SMS/MMS messages a month and have no issues maintaining ALL of them, I have never cleared them and have it set to save all of them, there are probably upwards of 30,000 currently stored on my blackberry and it runs just fine.
Here’s some feedback from what I thought about mine: It’s good if you don’t excessively use it. So if you text/call a lot then I wouldn’t recommend it. Also, if you get a contract with lots of free text messaging then it’s worth your while investing in a better phone that can cope with lots of use without breaking, however if you’re not then BlackBerry Messenger is useful because it you can use it free. The battery life on it isn’t very good, mine used to always be running low by the end of the day which wasn’t very practical if i wanted to go out in the evening and expect to use my phone. It’s great in that the internet is good, but most contracts make you pay extra for it, similarly for using BlackBerry Messenger, or at least that’s what I found. The keypad takes some getting used to. I had the full QWERTY keyboard on a previous BB, and switching from that to this kind was hard but I got used to it. Another problem which can become quite annoying is if you remove the battery, it can
