RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Cell Phone

Pros: small, long battery life
free apps from google, Flickr, NYT

Cons: small, recessed screen
small keys with multiple letters / key
could use more memory

Review: This is a great toy and productivity enhancer. Standalone, its just a smartphone but the applications make it a very useful tool. Google apps (gmail, reader, maps, news, docs and *sync*) lets you sync your contacts with gmail and gmail contacts, which is ...

Pros: Connects to internetVZ navigator

Cons: Keys too close together, freezes a lot, can't always hear well, tiny data storage capacity

The Bottom Line: If it is free, it is not a terrible phone.  It's not that bad, but certainly more aggravation than it's worth.

Review: I purchased this phone about 1 year ago.  It hasn't been great, but hasn't been too terrible.  Reception and volume on the phone is decent.  The keys are very close together, so it is sometimes hard to press only one single key when typing ...

Pros: works, not windows os

Cons: texting is difficult

Review: I apologize for being such a prude but I really don't like this phone.  My work distributed them out to us for free and its a bit frustrating.  I think small phones are nice, but not when they're PDA's.  Also, the keypad feature is horrid ...

Pros: Nice small, not heavy and good range

Cons: Body not reliable, scroll ball sensitive

The Bottom Line: I would recommend this phone to people who wants QWERTY feature and light phone.

Review: If you are looking for nice and small phone with advanced features here is one for you. I like this phone a small and handy and easy to carry. Double QWERTY feature for text lovers, so I love this feature when I have to type, easy to find words.. ...

Pros: Light weight, small size, good battery life

Cons: Too complicated, useless web browser, lots of features but not good at any of them

The Bottom Line: Seems like it was released before engineers finished developing it. The design has some truly stunning oversights. An overcomplicated device that still lacks simple functions that the core audience needs.

Review: This phone is mediocre at all of its supposed uses. It doesn't work that well as a phone - it has poor sound quality, especially with a bluetooth headset connected - it crackles. And you can't set it to vibrate and have a ringer at the same time. ...

Pros: Small/compact, attractive, functional, MANY options

Cons: Definitely read the owner's manual!, takes practice, needs a costly data plan to go with

The Bottom Line: This is a great and functional phone. It's reasonably priced for all that it can do.

Review: I'm a total girly girl, so the minute they announced they were making a pink Blackberry Pearl, I was all over it - FINALLY something functional and fashionable! The guy at the store told me it would soon live up to it's second name - Crackberry, but I ...

Pros: durable, sleek, sexy, easy to use.

Cons: small key pad, going out of style.

Review: So my blackberry is breaking down after one year of quality service. It has been a pretty good year with the BB pearl she has been user friendly, sleek, durable, and reliable. But like I said she is breaking down and not working like she used to. With ...

Pros: sophisticated, small and sleek

Cons: doesn't hold much on it if you don't buy a memory card

The Bottom Line: I would give this phone a try! I think it's impossible to hate it and I'm not even a gadget freak!

Review: I have gone through quite a few cell phones but the blackberry pearl is my favorite. It is sophisticated looking, small but not too small, very sleek and shiny. It is perfect! I've had smaller phones which were so small that I would drop them 2-3 ...

Pros: Small, multi-media player, Digital Camera, Texting

Cons: Battery life

The Bottom Line: eighty gig ipods are heavy...

Review: The Blackberry Pearl can be a great phone for anyone. I have been using the phone for about four months now and I have grown to love it. I must admit that at first I thought it was way too small for me, but the longer I had the phone, the more I ...

Pros: Excellent size and form function; loaded with up-to-date features

Cons: Keyboard can be difficult to adjust to

The Bottom Line: The smartphone for everyday users.

Review: The Blackberry Pearl was Research-in-Motion's attempt to build a product that had all the functionality and features that were attracting consumers into buying their business-oriented phones, but added features people had come to expect from ordinary ...