Back In July, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told The Charlie Rose Show: “The first thing that you do when you add a touch display is that you add a little extra layer of glass or plastic and a little bit of glare” as an explanation to why we don’t have a touchscreen Kindle yet. But Sony’s latest readers have a glare-free touchscreen interface. How did they do it? More »
We knew RIM was launching the Pearl 3G exclusively on Telstra, but now the phone has been officially launched and we have some more concrete pricing information: More »
With its ultra-compact two-inch wide, 94g body, the Pearl 3G is the smallest BlackBerry yet. Despite its size though, it’s still a full-featured BlackBerry, complete with 802.11n wireless support – a first for BlackBerry devices. More »
Boost Mobile are trying to convert their younger user base into crackberry addicts by offering them the Pearl 8120 for just $299. Sure, it’s an older phone, but for $299 and 12 months unlimited Blackberry IM, email and browsing, it’s a pretty sweet deal for the teens and tweens out there who can’t afford an iPhone. More »
What’s notable about this offering from RIM and Crazy John’s isn’t the pink BlackBerry Pearl 8110. It’s the fact that you can sign up for a BlackBerry plan for under $40 a month. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily make it good value. More »
Acidmods just can’t get enough of hacking up our console controllers, and now the company has replaced the Wiimote’s A button with a clicking trackball (a la Blackberry Pearl). The result is an easier way to scroll through webpages and certain menu systems, as you can see in this video:
Chances are, you’re not going to get a BlackBerry Pearl Flip. If you read Gizmodo, you’re much more likely to already own a Bold or be holding out for the Storm. But you might be thinking of getting the Pearl Flip for your girlfriend, wife, mistress, daughter, or other non-blackberry using relation as an entry-level BB device. In which case, the news that the Pearl Flip is launching on Optus within the next week or so is probably worth listening to.
Of course, there are a couple of caveats you should consider before purchase though. Number one is that the phone is only 2.5G – there’s no super-fast mobile data speeds here. Technically the phone is EDGE capable, but seeing as how only Telstra has EDGE and the phone is only on Optus (for the moment), that doesn’t really help you. The second is that the phone is only available on a $79 business or consumer cap plan for $0 upfront (over 24 months). Which isn’t exactly the amount of money you want to be spending on an entry-level smartphone.
That is, once you’ve put on the blinders necessary to peer only into the screen to enjoy this $US7 theme add-on, which ditched the Pearl/Curve’s rough quasi-future typography (thank God that has been changed) and icon set in favour of the Storm’s slick new UI. The icons even look like they’re being touch-clicked when you select them. Good to pass the time until the Storm drops sometime later next month. [BBThemes via Crackberry]
If it hadn’t been leaked so damn much, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 would be something of a surprise. Not simply because it’s the first-ever clamshell BlackBerry, but the fact that RIM went in this direction at all, especially when you look at the rest of its new phones, with their clean, almost aerodynamic lines, and compare them to this beefy slab of a phone. Landing on T-Mobile today, the big-boned Pearl Flip is aimed at people graduating to their first smartphone, and it definitely has its own kind of charm. galleryPost('blackberrypearlflip', 3, '');
