Cell Purchasing Help (Anyone Own A Blackberry Pearl?)

[Leon Machado IV]

Now I'm just going to wait till Android comes out and that'll be my next phone.

[Andy Baker]

I've got a Blackberry Pearl, and I like it.

Email... outstanding. I have both my gmail and andymark email accounts set up to it, so when anyone emails me, I know right away (crap... shouldn't have said that). I also get these pesky "Reported post from ChiefDelphi" emails too often.

Browser... not so good. It's slow, tedious, and freaks out often. My plan switches from EDGE to GSM (or whatever it's called), and I don't use the browser enough to tell the difference in speed... they both audibly inhale when browsing.

Camera is good. 3x optical zoom is decent. My camera takes more self-portraits of my daughters than it needs to. ... nostrils, tongues, closeups of eyeballs... lovely stuff.

Case and hardware are durable. I've dropped this thing a few times with no resulting damage. One time, it careened down some stone steps, and I had to remove the battery to kick start it.

Battery life is good. When I forgot my charger on a recent trip to Hawaii to volunteer at silly robotics event, it lasted 1-1/2 days before crapping out. Some guy from NASA tried to charge it on his laptop with a USB cord, but that is not as good as the wall plug in charger.

Mp3 player is nice... who needs an iPod? Putting mine on shuffle right now, and I get "Pinch Me" by Barenaked Ladies. eh, that song sucks... hit "n" for next... I mean "American Music" by Violent Femmes.

Apps... I still need to figure those out. I am sure there are many things on here that I don't know how to use yet.

Brickbreaker is a mighty fine game... I'm got to level 18, and a high score of 10,440. Beat that.

Andy Blackberry

[Joe Matt]

Thanks everyone for your help, I've decided the Palm is quite big and not for my taste (I want a phone with a good camera on it, since my phone is slowly and surely replacing my digital camera...) and I like the idea of digital wireless media.

Right now I'm looking at Pearl and the MOTORIZR (mobile TV ftw)...

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

Thanks everyone for your help, I've decided the Palm is quite big and not for my taste (I want a phone with a good camera on it, since my phone is slowly and surely replacing my digital camera...) and I like the idea of digital wireless media.

Right now I'm looking at Pearl and the MOTORIZR (mobile TV ftw)...

Joe, the HTC Touch Dual is going up on verizon the day before championships...april 16th. it's a REALLY GOOD phone, has all the advantages of the pearl. the e-mail and browser are easy to set up, they run just like outlook on the device.

also for the person with sprint.... you should look into the SERO plan, you can get it online and it's a VERY good deal. $30 for 500 minutes. unlimited night and weekend, mobile to mobile... text messaging, internet... and mos of everything else.

i'll post a link to this plan if anyone else is intrested.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

Joe, the HTC Touch Dual is going up on verizon the day before championships...april 16th. it's a REALLY GOOD phone, has all the advantages of the pearl. the e-mail and browser are easy to set up, they run just like outlook on the device.

also for the person with sprint.... you should look into the SERO plan, you can get it online and it's a VERY good deal. $30 for 500 minutes. unlimited night and weekend, mobile to mobile... text messaging, internet... and mos of everything else.

i'll post a link to this plan if anyone else is intrested.

As cool as that phone is, it's still $200 more than the Pearl, which means quite a bit to my bank account, plus I want a new phone before champs, and yes it's coming out the day before, but the last thing i want to do is set that thing up while packing and panicking.

I'll keep you guys updated on what I'm looking at/getting. So far I'm leaning towards the Pearl...

[Ashley Weed]

I have the HTC Shadow, and I am cheap/conservative, and would not pay the prices for the data plans either.

I am assuming that these phones have the same feature (Wi-Fi) that my Shadow does. If so, I would recommend syncing your phone, or just logging into Gmail whenever you are in presence of a hot spot.

My Wi-Fi is fast and durable enough to support an International Skype connection to put things into perspective a little.

[Joe Matt]

I've made up my mind on what phone to get. Mine is now just crapping out to the point of no return, so tomorrow morning when the store opens at 9am (that's early for a college student!) I'm going to buy the Blackberry Pearl. Simple, elegant, and I got to play with the one of the ones my brothers have and it's definatley what I want now. We're on the family plan, so my parents will continue to pay for my bill, but I will be buying the handset and the data plan for it.

Thanks everyone for your help!

[Joe Matt]

Howdy ya'll.

After a full night of Relay For Life (only team to go platinum!) and a few long days, I can say that the Blackberry Pearl is really really tight.

Few notes:

-The data plan is $30 a month, not great, not bad.
-Camera is really good, but when uploading to FB it has to resize them, and they come out looking worse then they actually are (I'll post comparisons soon).
-YouTube works on it. Uh oh. I wish though that you could tilt the phone on it's side and watch the video, opposed to having to watch it in portrait and have bunch of black space on the screen.
-Facbook application (get this Andy!). Uh oh.
-Free Google Maps has that neato triangularization feature that's on the iPhone.
-Keypad requires getting used to, but it's quite handy and well done.
-I'm having trouble uploading mp3's to it using my mac, I'd love to use them as custom ring tones.
-This thing is a chick magnet, 'nuff said. They love the game on there and the form factor.

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

Joe, the HTC Touch Dual is going up on verizon the day before championships...april 16th. it's a REALLY GOOD phone, has all the advantages of the pearl. the e-mail and browser are easy to set up, they run just like outlook on the device.

also for the person with sprint.... you should look into the SERO plan, you can get it online and it's a VERY good deal. $30 for 500 minutes. unlimited night and weekend, mobile to mobile... text messaging, internet... and mos of everything else.

i'll post a link to this plan if anyone else is intrested.

Hey I found this on the Sprint website, but it says that I need a Sprint employee email address to see it. I guess the only two questions I have for it is:
A) What phones are available for it? They have the rumor pictured, but if they have the pearl, I'm all in.
B) Does it come in a family plan?

Also, glad to hear you got the phone you wanted Joe!