Cell Purchasing Help (Anyone Own A Blackberry Pearl?)

[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.