Comments on: Blackberry Pearl

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:26:15 +0000

I just purchased a Pearl about a week ago and I will agree that the phone is great. Web browsing, texting and the likes have gone very smoothly and work well. Because I have Cingular, I do get a lot of dropped calls with the Pearl. Almost twice as much as when I had a base Nokia phone. The phone though is great. Like I said, I have no problems accessing internet or e-mail.

I do have two things to gripe over. First, the Pearl is a very pretty phone so I want to protect it. I bought a plastic housing which works great (I’ve dropped the phone a few times and no scratches) but makes it hard to type e-mails and read the side of the screen. I’m looking for another casing which still allows easy access to the screen and the keypad. Secondly, I’ve had pretty dismal battery life. It hasn’t been a problem because I have a car charger as well, and the phone charges quickly, but in a day I’ll use about 75-80% of my battery. Keep in mind that I keep bluetooth on in the car, internet is always on, and I have the screen set to highest and longest visibility.

But, great phone. I’m very happy about it. Been finding a lot of ways to customize it with ringtones and custom made wallpapers from my own pictures.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:44:49 +0000

Great response, thanks for contributing :]

As for your battery life problem, try some of these things. You did point out that you max out the settings on things like brightness and keeping your bluetooth on but I will give tell you my settings. Try it out for a few days and see if you notice a difference:

- I put the auto off feature (screen shuts off) to 5 seconds or so (maybe 10?)
- I have my brightness set to the mid level
- I dont have bluetooth so unless you stop using it… that wont change for ya :]
- If you use aim, try disconnecting when not using it

My phone lasts about 2-3 days with out charging this way. This also takes into account couple of phone calls a day, texting a bit, some internet usage, etc.

With the screen being half as bright, it still gets the job done for me and doesnt seem ‘dimmer’ as I can still read it in any light.

Hope these help, even though they are very basic. :]

By: Reggie

Reggie — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:17:02 +0000

What do you use to clean your blackberry with?

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:46:44 +0000

I got the Pearl 8100 a few days ago from Costco. First off, the price I thought was great with all their rebates and stuff. The phone/internet package costs me around 70 bucks a month which I think is reasonable considering I utilize it for messaging IM emails private and work. I think the Blackberry is awesome. The shape, look and feel is sexy. The qwerty style layout is familiar although not recommended if you’ve got fat fingers! I must agree the battery gets used majorly. I generally use 75% battery a day, I’m not a high end user by any means but it does use alot of juice, but then again I charge it at night whilst asleep so it really doesn’t matter. Overall though, I’m really happy with the 8100 Pearl Blackberry and I highly recommend it to anyone that requires email/internet on the go (although not all sites are optimized for the Blackberry which is obvious) and I recommend it to anyone that loves technology. Just keep in mind things like MSN and IM’ging on the BlackBerry usually require a seperate message service, for example mine is 70 bucks a month but for an extra 10 a month I can flog the living daylights out of this pup and get unlimited messeges which cover SMS, MMS and all the IM’ing services the BlackBerry comes with like MSN, Yahoo, AOL etc. Hope this helps!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:01:16 +0000

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By: billybob

billybob — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:56:33 +0000

Where can I find theams for the pearl the ones on the black berry kinda are getting boring

By: 3$m3r@Ld@

3$m3r@Ld@ — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:14:06 +0000

I just bought this pearl last week & its awesome with unltd net, messaging, mp3 player & all. I’ve received only compliments making me proud 2 show it off. But I don’t like that my calls won’t stay on my recent calls list. They just erase as if I hant made, missed or received any calls, how do u fix this?

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:20:33 +0000

Usually you have to do a battery pull. That will always update the phone and usually fixes the calls not showing up in the call list.

By: corinna

corinna — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:06:36 +0000

I don’t like the blackberry perl it is stupid I hate it I have gone through 3 I’m about 2 recive my 4th my first one broke with in a month and then my second broke within a lil over a month and I just got this one 3 days ago and the camera broke! It is stupid I want a diff phone but they said no u can’t get a diferant one! Stupid! Hate this phone

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:26:48 +0000

Sounds like Corinna probably didn’t need a BlackBerry in the first place.

By: Brody

Brody — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:54:27 +0000

I’m in love with my Blackberry Pearl. It’s been tremendously helpful in my line of work — no longer checking multiple e-mail accounts every 10 minutes for important e-mails. And the other features… I could go on and on! If only the camera had a microscopic lens. I’m a microbiologist, not crazy. Well, maybe both. I digress. The Blackberry Pearl is a dream and the people who complain about them… I just don’t get them. Cheers!

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:20:46 +0000

Battery Pull, Battery Pull. Everyone keeps talking about it and referring to it all over the internet. Yet, so far….NO ONE has said what it is or how to do it. So, what is a battery pull and what instructions do you suggest so we all know how to do it? Thanks!

By: mercurio

mercurio — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:24:21 +0000

Maybe if Corinna didn’t communicate like a 12 year old with a severe learning disorder, she might appreciate the ease of collaboration that the Pearl enables. If Corinna’s daddy didn’t buy her the right phone, then maybe it’s a point that she didn’t need such a device with capabilities beyond her limited comprehension.

By: Wahoo

Wahoo — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:40:27 +0000

Thank you for sharing!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:01:10 +0000

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By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:26:35 +0000

I have the blackberry pearl 8100…have had it for about 9-10 months now. For the last few months, my text messages and call logs (missed, received and dialled) get erased periodically. Once it gets erased, if I get a text, it doesnt stay and the calls dont register in the logs till I do a battery pull. The battery pull stops more calls and texts from getting erased and brings back the last dialled calls in June 2007 (weird). This has been happening about twice a month on average. I thought maybe my phone memory was not enough and the phone had to regularly dump information..but I have gotten a media card..and this is still happening. I barely have 2 songs and 4-5 pictures stored on my phone…other than the usual applications that came with the phone. Can anyone offer any solutions/suggestions? The call log is still ok…but its annoying to loose all text messages.