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The BlackBerry® Pearl 8100 smartphone is one of the smallest PDA phones released by RIM. The Pearl PDA phone doesn’t feature a full QWERTY keyboard like other BlackBerry PDAs, however, it does comes equipped with a half-QWERTY SureType® QWERTY-style keyboard with SureType software. Other features of the BlackBerry Pearl includes its well-known secured email support, web browser, text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer applications, 1.3-Megapixel digital camera, MP3 music player, and video player.

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BlackBerry Pearl Features and Specifications

Hardware Specifications

Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
Weight 3.1 oz / 87.9 g
Size / Dimension 4.2″ (Length) x 1.97″ (Width) x 0.57″ (Height)


10.67 cm (Length) x 5 cm (Width) x 1.45 cm
Operating System BlackBerry OS
Processor 312 MHz Intel XScale
RAM 32 MB SDRAM
ROM 64 MB ROM
Internal LCD Screen 65K colors TFT / Ambient Light Sensor screen (240 x 260 pixels)
External LCD Screen No
Battery Type Lithium Ion 900 mAh
Battery Life Talk: 3.5 hours
Standby: 360 hours   (15 days)
Internal Memory Space 64 MB
Speakerphone Yes
Expandable Memory Slot Yes. MicroSD (TransFlash)
QWERTY Keyboard

No. SureType® QWERTY-style keyboard with SureType software (Keyboard)

Voice Activated Dialing Yes
GPS System / GPS Navigation Yes
Modem RIM® wireless modem

Email, Messanging and Office Functionalities

Email Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Microsoft® Exchange
Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for IBM® Lotus® Domino®
Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Novell® GroupWise®
Integrates with an existing enterprise email account
Integrates with existing personal email account
Integrates with optional new device account
EMS Yes
MMS Yes
Internet Browsing / WAP Yes. WAP 2.0 (xHTML)
Device Security
  • Password protection and keyboard lock
  • Support for AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 2
  • Optional support for S/MIME
Instant Messaging Yes. AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!

Digital Camera

Mega Pixel 1.3
AutoFocus Yes
Flash Yes
Maximum Resolution 1280 x 1024 pixels

Music and Audio

MP3 Player Yes. Supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ Music Files
Playlist Yes
Shuffle Yes
FM Radio No

Video and Camcorder

Video Player Yes. Supports MPEG4, H.263 formats Video Clip Files
Video Recorder Yes

Connectivity

Bluetooth Yes
Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP) Yes
Infrared No
Wi-Fi (WLAN) No
USB Yes. miniUSB
TV Output No
HeadPhone Jack (3.5mm) Yes
Computer Synchronization Yes

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User Reviews

  1. jay Says:

    Video and Camcorder
    Video Player Yes. Supports MPEG4, H.263 formats Video Clip Files
    Video Recorder Yes

    i think you may need to check that!

  2. George Says:

    You are mistaken, the Pearl also does NOT support Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP)

  3. Alan Says:

    Actually, the Pearl hardware DOES support a Bluetooth Headset - however, RIM has disabled it in software. Try this:

    1. Make sure your Bluetooth headset is active - make a test call and then hang-up.
    2. Start playing an audio media file.
    3. Switch from speaker phone to internal handset speaker (BB button, “Activate Handset Speaker”).
    4. Call your BB from another phone.
    5. Answer the call - it should automatically pause the audio playback and pickup the call on your Bluetooth headset. Make sure that you can hear the phone conversation on the BT headset by inanely asking yourself “Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?”
    6. Now for the proof - hang up the phone call.
    7. For just a few seconds you’ll hear your media file restart playing on your Bluetooth headset - then the Pearl software will catch up - oops - that’s a media file - I’m not allowed to send that to the BT headset and redirects it to the internal handset speaker.

    The whole point is that RIM has apparently made a decision not to allow the media player to use BT headsets - while the hardware does support it. I have opened a ticket with RIM requesting that they fix this (as a bug report) - so I can use my BT headset to listen to media files - and it regularly gets closed citing “no response from customer” and then I call back and re-open it.

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