Blackberry Pearl 8100 Mobile

Blackberry is a leading brand which manufactures mobile handsets. Blackberry is primarily associated with providing handsets for executives and businessmen due to its superior email capabilities. With launch of Blackberry Pearl 8100 mobile, Blackberry has stepped into the field of providing multimedia in its handsets. Although this phone has nothing revolutionary if compared to other phones but it is popular PDA device due its brand popularity and new features. In this phone, Blackberry has, for the first time, introduced built-in camera, music playback, video and expandable memory. This phone is appreciated by the broad section of user than just business people.

Design
Appearance of this Blackberry mobile is quite charming. It has a sleek form factor which is an instant hot among consumers for its sexy looks. Its dimensions are 4.2 x2.0x0.5 inches and it weighs just 3.1 ounces. You have choice of black and white colors. This phone looks elegant from its predecessors from Blackberry. Due to its slim design, it looks more of candybar handset rather than a smartphone which it is. And again, due to its slim avatar, it is more convenient to slip this device into your pant pocket or purse. Due to its solid built, it is quite convenient to hold this phone near your ears while taking calls.

Features and Performance
This Blackberry has quite effective display with high resolution (240x320)2.25" TFT screen and 65K colors. Pictures and images you get on this screen are very sharp, clear and crisp. This phone has light-sensing features. Due to this features, the screen and the keypad of the phone get adjust according to the brightness of the light falling on it. Like in other Blackberry phone, this phone also does not have a touchscreen. It has a 20key type pad instead of QWERTY keypad where each key represents two shared characters. You can capture your short precious moments with its 1.3 Megapixel camera which has 5x digital zoom. A small LED is there to indicate the different status by illuminating with different colors. Other impressive features of this phone include Bluetooth Connectivity, EDGE technology, GPRS, an impressive music player, microSDcard for memory expansion and its main function- remote email access.

This Blackberry mobile phones gives great functionality and performance. It quickly launches its programs and it easily gets shift between applications. Though camera does not delivers great pictures but still satisfactory performance. Also slow keypad frustrates few times. Overall performance of the phone is good.

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