BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Review Full Specifications

It might be said that the initial Pearl marked when BlackBerry got its cool. The Pearl was slim, shiny and horny nonetheless sensible. Gone were the times when RIM devices were wide-load, plasticy appendages found on a businessman's belt. This was the populist BlackBerry for teens, students, tiny business homeowners and anyone with a style for portability and magnificence. In fact, the Pearl helped bring the smartphone to the mainstream (quite a moment before the iPhone was released), together with one or two of slim and reasonable Windows Mobile smartphones. That was back within the Fall of 2006, and since its intro, each US carrier has picked up the Pearl and sold them in droves. With the Pearl 8120, we're happy that RIM kept all the great stuff-- that beautiful style, supreme light-weight weight, good build quality, and wonderful trackball for navigation. The BlackBerry 8120 is out there from each AT&T and T-Mobile.

The microSD card slot is fortunately now not beneath the battery and instead lives beneath a door on the phone's left aspect. The slot is SDHC compatible and accepts cards over a pair of gigs in capacity-- given the great media player, that is a precise and for those that need to go away their iPod at home.

As with the initial Pearl, the show resolution is 240 x 260 pixels, and websites do feel cramped with the relative standardization of 240 x 320 QVGA on full QWERTY BlackBerry models just like the Curve in addition as Windows Mobile phones and Nokia S60 devices (N and E Series like the E62 and N75 on AT&T). That said, the show is extraordinarily bright, colourful and sharp-- very nice. And font size is adjustable on RIM devices, therefore you'll squeeze a lot of text in if the lesser resolution gets you down. Photos look sensible on the BlackBerry 8120 and video appearance superb, though the media players does not handle streaming media and there is no MediaNet streaming service since the phone lacks 3G. Unless you are into downloading or ripping your own content, the player is generally helpful for watching video taken with the camera.
WiFi could be a nice addition, though we'd have appreciated a GPS a lot of on the AT&T version since AT&T does not provide voice calls over WiFi (think of BlackBerry 8130 on Verizon, that loses WiFi whereas gaining the GPS). RIM's browser is optimized for the slower EDGE network, and websites do not download considerably faster over WiFi, nor do applications whiz right down (the 990k TeleNav download took over a second on our WiFi 802.11g network at intervals ten feet of the router). there is an icon for the WiFi wizard on the most level of icons (when using the BlackBerry Dimension theme instead of the AT&T theme). It walks you thru connecting to an access purpose and may save people who you employ frequently. When set to automatic, the 8120 connects to access points you've got saved-- you would like no do something. This works smoothly and well. do you have to not need the phone to go looking for and hook up with access points you'll set it to manual affiliation mode.
The Pearl heralded in multimedia to the BlackBerry portfolio, and therefore the 8120 extremely starts to feature some meat to media playback. The new Pearl has A2DP for stereo Bluetooth headsets and headphones, and it actually sounded nice once we tested it with the Plantronics Pulsar 590. Bass is beefy, there is sensible separation and clear highs. AT&T and RIM embody a wired stereo headset (a relative rarity these days) and therefore the 8120 encompasses a customary three.5mm jack therefore you'll use your favorite headphones for music playback. The music player supports unprotected MP3, AAC and WMA files.

The video player handles MPEG4, WMV and H.264 files and that we found it less picky regarding video codecs when testing MP4 files compared previous BlackBerry phones. RIM includes Windows desktop software which will convert video into Pearl-friendly format, that greatly simplifies things. Video playback is OK, though files encoded beyond 350kbps dropped frames.

For those of you who are into AT&T's Push to speak service (are there any of you out there?), the BlackBerry 8120 for AT&T supports PTT and encompasses a dedicated button on the left aspect for PTT calls.


BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Specifications
General
2G Network : GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced : 2007, October
Status : Available

Size
Dimensions : 107 x 50 x 14 mm
Weight : 91 g

Display
Type : 65K colors
Size : 240 x 260 pixels, 2.2 inches
- Half-QWERTY keyboard

Sound
Alert types : Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker : Yes
3.5mm jack : Yes

Memory
Phonebook : Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records : Yes
Internal : 32 MB RAM, 64 MB ROM
Card slot : microSD, up to 4GB,

Data
GPRS : Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE : Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G : No
WLAN : Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth : Yes, v2.0
Infrared port : No
USB : Yes, miniUSB v2.0

Camera
Primary : 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, LED flash
Video : Yes
Secondary : No

Features
OS : BlackBerry OS
CPU : 32-bit Intel XScale PXA272 312 MHz processor
Messaging : SMS, MMS, Email, IM
Browser : HTML
Radio : No
Games : Yes + downloadable
Colors : Titanium, Blue, Sunset
GPS : No
Java : Yes
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA player
- Organizer
- Voice memo/dial

Battery : Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh
Stand-by : Up to 360 h
Talk time : Up to 4 h
Misc
SAR US : 1.48 W/kg (head) 1.39 W/kg (body)
SAR EU : 1.26 W/kg (head) 1.01 W/kg (body)