A year on and RIM’s sleek-looking BlackBerry Pearl has been given a makeover, with a brand new purply-blue handset for people who wish to ring the changes (a black version continues to be available). additional importantly, our tests prove that the refinements to the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 aren’t simply cosmetic.
For a begin, you currently get Wi-Fi further as GPRS and GPRS/Edge connectivity. Out and concerning in mid-Kent, the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 quickly found 2 or 3 Wi-Fi networks that we have a tendency to may go surfing to if we have a tendency to selected, helped by the actual fact that 02 has hitched itself to The Cloud.
02 minimises the quality BlackBerry screen muddle by reducing the BlackBerry Pearl 8120's main screen to a variety of 5 main applications – Messages, the secondary email inbox came upon for this trial, a twin SMS and MMS alert, Calendar and Address Book. Below this is often the quality BlackBerry icon that you click on to access the additional acquainted BlackBerry screen.
As before, it’s a breeze to urge on-line and to send and retrieve email. Prompts seem when required – and solely then. Most helpfully, the BlackBerry Pearl 8120
's wireless radio icon currently pops up to Manage All Connections. You’re asked whether or not you would like to show on the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Mobile Network or activate the ton in one go.We took the 8120 out and concerning in mid-Kent, where it quickly found 2 or 3 Wi-Fi networks that we have a tendency to may go surfing to if we have a tendency to selected. 02 has hitched itself to The Cloud for iPhone functions and introduced flatrate monthly net access rates for alternative contract handsets, thus this is often an honest possibility if you would like to urge on-line often.
For times after you have to be compelled to get a handle on where you're, the Pearl has Maps in-built. whereas no match for the detailed and additional localised Vodafone Maps of the newest BlackBerry Curve, it's nonetheless a helpful inclusion for anyone travelling long-distance and desirous to get a fix on where they're.
This BlackBerry Pearl 8120 will multimedia much better too: the 2Mp camera (with 5x zoom selectable via the central rollerball navigator and automatic flash) created some surprisingly smart snaps, even in low lightweight. The memory is currently expandable too, via microSD card. Slot one in and you may be able to capture video to it (you still solely get 64MB flash memory onboard).
BlackBerry Pearl 8120 review Full 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)
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