BlackBerry Pearl 8100 unboxing

T-Mobile sent us an, um, "official" loaner of the new BlackBerry Pearl the other day, and of course we documented the unboxing ceremony. Not super-exciting -- you'd think RIM and T-Mobile would have gone to more trouble for what they're billing as the "Best BlackBerry Evar!" -- but then again you won't feel guilty about throwing away the box. Click on for the pics.









Side-by-side with the Treo 700p. It honestly does't seem much bigger than a SLVR compared with the Treo.




This thing LOVES fingerprints.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2007 2:03AM]

aww.. it's soo tiny

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 12:44PM]

Does it come with any programs for reading/editing Office documents? If not, are there any third party apps that do so?

[Mark Larson Posted Sep 18th 2006 12:45PM]

Very very nice. Would've been nice to compare with another Smartphone like the SDA.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 12:52PM]

Just got mine on the 13th also. I kind of liked the charger from the 7100. It was a plug in unit with a USB to mini-USB cable. It saved me bringing 1 cable on trips since the USB to mini-USB cable also worked for my camera!

I did get it to work as a modem with my MacBook Pro via BlueTooth! Still waiting for the case, though...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 2:18PM]

I LOVE IT! Fingerprint-ability and trackball ring silencing be damned, this is a really solid phone.

Oh and to the other Keith (#1), It cannot out-of-the-box open Office files, but there are programs on RIM's Handango website available for download that will.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 2:42PM]

Dalesandro:

Any way you can post how you got the 8100 to act as a modem via bluetooth?

That would be awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 8:33PM]

Mines still hasnt shipped...currently its one oclock pacific tiime and i ordered it at midnight on the 12th :-(

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 4:51PM]

Anthony, I will get one of these and trade you for a K790i. I need the 3.2mp camera.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2006 8:34PM]

Well its now 5:30p.m. pacific time and i stil havent gotten it....getting pretty tired of running 2 the door every time a truck passes....

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2006 8:18PM]

Has anyone figured out how to convert over to Cingular (without issues) yet? I want to stay with ole reliable however want to have a little innovation in the hand as well....Help a brother out...?