Blackberry Pearl 3G Review

What may well come as s shock though is how the BlackBerry Pearl 3G’s overall performance also matches the Blackberry bold 9700. It uses the same processor, has 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS, and is blindingly quickly for its size as a result: we’d go as far as to say that it zips around RIM Operating-system 5. quicker than last year’s Bold. Our longstanding issues with the BlackBerry browser and its particular insufficient tabs disappear at this small screen size too, especially since it loads page so snappily.

 

Battery life is shorter on the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, sure: with a 1150mAHr battery instead of 1500, you’ll only get a day’s use out of it as opposed to a full weekend, but that’s just enough. And not every app runs on it yet due to unusual screen ratio: useful tools like Google Maps and Sync, Facebook and Foursquare all run fine, but Evernote and PayPal, among big name applications, do not. Though the shelves of the BlackBerry App World for it are still well stocked, and every plugin we tested worked fine.

 

Since it stands, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G is one of the fastest, most feature filled candy bar phones we’ve ever used: we can’t realistically see Nokia matching it which consists of upcoming Symbian S60 Nokia C5 handset. But there’s another big change, and it’s likely a deal breaker: the -9 keyboard. Existing Pearl owners will be surprised and perhaps annoyed by this, after years of practice arising to scorching WPM counts with the two-letters to a key layout that’s being made an option in the us, but not Europe.

 

We get into the BlackBerry Pearl 3G’s messaging skills in much more detail in our typing review, but suffice to convey that it can’t quite reach the same speeds. Therefore, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G is for people upgrading from something like a Nokia 6700 than downgrading from a QWERTY BlackBerry like the Curve 8520, or maybe more recent Nokia E series. Although SureType is smart at learning new words, it’s still a struggle to type out properly formatted full length emails, and due to this fact you may be put off by doing that: it is a phone for people who value casual emailing friends over BlackBerry Messenger over sending crucial memos back to the office.