Blackberry Pearl

[King Cnvt]

The killer is the 3 seconds of silence when you answer a call. Pathetic. How do they get away with such a crap product?

[basshead]

I have a Pearl and its great for email and SMS but is falling apart, scratched and ugly after 10 months use, and also the locking features on it are utter sh*te and I'm often ringing/SMSing/Email customers from my pocket at 7am as I stagger out of bed

Its also slow to answer calls which is pretty fundamental, a couple of seconds of 'hello? hello?' often results.

The speaker is sh*te, the camera is sh*te and the keyboard is a pain to get used to, but the browser is half decent and hooking it up via USB gives a mass storage device and its also easy to set up the modem.

I wouldn't get a BlackBerry again to be honest, back to Nokia for me.

[sathyaram_s]

I have Nokia E61 with T-Mobile web n walk. It has generally been good other than occassional (7-8 times in 10 months) 'hang' . You can configure POP mail just like you would on your computer. I download Yahoo and Google mails, sometimes with auto-refresh.


The browser, screen resolution, keyboard - all good. Webnwalk is 1GB softlimit on downloads and in my experience, more than sufficient.

E61 is available from Orange, 3, O2 also IIRC.

[Darren@UptonAccountants]

Blackberry

I've had one of these for just under a year, it's falling apart and that's with minimum usage.....it's constantly coming up with errors on screen and rebooting itself.

The bigger versions seem to be a bit better and reliable.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

Thanks for the info it makes sense now. i did just look at the Curve and may need to compare the two.

[Clippy]

I have a Curve - the one with the full keyboard.
It's on O2 - other carriers may be different - but they give you an email address (me@o2email.co.uk or something) for admin and with that you can set up numerours other accounts, i've got 2 gmail, 1 hotmail & an IMAP all sent to the phone.

I think (not sure) that the O2 servers poll your accounts then push your mails to you when you've got something.

Only had it a week but I like it.

My mate had the Pearl, but couldn't get on with the keyboard.

The curve is smaller and more stylish - more like a mobile phone.

As MM says, your O2 email account 'connects' to your POP3 accounts and regularly 'grabs' any emails and forwards them onto your Blackberry.

[Moscow Mule]

I have a Curve - the one with the full keyboard.
It's on O2 - other carriers may be different - but they give you an email address (me@o2email.co.uk or something) for admin and with that you can set up numerours other accounts, i've got 2 gmail, 1 hotmail & an IMAP all sent to the phone.

I think (not sure) that the O2 servers poll your accounts then push your mails to you when you've got something.

Only had it a week but I like it.

My mate had the Pearl, but couldn't get on with the keyboard.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

Looking at getting one os these. Anyone got one ??? any review comments about it. Am i right in thinking that i can get my e-mail on it e.g via say a Tiscali account / Hotmail account ?? or do you need a certain e-mail server to benefit from this function on blackberry.