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    Blackberry Pearl

    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.
    Thats the way the cookie crumbles

    #2
    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 ([email protected] 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.
    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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      #3
      Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
      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 ([email protected] 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.

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        #4
        Thanks for the info it makes sense now. i did just look at the Curve and may need to compare the two.
        Thats the way the cookie crumbles

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          #5
          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.

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            #6
            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.

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              #7
              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.

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                #8
                The killer is the 3 seconds of silence when you answer a call. Pathetic. How do they get away with such a crap product?

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