BlackBerry Pearl 8100 unboxing
by Peter Rojas 
posted Sep 18th 2006 at 11:23AM
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.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Johnny Donato @ Jan 10th 2007 2:03AM
aww.. it's soo tiny
Keith @ 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 @ Sep 18th 2006 12:45PM
Very very nice. Would've been nice to compare with another Smartphone like the SDA.
anthony Dalesandro @ 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...
Keith M. @ 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.
Damion Michaels @ 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.
Joel Winn @ Sep 18th 2006 8:33PM
Mines still hasnt shipped...currently its one oclock pacific tiime and i ordered it at midnight on the 12th :-(
zach @ Sep 18th 2006 4:51PM
Anthony, I will get one of these and trade you for a K790i. I need the 3.2mp camera.
Joel Winn @ 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....
Steven Stoll @ 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...?