RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Cell Phone

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Research in Motion, makers of the famous Blackberry handsets, has unleashed its new cell phone into the consumer market. The BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Cell Phone. The phone delivers great multimedia features along with its famous email features in a small, sleek package.

What will attract users to this handset is the fact that this phone is the first Blackberry Pearl to support Wi-Fi. This let’s the device have increased boost in speed when users do web-surfing and/or email access. Furthermore, the 8120 gives outstanding software for multimedia management and a better camera that captures video and stills.

The handset is formed with a candy-bar style design. Most people are quite impressed with how the device looked. It has come a short but different way from its previous predecessors. This elegant phone is solidly crafted and weighs in at about 3.2 ounces, and measures 4.2 inches in length, a hair less than 2 inches wide, and slightly more than half an inch thick.

The Pearl infuses this design with RIM’s unique SureType keyboard that places letters in a QWERTY position. Its SureType software allows users to easily type in the words that they want written. This makes typing on the Pearl very very easy.

Another thing that is worth mentioning is the 8120’s display screen. It has a 240-by-260 display that is small, yet very crisp and clear. On-screen colors dimmed in bright sunlight, but the content was always readable. Navigation was straightforward using the swiveling Pearl trackball, the menu button, and the back buttons on either side of it. The device has volume controls and a camera button on the right side; on the left is a port for charging and USB connections, and a rubbery Push-to-Talk button.

RIM’s Blackberry has been famous, and still is, for its email functions. Its excellent support for corporate and business email platforms makes it one of the best, and preferred, device for businessmen that are always on the go. The Pearl 8120 is no exception. You can easily sync Lotus Notes address book entries, calendar and to-do list via USB cable on this device. Users with access to push mail via a BlackBerry Enterprise Server will be up and running in a few moments more. Also, the 8120 can set up accounts with popular Web, POP3, and IMAP servers very quickly.

Its quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support means you can use it for voice calls throughout most of the world, with data coming in at roughly dial-up speed in locations where Wi-Fi isn’t an option.

The 8120’s two-megapixel still camera took pretty good photos, especially in low-light situations where its built-in flash really made a difference. And the device’s software made it easy to crop a portrait for use as a thumbnail that appears on the screen when that person calls.

The camera’s 5X digital zoom was not impressive, though. Videos are a bit grainy when played back on, say, a PC.

However, the 8120’s other multimedia features were outstanding, especially for a handset this small. A good example for this is the bundled Media Manager application went well beyond the usual PC-to-handset copying capabilities of these types of programs. It figured out which tunes were DRM-free and therefore worth transferring.

The quality of the audio was first-rate, both through the device’s own stereo speakers and the bundled earbud headset.

Given its design and complete feature set, there’s no doubt that the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8120 will rule the market and crush competitors out of the way.

Sources:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk
http://www.trustedreviews.com
http://www.cnet.com.au