Expected May 2010 26th Apr 2010
We oasis’t seen much from RIM in the past tense year or so, although handset gross sales rich person been very strong scorn our misgivings about the BlackBerry manufacturer’s stream direction.
The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is the first new Pearl "candy bar" headphone since the 8110 announced over deuce days ago, and it’s the first base Pearl handset to documentation 3G. It’s amazing to think that the Pearl has come all this means without 3G support, but in fact criterion electronic messaging trading operations really father’t motivation anything more than plain old GPRS.
This is more than the old edition of the Pearl with 3G support slapped on, the Pearl 3G comes with a very high gear solving 360 x 400 pel exhibit, a 3.2 megapixel photographic camera with flash and autofocus, support for 802.11 b, g and n wireless local area network (ace of the few phones that supports the new, faster 802.11n protocol). Inside is a 624Mhz C.P.U. (twice as fast as the 8110) and 256MB memory. The Pearl 3G has GPS documentation built in, and it supports Bluetooth 2.1 and microSD memory cards up to 32GB as well.
The operating system and drug user interface has been upgraded to version 5.0 of the BlackBerry OS, and it now supports synching with iTunes and Windows Media Player. From what we can see of the drug user interface, the whole thing matter has been tidied up from the previous version which looked rather cluttered.
One key feature is that the Pearl 3G has dropped the trackball on the front and has replaced it with a small optical trackpad. In our experience the trackpad is much easier to manipulation than the old trackball, and it should be more resilient too. There are dedicated media keys on the very top of the Pearl 3G to make medicine playback easier.
There are two different versions of the Pearl 3G, the 9100 comes with a familiar spirit version of the SureType keyboard, the 9105 uses a traditional mobile phone layout for the keypad which whitethorn wellspring appealingness to new customers. The overall designing is much smarter and more conventional than previous versions of the Pearl, and it’s nice to see a capable messaging smartphone in a such a pouch friendly design.
The large 1150 mAh battery is quoted as gift up to 5.5 hours talktime on 3G networks, and overall the Pearl 3G weighs just 93 grams and measures 108 x 50 x 13mm. This is a tri-banding UMTS/HSDPA device with documentation for quadrangle-band GSM, so we expect this to twist up on tons of different carriers worldwide.
RIM say that the Pearl 3G should be available from May 2010 onwards, although at the consequence we rich person no steering on pricing or networks.
BlackBerry Pearl 3G Promo Video
This is a legal brief promo from RIM showing how impossibly glamorous your sprightliness will be if you buy ace of these.