BlackBerry Pearl with QWERTY?

Posted by on Feb 12, 2007 in Business, Gadget, Innovation, Money, Personal | 3 comments

Blackberry PearlI can’t seem to get my Blackberry Pearl to work properly. It should be able to email photos instead of MMS them. The solution seems to be to upgrade the software but Vodafone doesn’t have any plans to do this. You could download an (semi)illegal OS from Bangkok and install that but I couldn’t even get that working.

Blackberry 8700So now I have been using the Blackberry Pearl just as a smaller replacement to my former Blackberry 8700. I have been tempted to switch back to my Blackberry 8700 because I miss the qwerty keyboard but every time I pick it up it seems enormous compared to the Pearl and I just can’t imagine carrying such a big tool in my pants again. (yeah, insert joke there)

Blakberry 8800Well, today Blackberry introduced the BlackBerry 8800. Its a Blackberry Pearl but with QWERTY, but without a camera. Sigh.

It does have GPS but how cool would it have been if they would have just added a camera too? I don’t know why it is so hard to get me the ultimate blogging tool. The features are simple: small, wireless, synchonised, easy to use, build in camera, qwerty keyboard, small.

They are almost there. Just add a damn camera!

Here is the pimped up BlackBerry 8800 site.

3 Comments

  1. Bram
    February 12, 2007

    Releasing such a ‘crippled’ blackberry isn’t very smart when you’ve got a new competitor coming to the market this summer with such a great device and yes i mean the iphone which is going to have an 2mp camera.

    I have a windows mobile device and i’m not very pleased with it because it’s so slow and cluttered (like you would expect from a windows platform) and it doesn’t sync well with a mac.

    I guess we all have to wait until summer.

  2. edgar neo
    February 12, 2007

    tried the blackberry myself and it didn’t work for me like all the reasons (and many many more) boris stated here…

    so, i am glad too that there’s coming a competitor to the market and like boris i’m getting it for free :D

  3. Otto
    February 15, 2007

    maybe you should take a look at the Nokia E61i, just annouced at 3GSM, sounds like it does everything you want. I have the E61 myself, which is great but doesn’t have a camera like the E61i

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