Blackberry Pearl

Ok well I have a blackberry pearl. And my mom has the new iphone.

I like the pearl, email is a amazing (up to 10 accounts to the one phone) and typing/texting is alright. you get used to it and there are many different options to go about typing. it also remembers words and has a custom vocab list.

the internet is alright, its not the ebst webrowsing but the other options i feel make the phone usable. I would shop around and get some play time with the different phones your looking at. I like the pearl, its small and fits my needs. My dad loves it for buisness because it keeps him busy.

It has multiple different instant messaging program/options which also works with me.

An issue I guess I have is not being to load EVERY website, and the size of the screen when "surfing" the net. I bearly surf because its not the best thing ever. I check movie times and the like and my gf has checked her email on it occasionally so it works but its not super amazing. For web browsing the screen isnt ideal but you live with the size. I am not sure if you have any other questions but many people will probably answer feel free to pm me if you life I guess. Or I will post here.

Hope this helps, now to read the rest of this thread to see if there is anything else I can help with.
 
thanks for the info. I understand about the whole browsing problem but like jared and others posted there are downlodable programs (opera mini) that help w/ this and make browsing easier :)
Ok well I have a blackberry pearl. And my mom has the new iphone.

I like the pearl, email is a amazing (up to 10 accounts to the one phone) and typing/texting is alright. you get used to it and there are many different options to go about typing. it also remembers words and has a custom vocab list.

the internet is alright, its not the ebst webrowsing but the other options i feel make the phone usable. I would shop around and get some play time with the different phones your looking at. I like the pearl, its small and fits my needs. My dad loves it for buisness because it keeps him busy.

It has multiple different instant messaging program/options which also works with me.

An issue I guess I have is not being to load EVERY website, and the size of the screen when "surfing" the net. I bearly surf because its not the best thing ever. I check movie times and the like and my gf has checked her email on it occasionally so it works but its not super amazing. For web browsing the screen isnt ideal but you live with the size. I am not sure if you have any other questions but many people will probably answer feel free to pm me if you life I guess. Or I will post here.

Hope this helps, now to read the rest of this thread to see if there is anything else I can help with.
 
thanks for the info. I understand about the whole browsing problem but like jared and others posted there are downlodable programs (opera mini) that help w/ this and make browsing easier :)

I will have to look into that, but then again I have a mac (OH NOES EVERYONE HERE HATES THEM) and the phone is not super compatible with it, I need to figure out how to do it.

I love the phone truth be told and I use its simple functions. You can use your razer charger with it, if you text with the razer the transition will not be all that bad. I love the phone, its great. I feel the camera sucks, but thats just me. And I never really use a camera on a phone anyway. the trackball is awesome I feel. A downfall I have found with it, compared to the razer, is that for an alarm you can only set one at a time. Not sure if you care for this but its a trade off for me. The razor can have upto 3 different alarm times its why I state this.
 
Just checking. I know way too many people who didn't buy any sort of data plan and then got destroyed on their first cell phone bill.

When I first got my phone, verizon family plan, I didn't know all the terms and crap since it was just given to me. Anyway I decided to use AIM on the phone for a month and ended up with like 12,000 text messages at a dime a piece. I ended up buying into their texting plan to get out of that bill, which I think is like 5,000 texts and I stopped using the AIM function and only standard text message now.

I can't make this stuff up folks.
 
BTW, i just tested this, works awesome. Sent an email from work to phonenumber@cingularme.com and it came to my phone as a text and when i replied to my phone it was sent back to me as an email.

So replace sending it from my work email to sending it from my BB email and its spectacular :)

I also updated the cingular w/ the new text address
to send texts via email (according to the internet, never actually done it):

T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular/AT&T: phonenumber@txt.att.net
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
 
crackberry.com is way better

plus its an insight to what this phone will become to you, a serious addiction
 
my favorite thread on crackberry (besides the free program downloads) was "Do you blackberry while sitting on the John?" I believe the poll showed 98% yes with most common response "who needs a newspaper or magazine when you have phone, IM, email, and internet" lol
 

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