BlackBerry phones have always been associated with the business users and most importantly QWERTY keypad. With BlackBerry Pearl series the company is hoping to widen its horizon and caters to the needs of the consumers in general. BlackBerry 9105 Pearl 3G White is simple, nice and compact handset which features standard numeric keypad. This is a big step by the BlackBerry to do away with the QWERTY keypad. Can this step towards gaining the confidence of the consumers prove fruitful? Read on to find out.
Handset
First look of the phone gives you the impression that this device belongs to the Pearl series. Pearl 9105 3G White is stunning compact phone with wavy structure having the dimensions of 108mm x 50mm x 13mm and weight of only 93 grams making it portable to be carried with you in your pocket or in hand anyway you like.
Below the display there is track pad which now sits comfortably in place of trackball. It is much smoother and easier to navigate through the screen. The edges of the phone sports a black strip which consist of diverse buttons like camera shutter, volume and voice dial which is a great innovation. Also there is 3.5mm jack and micro USB control as well.
To make the phone all more consumer oriented the media keys has been placed on the top which can be controlled while phone is in your pocket. Besides headphone jack is on the sides.
Display of the phone is TFT of 2.2 inches with resolution of 360 x 400 pixels. Though screen is average in size but works fine and produces clear and quality pictures to view on the screen.
Keypad
There is keypad as opposed to keyboard which has always remained the highlight of BlackBerry phones. This is by far the most conventional handset by RIM in order to suffice to the consumers who still haven’t got one. There are 14 numeric layouts along with adapted Sure Type of Predictive text which works on T9 Style.
Operating system and user interface
BlackBerry 9105 Pearl 3G White is operating on BlackBerry OS 5, upgradable having user interface which is lined with several icons and menus. There are several apps present in the phone which can be reached by pushing the BlackBerry button. Though the numbers of apps present are around 7,000 in number which is far less than the Apple. But most of them provided are good to use.
Social networking
Blackberry 9105 Pearl 3G white has social networking integrations like Facebook and Twitter in the phone. Though not as fully developed like Timescape in Sony Ericssson which provides all your SN notification under single menu. You can still get the updates from your friend through notification on your home screen.
Email is the strength of the BlackBerry phones which none can match up. Push mail is present in the device which gives you access to your mails.
Connectivity
The high speed connectivity to the web is obtained through the support of the integrations like 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS and EDGE. Through HTML browser you can surf all web pages and scroll and zoom through them with the help of the touch sensitive track pad. Even though the screen is small you can still browse the web to garner important information and check your mails.
Bluetooth and USB are also supported to enable data transfer from one source to another like music, videos images or documents.
Camera
The snapper at the back is 3.15 MP which is better than the 2MP which was found in its predecessor. The pictures captured are satisfactory if not brilliant. Other supporting features include LED Flash to make the pictures bright even in DIM light conditions, image stabilization and autofocus to focus on the object automatically rather doing it manually. Picture can be zoomed to 2.5 x digital zoom. The pictures are sharper and contain high contrast with resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels.
Media
Since the screen size is small there is not much you can do with videos. The video supported are MPEG4, H.263, H.264 and WMV3 formats. The videos produced are not more than a nice of stamp and further there is no option to expand these.
There are music keys on the top of the phone making it a music centric phone. Music player supports MP3, eAAC+, WMA, Flac and Ogg Vorbis formats. Even then the music quality is not that good. If you increase your headphones to descent pair it could provide some relief. Also with 12 pre-set equalizer you can customize the sound quality further.
Internal memory of the phone is 256MB which is expandable to 32GB through micros card slot. In the memory card 2GB card has already been given to allow storage of assorted data.
Battery
Battery is standard Li-Ion 1150 mAh which gives long lasting power backup. As the phone is supporting both 2G and 3G. The standby time comes out to be 432 hours in 2G and 312 hours in 3G. Talk time is approximately 5 hours on both the frequency networks. Play unlimited music for 30 hours at a stretch.
Verdict
BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105 is the great offering from the RIM to allure the consumers towards the range of BlackBerry phones. The device comes equipped with all the latest features of 3G , Wi-Fi , 3.2 MP camera and extraordinary Email capabilities. The only downfall of this handset is the presence of the alphanumeric keypad on its wavy build.
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