New Cell

[Hazard14 0]

well as of tommorow im goin to the Wireless Store and im gon get my self a new phone, i have narrowed it down to either the Blackberry Pearl or a sidekick 3. leaning towards the pearl though. any oppinions on either of these phones

[mack 44]

Out of the two I'd go with the Pearl but in about a week I'll my iPhone, the trump card of all phones.

[nyhockey6 1]

Maybe it's just me but personally I feel unless you run a business or are a rep for a business, I don't see any sense in having a PDA Phone like the Pearl or a Q like I have (Especially if your a teenager). I was playing pickup roller about a week ago and this kid who was no older than like 15 had a Pearl. I just shook my head and laughed.

[Hazard14 0]

blackberry actualy made the pearl to sell toward the general public, not just business people. mack how much you droppin for the iphone

[D-MaN88 0]

My guess would be either $499 for the 6 gig' or $599 for the 8 gig'. Knowin Mack, he went all out and got the 8 gig'. He makes it rain with a capital R. ;)

[W.Malone 0]

I have owned a bunch of phones, RAZR, Cingular 8125 were the last 2, and I must say that the BlackBerry Pearl is by far the best phone I have ever used. Especially if you get a data plan, internet browsing is quite fast even without WiFi.

[BK 0]

I have owned a bunch of phones, RAZR, Cingular 8125 were the last 2, and I must say that the BlackBerry Pearl is by far the best phone I have ever used. Especially if you get a data plan, internet browsing is quite fast even without WiFi.

I have a pearl. I like it too for nothing else other than its the most customizable phone I have ever had. Webbrowsing is OK at best though. I can't navigate MSH and really, don't have the patience to scroll through the lines and lines of graphics and text to read posts. I wouldn't mind an Iphone just for the internet browsing.

P.s. Download the opera mobile browser. Its 10x better than the standard pearl browser... still no iphone though.

If the iphone doesn't flop and the internet browsing is as nice as Mr. Steve says, then I will probably pick up the cheaper of the 2 versions.

[Vapor 0]

I guess this is the part where I say iphone so.... IPHONE!

[daca 0]

iphone's are pretty sick, but i wouldn't bet on the first generation of them. maybe they'll be solid.

[hockeyherb 1]

I have owned a bunch of phones, RAZR, Cingular 8125 were the last 2, and I must say that the BlackBerry Pearl is by far the best phone I have ever used. Especially if you get a data plan, internet browsing is quite fast even without WiFi.

If the iphone doesn't flop and the internet browsing is as nice as Mr. Steve says, then I will probably pick up the cheaper of the 2 versions.

According to Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone works on AT&T's relatively slow EDGE network so don't expect blazing browser speeds. He said a web page can take up to 30 seconds to load.

[Vapor 0]

The iPhone does only support edge which is EGPRS which has about a 180 kbit per second cap (theoretically). I REALLY dont see why Apple didn't make the iPhone HSPDA compatible. HSPDA is the GSM equivalent of EVDO with speeds up to 3.6 MBit per second. I expect it in future phones... Edge can be fast enough, it just matters where you are and how god your signal strength is.

[BK 0]

The iPhone does only support edge which is EGPRS which has about a 180 kbit per second cap (theoretically). I REALLY dont see why Apple didn't make the iPhone HSPDA compatible. HSPDA is the GSM equivalent of EVDO with speeds up to 3.6 MBit per second. I expect it in future phones... Edge can be fast enough, it just matters where you are and how god your signal strength is.

I have it on my blackberry.

Its ok for a phone.. but when I turn my phone into an external modem, its about dial up speed. I am kind of mad that AT&T/cingular didn't offer 3g for it.

[Hazard14 0]

well i decided to go with the blackberry, quite a sexy phone IMO. nice features, but not such a fan of the suretype

[asdfa 0]

The iPhone does only support edge which is EGPRS which has about a 180 kbit per second cap (theoretically). I REALLY dont see why Apple didn't make the iPhone HSPDA compatible. HSPDA is the GSM equivalent of EVDO with speeds up to 3.6 MBit per second. I expect it in future phones... Edge can be fast enough, it just matters where you are and how god your signal strength is.

I have it on my blackberry.

Its ok for a phone.. but when I turn my phone into an external modem, its about dial up speed. I am kind of mad that AT&T/cingular didn't offer 3g for it.

would this be because of the connection you run your phone to the computer with? (bluetooth or usb?)

[BK 0]

Usb.

But really, the transfer rate on usb is a lot higher than the speeds I am getting.

[M-Cohen 0]

I don't suggest the Pearl, it's hard to type. Though it is a nice looking little phone I'd go with the SK3.

[Hazard14 0]

i actually found it pretty simple to type with, not to hard. i had a SLVR before this and it was deffinatley a vast improvement

[BK 0]

i actually found it pretty simple to type with, not to hard. i had a SLVR before this and it was deffinatley a vast improvement

I was in the exact same situation. Came from a SLVR.

Once you get the hang of it, its a LOT faster than standard txting. Its even faster than a full qwerty keyboard on a cellphone because of predictive text.

[D-MaN88 0]

Thing is though that on most phones that have the full qwerty keyboard are coming standard with predictive text now too.

[Hazard14 0]

if it had a full qwerty keyboard that would be perfect, but they had to sacrifice some stuff for the size, as a comparison to the SLVR the pearl is shorter legnth wise, and only a little wider. but sadly the phone only comes with a 128 mb (i think) micro SD card, once i get some more cash ill upgrade to a 1 gig, since i basically used up all the memory space today adding like 30 songs

[D-MaN88 0]

I had the XV6700 PDA from Verizon but ditched it for the "V" pre-EnV phone. I love the qwerty keyboard as I have used BlackBerrys before. And yes, 1gig or 2gig miniSD cards are a must if you want music. The pearl is a slick little phone though and it would be hard to pass it over if I went back to a gsm network.

[Hazard14 0]

about how many songs would a 1 gig microSD card hold, i filled up the 128 with about 30, so thats no good

[Thockey17 1]

about how many songs would a 1 gig microSD card hold, i filled up the 128 with about 30, so thats no good

Probably around 150.

[Hazard14 0]

thats alot better, plus its only like 45 bucks. thanks man

[Thockey17 1]

thats alot better, plus its only like 45 bucks. thanks man

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820134215

$7.99