Blackberry Pearl 9100 3G
Some of the more capable smartphones on the planet are your so-called business smartphones whose real advantage is a secure internet connectivity that many paranoid companies love to equip their employees with.
Its pedigreed smartphone prowess gets spiced up when they put in the features the market has come to expect even in mundane feature phones. The Blackberry Pearl 9100 3G is one such phone aimed at the business crowd that often prefers the full QWERTY of a typical Blackberry but the non-business community will surely welcome a half-QWERTY candybar from the brand. It even comes with color options to choose from with piano black, flash white, red gradient, royal purple and opal pink.
While housed in the signature candybar, the 9100 3G uses a half-QWERTY keypad on a body measuring 108 x 50 x 13.3mm weighing a pocket-friendly 93.6g. It’s not anywhere as slim as the Nokia E72, but it gets a powerful 624 MHz CPU running the latest Blackberry OS 6.0.
Superb features
The Pearl 9100 3G, as its name points out, is a 3G phone, to distinguish it as one above its other mediocre line up that has no 3G at a time when many other phones have them already.
Its 3G sits on a tri band UMTS with versions for US and European markets. It gets only HSDPA at 3.5 Mbps. Local high speed data connectivity gets hotspot internet surfing support with WiFi 802.11b/g/n. There’s Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 for high speed wireless and wired local data transfers and syncing, respectively.
SatNav functionality is supported from its built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS and preloaded with Blackberry maps.
A half-VGA resolution and 256k color support brings its squarish screen in line with the best non-touchscreens in the market. A touch-sensitive optical trackpad gives its non-touchscreen feature an added advantage in navigating your way through its menu structure that gets a new look with the new Blackberry OS 6.0.
Imaging gets the backseat as in all other Blackberry smartphones with a 3.2 megapixel snapper with autofocus and LED flash and basic video recording, but no secondary camera to support 3G video calls for a handset with the 3G in its name.
Its multimedia features lacks the standard stereo FM radio with RDS features you can find in other handsets of its class, but its capable media players are among the better ones with support for audio playback in the MP3, WMA, WAV and eAAC+ file formats and video playback in the MP4, H.263/H.264 and WMV video file codecs.
The handset even comes with dedicated music keys suggesting that Blackberry designed the 9100 3G as a multimedia phone. It comes with a 3.5mm audio jack for using wired high fidelity headsets. Its Bluetooth A2DP profile allows wireless stereo listening.
The 9100 3G gets a generous 256 MB of internal memory with micro SD external memory expansion support for up to 32 GB. Its sales package even includes a 2GB microSD card free. Its 1150 mAh Li-Ion battery yields 5.5 hours of talk time on 2G and 30 hours on standby on a single full charge. You can find the best BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 deals as well as Pearl 3G 9105 offers by visiting Moby1, where you can compare mobile phone offers for the latest handsets.
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