The colour scheme is dark blue and chrome with the latter used for the left, right and upper edges and various highlights, while the front and back fascias are predominantly blue. I hated SureType (which I’ll get to properly in a couple of paragraphs), and the features on the device just weren’t good enough to keep me happy.īut RIM has taken on board a lot of the criticisms I and others made of the original Pearl, and of BlackBerry handhelds in general, and the Pearl 8120, while not perfect, is an improvement I think many people could live with.Īlso, regardless of the feature improvements, this new Pearl is a cute looking device. The original Pearl didn’t quite do it for me. But with the Pearl 8120 I think I am going to switch allegiance. There still are the larger format devices, and most recently of all I reviewed the 8820, which I’ve been using thanks to RIM ever since penning the review back in August. So, this year we’ve seen the arrival of the QWERTY-keyboarded Curve and, just before the that, the candybar style BlackBerry Pearl. It started adding features to devices and making them prettier too, in a bid to appeal to out-and-out consumers and those business people who like a bit of style. Then BlackBerry maker Research In Motion decided it could do more. The combination of staid looks and feature-deprivation was enough of a double whammy for some to avoid the BlackBerry altogether. No music playback and no camera, for example. There was a time when anyone looking to a BlackBerry to deliver their mobile email was going to have to carry a fairly large and not too pretty device around, and know that while their pocket computer was good at email it wasn’t good at much else.
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