At first glance, nothing distinguishes this Pearl of his predecessors, apart from its original keyboard in its vague and discreet pearl disappears to make room for the mini trackpad. However, RIM was sporting a 3G chip, hence the trade name of Pearl 3G. The manufacturer has been slow to implement the third-generation telephony within the terminals and families after Bold and Curve, the Pearl is the turn of integrating a smart wireless broadband.
As seen with other manufacturers, 3G offers true comfort top navigation but at the expense of autonomy. The chips consume UMTS or HSDPA indeed much more power than EDGE. Fervent “popularization” of push (instant receipt emails), the Canadian firm has so far preferred to EDGE. Recall that it was a lesser evil because the Blackberry data are compressed and cut specifically for their small screen.
BlackBerry Pearl 9105: 3G and autonomous
On the BlackBerry Pearl 9105, there is definitely a speed increase in web browsing, and especially in receiving attachments. The Blackberry Pearl 9105 returns in the strings other smartphones in terms of autonomy. Activated with the push day and night, the mobile is not just four days and confirms the credo of the Canadian manufacturer.
The firm black berry has also integrated GPS unavoidable (for use with BlackBerry Maps) any self-respecting smartphone. Apart from 3G and GPS, the new does not burst in his eyes, always sparingly Rim integrates new features. The camera sensor is increased by a large megapixel to 3.2 megapixels, but the benefit is not obvious.
If the software platform tilts Blackberry OS 5, not visible in Blackberry World GUI of our test model. It will have to download from the site [http://fr.blackberry.com/services/appworld/download.jsp], to discover and download OTA (on the air, without a PC) of new applications.
BlackBerry Pearl 3G mini screen
Despite its good resolution of 360×400 pixels, the small screen of 2.3 inches of the Blackberry Pearl 9105 does not comfort similar to Bold / Curve and other popular smartphones for emails, surfing or multimedia applications (dedicated buttons at the top of the unit). Reading or music videos will also require a microSD card since the internal memory available is less than 256 MB (127 MB).
Finally, for its compactness that Blackberry offers greater autonomy to receive push emails and some multimedia features. Fanatics Posts epistolary prefer digital version Pearl 9100, equipped with an alphanumeric keyboard.
More : navigation broadband (UMTS, HSDPA and WiFi), high autonomy, management push.
Less : average photo sensor, keyboard useful in version 9100 (alphanumeric).
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