| BlackBerry 8120 Pearl (AT&T) Review |
| By Dimitris S. |
Published
03/21/2008
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BlackBerry
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Unrated
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 "AT&T's new BlackBerry Pearl 8120 is a pleasing encore to the original and wildly popular Pearl 8100. The latest model adds a lot of cool upgrades, including a better camera, an improved Web browser, more conveniently placed memory card slot, and a jack that works with standard music headphones, making it an even better device for music and video. The 8120 adds Wi-Fi, too, but the software to make it useful isn't really here yet.
The Pearl rocked the smartphone scene when it first debuted by bringing stellar BlackBerry e-mail capabilities to a small, fashionable phone with a hybrid keyboard that appealed to the text-messaging-trained youth. And the 8120 doesn't mess with the original's winning formula. At 3.2 ounces and 4.2 by 2 by 0.6 inches (HWD), it's almost identical in size to the original Pearl. It features the same "hybrid" keyboard of somewhat slippery keys with just two letters on each. All Pearls use predictive text software, and the SureType algorithm for guessing words while you type seems to have been improved with this model. On the sides of the phone are camera, volume, and push-to-talk buttons. Smack under the bright, sharp 2.2-inch, 240-by-260-pixel screen is the signature "pearl" trackball." Read more here:
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