Comments on: Pearly

By: Fred Ake

Fred Ake — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:19:28 +0000

Got a Perl on my Cingular plan a couple of weeks ago.
Quite happy with it.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:16:49 +0000

Well guys, yes its a beautiful phone with lots of bells and whistles but the bottom line with the Pearl and Mac is that Pocketmac DOES NOT FUNCTION with this sleeker model of the Blackberry line. And, if like me, you live in a country other than the US, Canada or the UK – you are out of luck for any real help. I’m in France and i can tell you that the people from Orange /France Telecom know NOTHING about the Pearl and even LESS about Mac. Its irritating because I know that this is an amazing smartphone but what’s the point if I can’t transfer my address book to it? Right now I am carrying around my Palm Zire 72 and my Pearl – one has all my phone numbers and email addresses and the other is my phone!!
If anyone has any great idea for how to solve the sync problem, I am all ears!!

By: christine

christine — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:39:06 +0000

i picked up the pearl yesterday after heading into the cingular store, thinking i was getting the blackjack. they told me i could try for 30 days and exchange ONCE if i wasnt happy with the blackberry. this is my first one and i LOVE it. forget the blackjack, push email and style kicks it in the butt.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:23:18 +0000

Good tip on the “Delete Prior” feature. I was just googling for this and your site came up.

By: Pozycjonowanie

Pozycjonowanie — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:25:40 +0000

I imagine T-Mobile is like Vodacom here in SA? (the least hassle :p). DO you have to sync your phone with your mail client to determine whats been read or are you using gmail?
Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:31:50 +0000

Hey Dan,
Have you found that the Pearl syncs well ( or at all) with iCal’s to-do list(s)?

By: k

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:27:01 +0000

Can you use a pearl for texting and internet usage without having a blackberry plan? i havea nokia e62 that i want to give up

By: David Storey

David Storey — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:56:17 +0000

Good to see you are enjoying your experiences with the mobile web. The Perl looks like a nice phone. I use a Sony Ericsson M600i, which has a similar input method, and it is great. It takes a few days to get used to, then typing URL’s and in text feels is fairly quick.
Have you tried Opera Mini on the Perl? It is Java, so doesn’t feel like a native Blackberry app, but it is a very nice browser (I guess I would say that). Now you’re using the web on your phone, is there any chance of throwing together a handheld stylesheet? You can use Opera in Small-Screen mode (View -> Small Screen) to test out your design. Without a handheld stylesheet, you can see how Opera automatically reformats the page using this view.

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:57:18 +0000

a world of advice, don’t touch the Motorola i850. The phone is junk. It likes to do this crazy, I’ll be scrolling thru my phone book and the phone reboots itself. It’s a brand new phone…actually brand new phone number two and both of them do it. something to do with the chipset being faulty….but on 2 phones? c’mon

By: xakep

xakep — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:12:07 +0000

Sounds like an awesome phone.