January
Well after getting a nice little pearl on eBay, I wanted to see what it would be like to live with a pearl for 24 hours instead of my blackberry tour. Now, this review is kind of opinionated, but bear with it. I will go over the Design, Features, Phone Speed, and in the end, my final thoughts and ratings of each device. Lets begin:
Pictures
The back of each phone.
A front shot, side by side.
The left side of each device.
…And the right side.
The phone’s top media/function keys compared.
Design
The Pearl: B The blackberry pearl, all in all, ahs a nice design and feel, but there are a few minor flaws with the device, or at least mine. One big thing is the trackball. Its nice and all, but to easily it can get dirty, and then to fix it, you need to take the trackball out, clean it up, and put it back in. Not the biggest of deal, as you only really have to do this like probably two times a year, but it is still annoying when you try to scroll through the applications, and it only seems to respond when it feels like it. Besides that, the phone its self feels strongly build, and also looks nice. I give the pearl a B.
The Tour: A- The Tour, besides the first few devices sold having bad trackballs, overall has a great design, except I personally feel that the lack of the openGL and a official release of a 5.0 OS for this device really makes it lack. Besides that, the phone has a nice rubber feel, and it feels nice in your hand. The 3.2 MP camera is amazing, and the screen on the tour has a very nice, clean, crisp image. Overall, I give it a A-.
Features
The Pearl: B- The phone has a nice OS, a lot of security options, a lot of apps, and email push like every blackberry, but the camera quality is not the best, and is comparable to a .5 MP camera. I must say tho, the phones flash counts as a flashlight if you ever need, so for that all said, overall, this device gets a B-.
The Tour: B A full QWERTY keyboard, and 3.2 MP camera are the two main things that stand out about this phone. From that, to it being a global phone, this phone is really full of goodies! One downside tho is the media player it comes with has problems playing long movies, making it hard to resume a movie, and that kind of sucks as I wanted this to replace my ipod touch as well, but I guess it fails there. All in all, id give it a B.
Phone Speed
The Pearl: C Well maybe its just me, but this phone seems to really lag in the web browser, and sometimes just general use. Even trying to send a text, it freezes for about 5 seconds before it sends. I have only had the device crash once during a app install, but this lag does get ignoring. For all that, it gets a C.
The Tour: B+ Only real lag on this device is when you use the web browser, or install a app, but besides that, I have not had any problem with lag. It gets a B+ as the semi-slow web page loading can get old after a bit. but if you don’t need stuff right away, then its not a big deal.
Final Thoughts
Well the pearl may be a nice entry device, or for just casual surfers and texters, but it does not really seem to keep up with the speed of my life. I use the web browser alot, and the pearl was just too slow for me, so in the end, the winner would have to be the Blackberry Tour.
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May 22, 2010 at 8:07 pm