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Blackberry Pearl 8100 Gold Unlocked GSM Cell Phone - Quad-Band, EDGE, MicroSD Slot, Camera, QWERTY Keyboard, Media Player Now Only $259.99 (US)
Blackberry Pearl 8100 White Unlocked GSM Cell Phone - Quad-Band, EDGE, MicroSD Slot, Camera, QWERTY Keyboard, Media Player Now Only $259.99 (US)

Blackberry Pearl 8100 Unlocked GSM Cell Phone
The BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphone is one of the world’s smallest smartphones and packs all of the power of BlackBerry. It comes complete with digital camera, multimedia capabilities and expandable memory. And it offers customers everything else they’d expect from a BlackBerry smartphone — including phone, email, web browser, text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer applications and more.

The BlackBerry Pearl provides Quad-Band network support on 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM™/GPRS and EDGE* networks to allow for international roaming between North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

The BlackBerry Pearl is small enough to take anywhere. It’s the ultimate combination of brains and beauty. Small. Smart and Stylish. So you can live large.

Specifications

Cellular Technology:  GSM, EDGE     Bluetooth Enabled:  Yes     Internet Browser:  Yes     Band / Mode:  GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900     Short Messaging Service (SMS):  Yes     Total Memory:  64MB     Expansion Type:  microSD     Locked:  No     Special Features:  Camera     Email     Speaker Phone     Instant Messaging     Calendar     Contacts     Tasks     Notes, Media Player     Push-to-Talk Support:  Yes     Body Color:  Gold     Display:  Color     Dimensions:  4.2" x 1.97" x .57"

Features

• Phone
• Email
• Text messaging (Short Messaging Service and Multimedia Messaging Service)
• Instant Messaging
• Web browser
• Camera
• Media Player. Audio and video playback in a variety of formats
• Push-to-talk
• Integrated address book, calendar, memo pad, task list.
• BlackBerry® Maps, the best way to find your way.
• Speakerphone and voice activated dialing
• SureType® keyboard technology in a QWERTY-style layout.
• Bluetooth® capability for hands-free dialogue via headsets and car kits
• Integrated attachment viewing
• Compatibility with popular Personal Information Management (PIM) software
• High resolution, light sensing screen that adjusts lighting levels automatically for ideal indoor and outdoor viewing.
• Dedicated Send, End and Mute keys, a pearl-like trackball navigation system, plus user definable convenience keys
• 64 MB of memory and expandable memory via microSD card.

What Is GSM?
Today’s Wireless Revolution is being achieved through the GSM family of wireless technology platforms - today’s GSM, GPRS, EDGE & 3GSM.  It is the basis of a powerful family of platforms for the future - providing a direct link into next generation solutions including GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) EDGE (Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution) and 3GSM.  GSM’s unrivalled success can be attributed to many factors, including the unparalleled co-operation and support between all those supplying, running and exploiting the platform. It is based upon a true end-to-end solution, from infrastructure and services to handsets and billing systems.  GSM is a standard that embraces all areas of technology, resulting in global, seamless wireless services for all its customers. It’s all part of the Wireless Evolution.

GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is the technology that underpins most of the world’s mobile phone networks. The GSM platform is a hugely successful wireless technology and an unprecedented story of global achievement and cooperation. GSM has become the world’s fastest growing communications technology of all time and the leading global mobile standard, spanning 214 countries.  Today, GSM technology is in use by more than one in five of the world’s population - by June 2006 there were over 2 billion GSM subscribers, representing approximately 80% of the world’s cellular market. The growth of GSM continues unabated with almost 400 million new customers in the last 12 months.  The progress hasn’t stopped there. Today’s GSM platform is living, growing and evolving and already offers an expanded and feature-rich ‘family’ of voice and multimedia services.

What Is An Unlocked Cell Phone?
Simply put, an unlocked cell phone is a GSM cell phone that is NOT locked by the manufacturer or network provider to be used in a specific country or or a specific carrier!  You are free to use the phone where you want, and with which ever carrier/network provider that is compatible with the Unlocked GSM Cell Phone.

A Locked Cell Phone is one that has a SIM lock.
A SIM lock, simlock, network lock or subsidy lock — not to be confused with PIN code — is a capability built-in to GSM phones by cellular phone manufacturers. Network providers use this capability to restrict the use of these phones to specific countries and network providers. Currently, phones can be locked to accept only SIM cards from one or more of the following:

• Countries (the phone will work in one country, but not another)
• Network/Service providers (e.g. AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile, Vodafone, etc.)
• SIM types (i.e. only specific SIM cards can be used with the phone).

You can purchase Unlocked mobile phones to work with any GSM provider, as long as it is compatible with your chosen network, but the phone may still display the original branding and may not support all of the features your new carrier (such as Friends & Families type features).

Also Note: That some Unlocked phones may have Network Carrier’s Logos imprinted on them.  Such as “AT&T” or “T-mobile”. This in no way inhibits you from being able to use them on any compatible network, or with any compatible SIM card, as these phones are unlocked.

REVIEW BY: lucy Reviewed  Jul 08, 2008 

love this color !!!! gold is really hard to find, and this is the best price I’ve seen. 

REVIEW BY:  Reviewed  Jun 29, 2008 

Highly recommend this phone. Finally blackberry made a good looking phone.

REVIEW BY:  Reviewed  Jun 28, 2008 

It is very good phone and easy to use. The most and advantageous feature of this phone is trackball with which we can operate it easily.Camera with 1.3mp which is good.For loading and playing music it is better to add a 1 gb micro sd card as cingular does not give with the phone. The map feature which is really good and can be operated like maps.google.com. Voice dialing also very good in this phone.

REVIEW BY: Eli Reviewed  Jun 27, 2008 

Was very happy to finally found a Blackberry Pearl that is unique in its color. I will probably never find another person walking around with this same color phone so I like it for that.