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User Submitted BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Smartphone Black (T-Mobile) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-07-22 One MAJOR problem Overall I love my Blackberry Pearl. It's easy to use, convenient, small and now I only have to carry one device. It does, however, have one MAJOR problem. Since I bought it 6 months ago, I have had to get it replaced twice, both for the same problem. The handset speaker stops working. In a call the person I'm talking to can hear me but I can't hear them. I take good care of my phone, have never dropped it, gotten it wet, etc. so there is no excuse for it to stop functioning like this, especially after so short a time. I'm definitely not going to get another one of these!! Date: 2007-07-14 Should not be on the market! My husband and I both got the Blackberry Pearl with a 2 year plan 3 months ago. We are both on our 3rd phone each. It is ridiculous!! The phone is meant to be a communication tool - well, I cannot hear anything the caller is saying on the headset, unless i use it in speaker mode or use it with the hands free headset. T-Mobile has charged us $9.99 for shipping each time to replace the phone - so we've spent $60.00 on just shipping charges to get a new one each time, only to have it replaced within a month. If you want a stable phone, buy anything but a Blackberry Pearl. Very disappointing. Date: 2007-07-12 Phone is ok - T-Mobile is not This phone was expensive, but appeared to offer a lot of features. It does, and in general the use of it is good. But changing settings is cryptic (especially compared with Motorola Razor). I prefer texting on the Razor. After a few months of normal use, it looks pretty worn out. My previous phone (Razor) looked good for much longer. Also after a few months, I tired of the email and web features and turned them off. Also, being a Mac user, this phone is limited in friendliness. Part of the reason I got this phone is the T-Mobile MyFaves feature. Since my wife was with T-Mobile and I pretty much talk only to her, I decided to switch to T-Mobile. The use of MyFaves was great at first (I like the animation) and easy, until T-Mobile started charging me for calls placed to my wife (my main Fav, of course). When I called T-Mobile about it, they claimed that I took her off of MyFavs. Coincidentally, the time of this change occurred when the phone had crashed on me, and I had to restart it. Now, T-Mobile is demanding that I pay for hundreds of dollars in calls. They have adamantly refused to believe that the phone has always displayed my wife as my main Fav. The "supervisor" I spoke with flatly refused to believe there could possibly be any technical problem. Naturally, I am just a lowly consumer without photographic or electronic records of the status of my phone, so I am sure I will lose in the end. In synthesis, be aware. This phone has some serious problems that can cost you. On that note, my wife also received an expensive new phone from T-Mobile by mail and was billed for it, although she did not order it. T-Mobile insisted she ordered it and demanded payment; when she demanded proof that she ordered the phone, T-Mobile recanted their story and refunded her money. This incident, in combination with mine, has raised serious doubts in my mind about the integrity and intentions of T-Mobile. Date: 2007-07-08 Not quite a real Blackberry, but gd enough. Scale 1-10 Size: 10! Compact! Style: 9! Black is always cool! Capacity: 9! Haven't tried too many things yet but emails and word files works just fine. Speed: 9! It's fast for the most part. It has probls DL pics pages. Function: 10! Blackberry maps feature saved me a few times, the home screen has all the functions most needed for easy access. Overall: Love it :) Keys are ultra small! Carefull not to ignore phone calls by pressing the wrong button (happened to me the first couple of times). It has pretty gd typing features and for the most part it gets what u're trying to type and you just select the word from their list. Date: 2007-07-06 not that bad -YOU CAN NOT MMS without purchasing the blackberry internet plan. -synchronization feature is good, calendars and contacts can be changed instantly in my pc's outlook program -if you're used to using a nokia(where things are a lot simplier and well ergonomical), its going to be a little harder at first to adjust especially with texting... -very versatile. its alright but could be a little confusing. too many labyrinthical options. -signal isnt very good. too many dead spots in LA under t-mobile with this phone. My old one, also under t-mobile had better reception. -loudspeaker not that good but ok. too much echo and too much bass like you speak through your nose -takes a while to decipher 1-800-GO-FEDEX -video viewing capability has no use to me. wished it could record videos. -its a very stylish phone! that's about it. next year i wont get a blackberry, ill go back to nokias and never on easily breaking motorolas -if you dont plan to get the internet plan, DO NOT BUY A BLACKBERRY. style isnt worth it.
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