Phones

Blackberry was sure to be featured in our smartphone roundup. They continue to produce quality, sought after phones, including their latest, the Blackberry Pearl. The Pearl has received quite a few raves since its release a few months ago. This latest model, the 8100, brings a slimmer, lighter body, a memory card slot, voice dialing and a media player. Also included along with the batteries, are Bluetooth 2.0, EDGE high-speed data, and yeah, the most addicitive part – BlackBerry push email. This has more of a cell-phone form factor than typical Blackberry’s and doesn’t have the usual click-wheel, but instead a full QWERTY keyboard with the SureType predictive text, so you typically don’t have to type in all of the letters to common words. The 65,000 color screen is nice and large at 240 x 260, to run your browser, IM, e-mail and organizer apps. One nice feature, like the Treos, that you’ll be glad it has is phone integration with the apps, so you can click on phone numbers to dial.

Blackberry actually thought enough of this new model to give it its very own website. If you have a minute and a decent Net connection, check it out – it has a slick Flash-based presentation.

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The venerable Palm Treo, which is arguably the first smartphones around, is still one of the most popular, and now that Palm has released the 700 series, they continue to try to maintain that popularity. The 700 is the first Treo model to come in both a palmOS version (700p) as well as a Windows Mobile version (700w/700wx). We’ve opted to feature the 700p in honor of its palmOS roots. The 700p now has 128MB of built-in memory, its famous QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3 Megapixel camera along with a 320x320pixel, 65k color touch screen, and EV-DO 3G data connectivity. One of the biggest benefits to choosing the palmOS version is for the thousands of applications, many freely available, that you can get for this platform. No WiFi, but EV-DO should keep you humming along at near-DSL speeds.

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The Blackberry Pearl is the new hot cell phone on the block. We’ve already received quite a few raves about this slick little crack… uhh… Blackberry. 😉 This latest model, the 8100, brings a slimmer, lighter body, a memory card slot, voice dialing and a media player. Also included along with the batteries, are Bluetooth 2.0, EDGE high-speed data, and yeah, the most addicitive part – BlackBerry push email. This has more of a cell-phone form factor than typical Blackberry’s and doesn’t have the usual click-wheel, but instead a full QWERTY keyboard with the SureType predictive text, so you typically don’t have to type in all of the letters to common words. The 65,000 color screen is nice and large at 240 x 260, to run your browser, IM, e-mail and organizer apps. One nice feature, like the Treos, that you’ll be glad it has is phone integration with the apps, so you can click on phone numbers to dial.

Blackberry actually thought enough of this new model to give it its very own website. If you have a minute and a decent Net connection, check it out – it has a slick Flash-based presentation.

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Back when the Treo 700 was first announced I was a bit worried that Palm might actually kill off the PalmOS in favor of Windows Mobile. Luckily, my fears were unwarranted, as they’ve launched a PalmOS version, the Treo 700p. Hopefully, they’ll ship the latest version of PalmOS soon that will take advantage of the 320×320 pixel, 65k color touch screen. The 700p has over twice the available built-in storage as the Treo 650, and has EV-DO data support. Great for road warriors. Other notable features: a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, Wireless Sync, a Digital Music Player and built-in Bluetooth® 1.2 wireless technology.
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