BlackBerry 8120 to replace the BlackBerry Pearl?
Leave it up to our infamous tipsters because the updated BlackBerry Pearl everyone was talking about, could turn out to be the BlackBerry 8120. What would the BlackBerry 8120 have over the current BlackBerry Pearl? I thought you’d never ask! For starters it should be out the first week of September or around there, and have "atleast 3 or 4 new color choices". The color of the case is all well and good, but what can we expect to find inside? A 2 megapixel camera, GPS, and WiFi. Waiting for confirmation on a carrier, but if I was a betting man, I’d place a wager on T-Mobile launching this device in September.
UPDATE: It seems as if Rogers in Canada will be launching the updated BlackBerry Pearl in September, with a U.S. carrier getting a "one week jumpstart". In addition to that, the rumored colors are said to be "black, red, titanium, blue, and gold".
Haha, love touchscreen so much? Go work @ McDonalds!
I love my BB, its small enough to fit in my pocket and it has the tools I need to get the job done and looks great. Functionality and style baby!
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What about it’s size and weight? I hope it won’t have a GPS, as I already got it in SXG75, just looking for sweet and small smart phone with great display.
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Well, every device is smaller than the SXG75…
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i demand a PINK blackberry >_
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which carriers will it come to? did I miss that? specifically verizon?
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I NEED A PINK BLACKBERRY TOO!!!!! Gold wouldn’t be bad otherwise… but it NEEEEEEEEDSSS to come out for tmobile
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WiFi is great for those that don’t want to pay for a data plan. My nokia e61 has WiFi, and I use it to grab email at home/office/Panera/etc. and deal with it off-line, eliminating an AT&T $50/month data fee. If people want me bad enough, call. I’m not that insecure that I need real time email everyplace.
GPS would be something that I could use everyday, but placing the phone on the dash to get the satellite signal, and then trying to use the small size screen from 3 feet away is tough - a bluetooth GPS receiver is a better solution.
Camera? OK, so now I need another phone to take to work, where cameras are not allowed for security reasons. Having the ability to disable the camera is fine - just tell the security guard the camera does not work - he’ll let you into secure environments, don’t worry…
Have to keep my E61 or my 7290 and switch the SIM out of the Pearl to go to work.
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will it be coming to cingular
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I’m tired of the cell service providers selling their own phones. But it’s how the system works, and I guess I have to live with it. I think the pearl 8120 better be out by october, because that’s when we’re switching to cingular ::COUGH::VERIZONSUCKS::COUGH:: and i really want to get a pearl with all the new features. IT’s one fo the few phones that doesn’t make you look like a college student trying to feel grown up and executive like, but still has really good syncing with outlook. and an amazing texting keyboard. that’s really important as well!
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On a news and tech journal on TV they said, last week, that consumers are NOT interested in broadband speeds on cell phones. In other words, there is not a non-business market for such.
Moreover, there is huge pressure from broadband and DSL providers to NOT let cell phone manufacturers cavalierly venture into their “high speed” markets. This makes sense considering that with T-Mobile, for example, I have a $20 unlimited data plan. I already use that when using my Pearl as a Modem to my notebook [115k speed].
Can you imagine how fast people would disconnect their home DSL or broadband connections if they could use their cell phones for an unlimited broadband connection.
Just mentioning all this to explain why the phone manufacturers come out with features on a piecemeal basis. They have to satisfy not only the consumers, but more importantly, the competing carriers who also offer home-based high speed connections. No one carrier wants a cell phone on the market that is sold by competing carriers that will cut into their offerings.
Just something to think about.
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I know after reading about the Pearl’s complaints the right corrections better made on the 8120! If blackberry is listening, when I call customer care they were telling me that a lot customer’s were complaining about not have total website access. I know you hear me BLACKBERRY. Stop running the scams and make the corrections. Don’t get me wrong, the Pearl is a great phone, but whats up with not being compatible with all websites…..make that correction and the Pearl is unstoppable!!!!!
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BBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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Panera?
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Panera Bread Company = free WiFi access
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I have the Blackberry Pearl and I loved it until yesterday when all of the sudden only the speakerphone will work. I can use my Jabra wireless earpiece and the speakerphone but not the actual ear on the phone…there is no sound.
We had Cingular before T-Mobile and they SUCKED! I had people calling me 10X a DAY for someone else! I had hours of “call waiting” charged to me every month…for calls I KNOW I didn’t make. I had a $1300 bill one month and when I tried to explain that the calls weren’t mine they said “tough luck.” My assistant got her daughter a cingular and she could call out, but when you called her some lady in a town nearby answered. They apparently had the same #. The lady said that Cingular had already done this to her before.
Anyone have any clues on why my phone is broken or how to fix it?
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when can you buy the gold or any of the new colors for at&t (cingular)
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i wanna know how much for this one
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Maybe you pressed the button on the top of the Pearl. The one that shows an icon of a Speaker with a line through it?
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Sorry, my mistake. I thought that might have been connected somehow to your loss of internal audio, but I was wrong.
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any update on the release of the 8120?
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at&t released this device to it’s field trial teams on 10/1. Not certain about other colors, test units came in a dark gray.
3.5mm jack, BT (stereo I am told but couldn’t test it), wifi, PTT, microSD slot. I think release scheduled for late Nov.
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CPW group have released the Red and Titanium Versions in the UK, steady sales but nothing to write home about.
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FCC Spills Details on Wi-Fi-Equipped BlackBerry Pearl
posted Nov 19, 2007, 9:13 AM
updated Nov 19, 2007, 12:47 PM
Documents seen on the FCC site revealed information about the BlackBerry 8120. This is a quad-band GSM/EDGE version of the recently announced 8130, and has many of the same upgrades, including GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, external microSD slot, and updated mail software. It does not include 3G, but adds 802.11b/g Wi-Fi to the mix. The user manual also details a UMA client on the Pearl 8120, which could indicate that it is headed for T-Mobile and might be compatible with T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home service.
http://www1.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=2545
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AHHH oh my Goodness! so i just got the red blackberry peral but if i would have known they had it in these COLORS i so would have got thesea foam one ! grr how do i get this? and can i trade my red one in for the sea foam one?
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When the HELL is rogers going to carry the 8120?!?!
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