Blackberry Pearl 8130 officially announced with video recording
Waterloo-based and our best friends, Research In Motion, today announced the BlackBerry 8130 for CDMA carriers. This marks the first CDMA BlackBerry Pearl, delivered to market just over one year after the original launched on T-Mobile last Fall. The phone brings with it a host of upgrades, EV-DO high speed radio notwithstanding. The device sports a 3.5 mm headphone jack, built-in GPS (likely disabled on Verizon’s offering), the highly anticipated A2DP Bluetooth profile, and an overhauled interface complete with browser redesign and streaming video support. The media player gets playlist functionality, a feature requested by many a BlackBerry users across the globe. With the 2.0 megapixel camera that comes with video recording capabilities, it becomes the first BlackBerry for CDMA networks that offers digital photography and the first BlackBerry across the board that offers video capture and recording capabilities. All told, this is a suitable upgrade for handset that was getting a bit long in the tooth.
Won’t this CDMA baby look good in someone’s Christmas stocking !! (wink)
CB
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I love how people knock wifi in phones. Obviously they never used UMA, I’d love to see how many calls they can make in the basement or inside a highrise.
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does this mean i won’t be able to add ringtones to it if i get the vzw one unless i pay for the “get it now” ringtones? that’d suck donkey balls
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Are you sure on that?
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xman, are you sure the video capture is a software issue??
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what about AT&T??????? AHHHH i want it….
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Does anyone know when the CURVE will be available on CDMA?
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so will the pearl be on sale tomorrow or what????
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Spoke to my Telus Rep and he says the Pearl 8130 will be coming out sometime this week or next. It is to replace the 7130, which they are phasing out.
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The GPS functinality is not “open” on AT&T either. And there are no GPS applications available for the Blackberry except those available from Verizona and AT&T, so you might as well be “locked” into them.
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I am using GPS with the (edge-based) AT&T network and it works just fine. I am very happy with the functionality and response.
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Oh as long as you have a smartphone you can use any 3party app you like. I had used infosync on my 650 along with mNotes, intelsync and a dozen other apps. I don’t think VZW messes around with their smartphones the way the do the rest.
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love blackberry, to hell with the iphone crap, i am just waiting for the OS update as well so i can record video. hopefully soon
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is it ever going to come for t-mobile
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Will the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 be offered by Cellular One or Alltel??
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Will the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 be offered by Cellular One or Alltel in the Michigan Areas??
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will it come out in arkansas for alltel? how much?
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