BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Wi-Fi gets upgraded
We’ve just heard from one of our very solid connects about something pretty relating to the BlackBerry Pearl 9100. It will apparently have 802.11n support.
We’ve just heard from one of our very solid connects about something pretty relating to the BlackBerry Pearl 9100. It will apparently have 802.11n support.
RIM seems to be doing their best to make this a compelling device. It’s good to see the Pearl getting some love.
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nonsense. the device is selling very well. do you have sources to back this, or do you just pull this stuff out of michelle’s big ass?
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I’m surprised at how slow cell manufacturers have been to adopt Draft .N WiFi. Hopefully we’ll see more of it.
The processor in the device is what’s limiting the speed of web surfing on BlackBerry devices, not the speed of your WiFi.
I was thinking more about range than speed.
Wi-fi and 3G should be standard on any BlackBerry released after the 9700. Shouldn’t be big news at all!
Hard to believe anyone bought/still buys the Tour. So many airliners now have wifi, where that device is useless. I think RIM has a tough toad ahead and will continue to lose BB afficionados.
They still sell those
Release date? Carrier?
@Stefan, yes the processor makes a difference, but Opera loads pages way faster than the BB browser. It has server side compression, which speeds things up a lot. The thing that really slows page loading in the BB browser is JavaScript rendering. Though constantly deleting the cookies and cache, speeds the browser up considerably. Once Now RIM owned Torch, throws their WebKit browser into the BB OS, that’s when real change will be seen.
I’m done with BlackBerry. Browser is poop, archaic OS, apps are subpar and waaaay more expensive than their iPhone counterparts. Also, I don’t work for a company with a BES server, and most phones now offer push email. Still a good platform for a lot of people. For my usage (mainly web, music, gaming, apps, dock connector, accessories and being an Apple computer owner for over 20 years) the iPhone is MY choice.
Adding N would be cool! But why doesn’t the 9700 have it? I thought that was the top of the RIMM line! I’d like to see Nokia add N and UMA to the E72 … that would be awesome!
Tour sales have been tanking and the 9700, while doing ok on Tmo, is slow on ATT. If you want to find the device specific stats, read the Edgar profiles for RIMM. I don’t store anything in Michelle’s heiney, but since you brought it up, how many devices you think you could get in there? Lots o Pearls, fewer Bolds.
I don’t see the use of N to the device it wouldn’t really wouldn’t benefit anything on it.
N is just a gimick the only real benefit is distance. Wireless G is upto 53mps which is way faster than most ISPs.
Is this the new touchscreen Pearl?
Touch screen pearl…lol