Blackberry Pearl 8100 Review
Ok, this isn't a real/full review, per se.
I haven't got a chance to play with one yet. But here are my first impressions of the Blackberry Pearl 8100.
Yes, you can finally do all those other media things on a Blackberry. You can now take pictures, listen to mp3s, etc.
But months ago people were saying/hoping this would also take on the iPod in terms of media storage. I think there is a HUGE opportunity that all phone manufacturers are missing out on:
Who will be the first to offer a hard-drive phone?
The first person to market with this concept will clean-up big time. So, RIM really missed out here by being another Johnny-Come-Lately..."Me-Too" phone for which you have to buy an expandable memory card...INSTEAD of a first-to-market iPod-like-phone.
Everyone has heard of podcasts...but have you ever heard of nokiacasts, samsungcasts, LGcasts, motocasts? No, you haven't; because it wouldn't make sense to have those kinds of things with a phone that couldn't handle them. I went out and registered http://www.berrycasts.com (go check it out; it's an aggregator site now) thinking I'd be ready early for the flood of people jumping on the next tech bandwagon. But, alas, no.
The Blackberry Pearl 8100 is nice to look at, and it will sell. But it could have been so much more. Let us hope it has a bigger brother coming.
I haven't got a chance to play with one yet. But here are my first impressions of the Blackberry Pearl 8100.
Yes, you can finally do all those other media things on a Blackberry. You can now take pictures, listen to mp3s, etc.
But months ago people were saying/hoping this would also take on the iPod in terms of media storage. I think there is a HUGE opportunity that all phone manufacturers are missing out on:
Who will be the first to offer a hard-drive phone?
The first person to market with this concept will clean-up big time. So, RIM really missed out here by being another Johnny-Come-Lately..."Me-Too" phone for which you have to buy an expandable memory card...INSTEAD of a first-to-market iPod-like-phone.
Everyone has heard of podcasts...but have you ever heard of nokiacasts, samsungcasts, LGcasts, motocasts? No, you haven't; because it wouldn't make sense to have those kinds of things with a phone that couldn't handle them. I went out and registered http://www.berrycasts.com (go check it out; it's an aggregator site now) thinking I'd be ready early for the flood of people jumping on the next tech bandwagon. But, alas, no.
The Blackberry Pearl 8100 is nice to look at, and it will sell. But it could have been so much more. Let us hope it has a bigger brother coming.
posted by Shawn at 5:59 AM
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