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OK, advice please. I've decided it's time to get a cell phone that really works (my current provider has a lousy network - I have problems getting service just about anywhere indoors). I also want e-mail access. I'm looking at Verizon because they have the best coverage in my area. I checked with them and they recommended a plan, which I'm mostly OK with, and a BlackBerry Pearl.
Comments? suggestions? I'm a little iffy about the device because the keys seem kind of small.
My mother loves her Blackberry Pearl, if that's any help.
I have Verizon and it was worked really well. I just have one of the basic free phones though.
Thanks!
If you particularily like flip phones, my best friend (who lives but mere blocks from you) really really likes her blackberry flip phone (which is very similar to the pearl, but...is a flip phone). Though she's got T-mobile, and some sort of freakish plan where everytime she's at a wifi spot (aka, every time she's at HOME), all her calls are free, or some madness like that.
The Pearl doesn't have a full qwerty keyboard, so typing quickly will be a bit more of a learning curve. Other than that I've heard good things.
Blackberry Pearls are pretty nice for basic phone/internet stuff, and blackberry e-mail is good. If you're forced by Verizon to pay extra for a Blackberry plan, though, it may be overkill.
I have very dextrous fingers and love the tiny keyboard on my Centro so can't really speak to key size - think that's a personal feel call- but I will say that the weird 2-letters-per-button fake-QWERTYness of the pearl has always thrown me. Maybe I've never used one long enough to get used to it, but even so. Looking at the Verizon site, I personally would go up a step to either the Centro (my current phone which I adore) or one of the phones with a slide/fold-out keyboard, like the Alias or the Glyde. You'll have to pay $50 with plan and the online discount for the Alias, but the keyboard will be more functional.
Todd, Verizon is supposed to get the iPhone soon, so if you're interested in that, you may want to hold off.
Did there turn out to be anything to that rumor? Last I'd heard, it was a new flurry of reposting what turned out to be a 6-month-old anon-sourced blog post.
Vortex, what's your source on that? Google is only giving me rumor blogs.
[HA to the totally unsurprising xpost]