Introduction 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9105
After dropping the reviews Torch a while back, this time we will discuss thoroughly the BlackBerry Pearl 3G latest 9105. BlackBerry Pearl 9105 issued to become the successor to the BlackBerry 8100. BlackBerry Pearl 3G suitable for those of you who are looking for compact size mobile phone with a BlackBerry capabilities but is more accustomed to using T9 keyboard. Below is the official specification of the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105.
Official specs 3G BlackBerry Pearl 9105:
Quad-Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
-UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz
3.15 MP-resolution camera equipped with autofocus and LED flash light
-BlackBerry OS version 5.0
-2.2 inch TFT display, 256K colors 360 x 400 pixel resolution
-Optical Trackpad
-Processor 624 MHz
Connectivity-Bluetooth version 2.1/Wi-Fi/GPS
-SMS/MMS/Email/Push Email / BlackBerry Messenger
-Slot microSD external hot-swap (can be expanded up to 32GB)
-SureType technology
-Jack 3.5mm standard audio
-Media keys
-Office applications to create new documents and edit documents
Pros:
-Trackpad that feels responsive
-The size is compact and lightweight, fitting dikantong
-The screen is quite comfortable
-Music function keys make it easy to access music on the music player diminimize
-Camera with good results and is equipped with a flash
Weaknesses:
-The sale price is expensive in Indonesia (Rp.4.500.000) is equivalent to BB Onyx
Small-sized screen (2.2 inches)
Performance-Browser is still slow
3G BlackBerry Pearl 9105 is currently priced Rp.4.500.000 in Indonesia, the price is equivalent to the price of the BlackBerry Bold. It's a tough choice choosing between the two. Open the next page to find out more details which BlackBerry will be your choice.
BlackBerry Pearl 3G Sales Box 9105
Inside the box there is a sale of BlackBerry 9105 accessories such as chargers, data cable microUSB, 3.5mm standard headset, batery, CD software, user's manual, warranty card and mobile phone. There is a bonus of 2 GB microSD sales of the BlackBerry 9105 in the box.
Hardware
Design The BlackBerry 9105 looks like the design of a mini version of the BlackBerry Bold 9700, is due to an optical trackpad for navigation buttons on the BlackBerry 9105. RIM BlackBerry Pearl is the latest output using high quality plastic material that dikrome with gray, Krome design of the BlackBerry 9105 looks like Onyx.
At the top of the screen there is the earpiece, LED notification light, and the BlackBerry logo.
BlackBerry 9105 using a screen-type 2.2 inch TFT, 256K colors 360 x 400 pixel resolution-shaped portrait. BlackBerry 9105 screen remains easy to use as we use under the sun.
BlackBerry Pearl 9105 is equipped with 3G technology that optical trackpad feels sensitive when used for browsing the menu. Button makers use such as call buttons and the menu button located on the left side of the trackpad, while the use of such a back button and the button calls breaker that serves as the power button located on the right side of the trackpad.
If the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 using the QW-ER-TY is now the BlackBerry 9105 using the alphanumeric keypad are made of rubber such as non-QWERTY phones mostly. BlackBerry 9105 looks flat button with the phone body, but still feel soft and easy to type fast.
On the left side there is a microUSB port phone, voice dialing button and a 3.5mm standard audio jack hole.
At the bottom there are only a phone speaker phone.
On the right side there are volume keys and cell phone camera shutter button.
At the top of the phone there are media keys such as play / pause, next and previous.
On the back of the phone there is a 3:15-resolution camera equipped with autofocus and LED flash.
A complete list of Features and Specifications
Facebook
Upload photo: Yeah, Straight from the camera images, FB apps, and media gallery
Update status: Yes, direct from application
Koment: Yes, direct from application
Notification: Yes, Wall post, reply comments, new messages, friend requests, photo tag, event invitation. Appears on the homescreen and Universal Message Inbox
Twitter
Upload photo: Yes, directly from the camera or the media gallery / O, from wap
Update status: Yes, direct from application
Reply: Yes, direct from application
Retweet: Yes, direct from application
Camera
Resolution: 3.15 megapixel autofocus
State of dark light: Pretty good
Flash: LED, bright enough
Features: Autofocus (close-up, normal, off), white balance, image resolution and image quality, color effects, and image storage media (phone memory or microSD)
Video cameras
Resolution: VGA (640 x 480 pixels)
Dark state light: the light condition is quite good; the dark results in dim light
Features: Color Effects (Black and white, normal, and sepia) and flash lights that you can use during video recording lasts
Internet
Manual or automatic settings: Automatic
Support: 3G HSDPA
Streaming video: Yes (fee imposed on each operator)
Gps
Kompass Digital: No
Congenital Map: Blackberry Maps
Usage: To bookmark the location and directions on Blackberry Maps / Google Maps, geolocation on some social networking applications like Twitter, etc. Foursquare.
Browser
Support HTML or WAP: HTML / WAP
Flash Player: No
Performance: Slow
Support many windows: No, only 1 tab
Screen
Resolution: 2.2 inch TFT display with 256k color depth (360 x 400 pixels)
Under the Sun: Good
Automatic Brightness: Yes
Font size (user selectable)
OS
Type: BlackBerry OS version 5.0
Use: Pretty easy
Plan Upgrade OS: OS 6.0, the time is not yet known
Keyboard
Type: Alphanumeric / SureType
Key quality: Plastic
Button presses: Soft, no sound
Keyboard backlighting: Yes there is
Office Applications
Default application: There, opening applications, maker and editing Documents To Go Excel, Word, Powerpoint.
Media
Photo galery videos: There, model photo slideshow and displacement can use the Trackpad
Functions share: Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger, fuel, Email, MMS, Bluetooth and other third party apps.
Wi-Fi
Type: 802.11b / g
Support: Support for UMA (operator dependent)
Encryption: WPA / WPA2 Personal and Corporate
Shortcut on / off on Homescreen: None
Quality: Stable, automatically connect to a wifi network at a certain distance (wifi profile stored)
Network
Support 3G: UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz
Band: Quad Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Bluetooth
Version: Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP support
Sending a file / photo: Quite hard, pairing is required
Support: Headset Mono / Stereo, Handsfree, PBAP (Phone Book Access Profile), and Serial Port Profile
Messaging
Email support: Up to 10 emails (yahoo mail, aol, windows live, google mail and corporate mail)
Push email: pop3, imap
SMS type: Thread Messaging
Attachment Support: Yes, File document, image (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF), HTML, ZIP, ASCII and Voice Notes
Corporate Email Support: Yes (Microsoft ® Exchange, IBM ® Lotus ® Domino ®, Novell ® GroupWise ®)
Multitasking:
Applications: Facebook, Twitter, email, BBM, IM, browsers, and almost all the 3rd party applications
Battery
Endurance (Standby): 18 hari/432 hours (2G) / 13 hari/312 (3G)
Talk time: 5 hours 30 minutes (2G) / 5 hours (3G)
Battery type and capacity: Lithium-ion 1150 mAh
Streaming
Audio: Yes (cost depends masing2 operator)
Video: Yes (cost depends masing2 operator)
Application
Java support: Yes
Market app / Place Download: BlackBery App World
Notifications
SMS: Yes, sounds, Blink LED lights and message inbox
Email: Yes, sounds, Blink LED lights, and the Inbox Message
Chats: Yes, sounds, and LED lights Blink Message Inbox
Facebook: Yes, Blink LED lights, sound, Inbox Message
Twitter: Yes. Blink LED light, sound, Inbox Message
Ring tones
Format: MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC
Mp3 as ringtone: Yes, through the media profile and the file explorer
MP3 as SMS: Yes, through the media profile and the file explorer
Mp3 as an email: Yes, through the media, profiles, and file explorer
Profile
Profile settings or regular shortcut: Shortcut on the home screen
Type: General, Quiet, Loud, Phone Only, Off, Normal etc.
Startup
Startup time: 1 minute 30 seconds
Games
Default: BrickBreaker, Word Mole, Tropper Typing, Texas Hold'Em King 2, Sudoku, and Klondike
Download game format: Java
Place download: BlackBerry App World
Media Player:
Video File Support: MPEG4 Simple Profile and Simple advance, H.263, H.264, WMV3
Dukugnan Audio Files: MP3, AMR-NB, AAC-LC, AAC +, eAAC +, WMA, WMV, Flac, Ogg Vorbis
Background
Image formats: Jpeg, bmp, gif
Size: 360 x 400 pixels
Photo as wallpaper: Yes, through the media gallery
Navigation
Touchscreen: No
Optical Trackpad
Usage: easy
Synchronization Into Computer:
Media: Cable, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
Applications: BlackBerry software suite
Mode: As Mass Storage / Modem / Contact synchronization
Memory
Internal: 256MB
Support memory cards: MicroSD (hot-swap)
Up to: 32 GB
Phone Book:
Capacity: unlimited
Data: Home phone, Mobile, Fax, office and home address, email, Instant Messenger, Address
Synchronization: With Google sync, ms outlook, Facebook
Photo: Yes, from the Media Gallery and FB
Backup: SIM Card, Google Sync, via computer (Software BB), a feature on Blackberry Backup Fuel
Homescreen:
Number of maximal: a home screen
Displacement: -
Performance: Current
Widget Support: No
Hotkey Support: Yes
Other:
Jackaudio: There, 3.5mm
FM Radio: -
Accelerometer: No
Charging port: MicroUSB
Unlocked and lock: press the 2 button and call button and the star makers)
Hot swap: There are
Speaker: Sound quality
Airplane mode: Off Profile
Mobile Customization: Themes choice, font size, font type
Alarm: Yes
This feature was written based on our test results, of course, can not be said to be 100% complete. If there already have it, please share it in the comments below. Please correct if there is also a mistake.
Inter-Face Display OS 5.0
BlackBerry 9105 using BlackBerry OS version 5.0 as the BlackBerry Bold and Odin. On the home screen icons appeared five shortcuts that you can set to your liking. On the screen there is a timepiece home screen, profile, batery status, and status signals. The existence of shortcuts to simplify profile on the home screen replacement option profile when we need. There is a home screen viewing options that display "Zen" and "Today".
To browse the menu, optical trackpad is ready for use as a replacement for the trackball on the BlackBerry Pearl earlier. The use of the trackpad was very easy because the trackpad feels sensitive when we use. 20 menu icons can be displayed on a screen measuring 2.2 inches BlackBerry's 9105. To sort the menu to appear "neat" you can move the menu icon to a new folder or folders that already exist. You can also move the menu contained within the folder to the menu simply by pressing the BlackBerry logo on the menu icon.
Phonebook
BlackBerry 9105 comes with unlimited phonebook just like any other BlackBerry smart phones. There is a very complete phonebook details from personal ringtones, email address (2 pieces), no office phone (2 pcs), home phone number (2 pieces), phone number (2 pieces), pager, fax, office address, the BlackBerry Pin, home address, birthday, notes, and websites.
If you are a Google user, you can download Google Sync to transfer contacts to your BlackBerry 9105 without the need to bother moving the contacts one by one in the phonebook. This smart mobile phone can also perform synchronization on a contact found on Facebook.
Messaging Features
BlackBerry 9105 can send messages like SMS / MMS / Email / Push Email / IM. For information only, the BlackBerry 9105 using the alphanumeric keypad, maybe for some people who are used to using a QWERTY BlackBerry will not used if using the alphanumeric keypad, the BlackBerry 9105. BlackBerry 9105 Keypad is more convenient to use type using one hand only, it will be slightly longer than the type using two hands, but still feels easy typing. SMS comes with a display IM (chat) which makes it looks more attractive. To send an MMS, you can include multimedia content such as image files, video and sound footage. If there are Facebook and Twitter notifications will go to the inbox messages.
To setup your email simply enter your email address and your email password, an email will do the settings automatically and the new email will go straight into your inbox (push email), provided you use the BlackBerry service Service. You can use multiple email accounts on the BlackBerry 9105 features e-mail.
For IM, the BlackBerry 9105 only provided with the BlackBerry Messenger. To use other IM such as YM, MSN, and Gtalk you can download on the BlackBerry App World.
For teksting capabilities, the BlackBerry 9105 is equipped with SureType feature that speeds up your typing. It can predict the text you are going to write that which will make typing will go faster.
Media
This is the entertainment features on the BlackBerry 9105, within the media there is a music player, video player, photo gallery, as well as some other features like voice recorder and video recorder. The music player can play songs with voices that sound quality and sound hard, some EQ options ready to be counted on to make the sound more melodious songs. When you input the song into the phone, using either the microSD or use the RIM software music player will automatically separate the songs by singer, album, and the type of songs. You can also create your own playlist of songs on the music player. When the song is played, the album art will be featured on the music player. The media keys located on the top of the phone such as play / pause, next and previous you can use to access the music player when the music player diminimize. Hole 3.5mm standard audio jack located on the left side of the phone is ready for your use if you feel less satisfied with the sound quality BlackBerry 9105. The music player can play MP3-formatted songs, WMA, WAV, and AAC +.
For business video, the BlackBerry 9105 can play video format MP4, H.264, H.263, and WMV at trial takes place. When dimakinkan video screen will automatically change to landscape mode. Some videos movie trailers and video clips we played on the BlackBerry 9105 screen. Video looks sharp when played, unfortunately ukurang small mobile phone screen it feels for us when used to watch the video.
To view the photos you can use a photo gallery on the media. Photo gallery will display the folders containing your photo collection in the gallery. To see previous photographs or photographs then you can shift the trackpad to the left or right. To share the photos you can use Bluetooth, Email, MMS or Facebook. Photo gallery features a slide show to view images with a display like the video.
3:15 Megapixel Camera Resolution
BlackBerry 9105 comes with 3:15 megapixel resolution camera equipped with autofocus, LED flash and geotagging. To take pictures quickly you can use the shortcut access to a camera shutter button located on the right side of the phone. There are some settings like autofocus camera (close-up, normal, off), white baalnce, image resolution and image quality, color effects, and image storage media (phone memory or microSD). Below are the results of the BlackBerry 9105 which the camera images look clear and detailed. The results look natural color but it is also clearly visible object details in photos.
3G BlackBerry Pearl 9105 Review Gallery
Video Recorder
In addition the camera can be used to photograph the BlackBerry 9105 can also be used to do video recording with two choices of VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) and MMS mode (176 x 144 pixels). Video recorder is equipped with a color (black and white, normal, and sepia) and flash lights that you can use during video recording in progress. The results of the video will be saved in 3GP format. Below is the video recordings BlackBerry 9105 which we think quite poorly.
Connectivity
BlackBerry 9105 runs on the GSM / GPRS / EDGE Quad-Band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz. For local connectivity there is Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP support and Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n. To transfer data from phone to PC you can use the data cable microUSB already contained in the sales box or use a card reader.
Browser
For browsing on the BlackBerry 9105 there are connectivity such as GPRS / EDGE / UMTS or Wi-Fi. We use the Wi-Fi connectivity for browsing, based on units that we have, to open a web page kassa9.com version of HTML, the browser feels a bit heavy to open. Below is video proof, but at least the BlackBerry 9105's browser is faster about 3 seconds from the browser Onyx ours.
The browser comes with the mouse for ease of browsing web pages. The browser also comes with features such as saving a web page, send the URL, and save images from web pages.
Customization Mobile
There are some customization options on the BlackBerry 9105 selection of fonts (letter), the choice of font size, typeface, clarity phone backlight, buttons on either side of cell phones that can be used to access shortcuts (default button on the left side of the phone is voice dialing button and on the right side of the phone is the camera shutter button). In addition you can also customize the themes contained in the BlackBerry 9105, the default option there is only one theme on the BlackBerry 9105 is Precision Themes.
3G BlackBerry Pearl 9105 Review Gallery
Games
BlackBerry 9105 is equipped with 6 pieces of luggage such as the BrickBreaker game, Word Mole, Tropper Typing, Texas Hold'Em King 2, Sudoku, and Klondike.
Office Applications
To support your performance, there have been applications to create new office documents and edit your office documents. This you can use for office documents such as Power Point, Excel, and Word.
3G BlackBerry Pearl 9105 Review Gallery
Battery Durability
BlackBerry 9105 uses a lithium-ion 1150 mAh which can hold up to 18 hari/432 hours in standby on GSM networks and 13 hari/312 hours on UMTS network according to claim BlackBerry party. When used to make calls batery can last up to 5 hours and 30 minutes on 2G networks and 5 hours on 3G networks.
Final Word
Compact size, yet has all the advantages possessed by the BlackBerry. That's the words that can describe the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105.