The
BlackBerry Pale Gold Pearl sports a large
240 x 260 screen that supports more than 65,000
colors--plenty of real estate to view your
e-mails, Web browser content, messaging
sessions, and attachments. The venerable BlackBerry trackwheel, meanwhile, has been
replaced on this model with an innovative
four-way trackball placed below the screen. On
the rear of the handheld, you'll find a
1.3-megapixel camera that lets you take
high-quality pictures wherever you roam. Other
design details include a microSD memory card
slot inside the device (behind the battery), a
standard 2.5mm headset jack (the Pale Gold Pearl
includes a headset), and a mini-USB port for
data connectivity.
Calling Features
All the calling capabilities folks have come to
expect in a wireless phone are present in the
BlackBerry Pale Gold Pearl. The handset's
speakerphone makes it easy to use the device
hands-free, or if you prefer, you can use a
wireless headset via the Pale Gold Pearl's
built-in Bluetooth capability. The phone also
offers a vibrating alert, a speed dial, and a
contacts list/address book that's limited only
by the unit's 64 MB of internal memory. Pale
Gold Pearl owners who want to create
caller-specific ringers can choose from the
phone's 32 polyphonic ringtones, making it easy
to know who's calling without looking at the
handset, or they can visit T-Mobile's t-zones
mobile Web service to access even more ringtones.
And thanks to the phone's speaker-independent
voice dialing function, you can call contacts
with the sound of your voice. No prior voice
training is required; simply say a contact's
name and the phone will dial the number.
The Pale Gold Pearl also offers a number of
T-Mobile-specific features when combined with
the right service plan, including myFaves
support, which delivers unlimited any-network
calling to your choice of five people, and
quad-band worldwide support (850, 900, 1800, and
1900 MHz), which helps the phone function in
every country where T-Mobile offers GPRS
service.
Messaging, Internet, and Tools
While the BlackBerry Pale Gold Pearl is a
different kind of BlackBerry device, it still
delivers the legendary BlackBerry e-mail
experience. With BlackBerry service plans from
T-Mobile, you can receive e-mails
instantaneously from up to 10 e-mail accounts
(personal and enterprise). BlackBerry's push
technology, meanwhile, makes it easier than ever
to receive your e-mails. BlackBerry devices are
designed to remain on and stay continuously
connected to your wireless network. As a result,
you don't have to retrieve your e-mails
manually, but instead are discreetly notified by
the Pale Gold Pearl each time a new e-mail
arrives. The unit also offers built-in support
for viewing e-mail attachments in Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and PDF formats.
If your company has a BlackBerry Enterprise
Server installed, you can take advantage of the
power of wireless calendar synchronization with
the Pale Gold Pearl. Your calendar events are
exchanged wirelessly and automatically so that
your desktop calendar and BlackBerry handheld
calendar are synchronized. In addition, your
Outlook meeting requests, changes, and updates
are designed to synchronize instantaneously with
your desktop, making it a breeze to make meeting
requests, invite new attendees, and more. And
users without BlackBerry Enterprise Server
aren't out of luck, as you can manually sync the
Pale Gold Pearl with your desktop calendar and
contacts via Bluetooth or USB using the included
BlackBerry Desktop Software.
As with most smartphones, the
Pale Gold Pearl
lets you access the Internet from the palm of
your hand, with an integrated Web browser,
up-do-date stock quotes, news readers, weather
reports, and more--all at fast speeds thanks to
support for T-Mobile's EDGE high-speed data
network. Instant and wireless messaging are also
built into the Pale Gold Pearl, with support for
AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ instant messaging as well as SMS text messaging. Plus, users can receive and
forward MMS messages.
