BlackBerry’s new Pearl

Opinion
Oct 12, 20061 min

Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert

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BlackBerry’s new Pearl

The BlackBerry Pearl is sleek, comes with a new navigation method and can synch with up to 10 different e-mail accounts. But don’t mistake it for a pirate ship, Keith says.

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BlackBerry hits a home run with Pearl

The scoop: BlackBerry Pearl (model 8100), with T-Mobile service, by Research in Motion, about $200 (after rebates and two-year agreement). What it is: The latest wireless e-mail device from RIM, the BlackBerry Pearl is compact, shiny and full of features you didn’t expect. The latest wireless e-mail device from RIM, the BlackBerry Pearl is compact, shiny and full of features you didn’t expect.

Keith Shaw is an award-winning editor at Network World. In addition to creating the Cool Tools universe of columns, blogs and videocasts, he also edits the weekly DEMOletter newsletter http://www.demo.com/demoletter and is the senior editor of product testing at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/. You can reach Keith at mailto:kshaw@nww.com