BlackBerry 8100

 
Over the passed day or so, I’ve been taking a look at various smartphones that target individual consumers across various networks and one thing that I noticed was that T-Mobile’s original BlackBerry Pearl 8100 is much less expensive than everything else out there.

The device itself, with a two year service plan, costs under a $150 bucks after a mail-in rebate which is on par with the lowest of the low on devices that can be considered smart phones. Then there is the $9.99 unlimited data plan. Well, that is just unheard of.

T-Mobile’s BlackBerry Pearl is not only a very inexpensive option for a smartphone, but, is an attractive option as a feature phone as well.

I think that the the “Old School BlackBerry Pearl” will do very well this holiday season.

 
We’ve known that T-Mobile was going to release the BlackBerry Pearl Pearl in three new colors for about a month now. Today those new colors, blue, gold, and red, are now avaiable.

Read the press release…

Keith from Kradest.com dropped us an email letting us know that he has released several free BlackBerry 8100 themes.

This didn’t seem like something that we should keep to ourselves so we’ve provided links where you can download the free BlackBerry 8100 themes here, here, here, and here and you can see what that rest of them look like after the jump.

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Vincent Verweij from Makayama Interactive sent me, along with others, an email letting us know that Media Studio for BlackBerry 1.0 was launched today.

The easiest software to transfer DVDs directly to your Blackberry. Convert and watch movies, YouTube video, home videos and much more on the Blackberry Pearl (8100) and other upcoming video-enabled Blackberries.

Media Studio appears to have pretty good compression. You can store up to 8 feature films on a single 1GB memorycard.

Media Studio for BlackBerry 1.0 will set you back $34.95 or 29.95 (EUR) and you can test it out before you buy it. Verizon won’t have the BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 until sometime around 2024 so I won’t be able to give you a full review. If one of you BlackBerry Pearl toting CrackBerry Addicts give it the once over, leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

We showed you the thumbnail of the Cingular BlackBerry Pearl the other day, but thanks to BBHub, we can show you an actual live picture of the Cingular BlackBerry Pearl. A blurry picture, but, a picture none the less.

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Cingular BlackBerry Pearl