Now that I have had the time to fully check out verizons pearl 2,It is time for my mini review. T he first few thing you notice about the pearl 2 that is differnt from t-mo's pearl is the door for the micro sd on the side,the keyboard(its raised on the numbers and lower on the letters)The keyboard takes a little getting used to as t-mo's pearl had flat keys. Your fingers tend to slip off of them. The trackball is sunk in a little more which makes its use a hole lot better! There is now a 3.5mm headphone jack! so if you have a great pair of headphones,you can use them with it!(also included is a nice pair of head phones with built in mic)
UI-- You all will be happy to know that the verizon theme that is on the paerl 2 is pretty nice looking. I noticed that verizon didnt limit too much on here like they do with other phones! Gps is locked to bb maps and vz nav other then that its verizon tamper free!
BROWSER-- Rim has done a very good job of reconstructing the browser 4.3 includes a zoom feature thats outstanding and i dint have a hard time pulling up random sites.(note- sites with heavy flash didnt work very well but it did load up all other content).The speed of the browser with evdo is just insane!
sites load up very fast and clean,mms are sent in about 20 sec's and text is gone befor you hit send! I was also happy to be able to download opera mini 3&4 and the speed of those browsers on verizons evdo is mindblowing!
MEDIA & MEMORY-- First of all the pearl 2 supports up to 8gig micro sd cards! I have a 4gig micro in mine and the phone did not struggle or bog down at all while reading writing or searching! The pearl 2 also has a 2mp camera with video recording but video will onle work if you have a memory card in the phone! pix from the camera were very nice looking crisp and colors looked pretty good. While taking photos the auto backlight feature makes pix look a little dim but the turn out good. The flash on the other hand is dam bright for a phone! They really turned up the juice on the flash!(below is a pic i took of myself lol)The music player is pretty bare bones but you can create play list,shuffle and repeat you know. There is some new beta software out called flipside that is a great music player for the pearl! it looks and feels just like the iphone the way your music art covers filp back and forth its awesome!
EMAIL,TEXT,MMS-- Well with the new 4.3 they changed the layout of text and you can now send and recieve ringtones through mms with no problems. As you all know email is Rim's pride and joy and it is very very good as always, and stupid fast on Evdo!
VOICE,SPEAKERS AND BATTERY LIFE
Rim included some new noise cancle software and you also have bass and treble ajustments for voice but not for music? strange. The earpeice is great clear and static free! no crackle either! The pearl 2 comes with 2 ext speakers instead of the single that was on the first pearl. so ringers and music are loud and clear but too much bass makes them crackle a little so take it easy on bass music.On the other hand music through headphones is loud! with very good sound qualty. I just wish it had some ajustment to your music. As for battery life I did the first 12 hour charge thursday morning @ 10am and im charging for the second time @ 11:27 on Sat with email,text,web,opera,music,youtube,pix and video FINAL THOUGHT
Im very very impressed. Comming from t-mo the pearl was my fav phone but there data speed was stupid slow. I love this phone!The size is great,music sounds good and typing is speedy once you get past the new keyboard. I give it a 9 out of 10! you cant bet it for $149.00 on a 2 year. I got mine for $229.00 I bought it outright and got a discount from work. well thanks for checking out my mini review.
I got my Pearl 2 today!!!!!
I got my Pearl 2 today!!!!!
ring tone help!
Linear Mode
