Airtel, RIM Intro the BlackBerry Pearl

Techtree News Staff, Nov 14, 2006 1608 hrs IST

Airtel, along with Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry, has launched the BlackBerry Pearl in India.

Airtel, along with Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry, has launched the BlackBerry Pearl in India.

The BlackBerry Pearl, which is claimed to be one of the smallest and lightest smart phones in the world, delivers the powerful BlackBerry experience together with an array of new features in an incredibly small and stylish design.

The BlackBerry Pearl features best-in-class technology and is incredibly easy-to-use. It has support for phone, email, text messaging, organizer, web browsing, and other mobile applications, as well as a digital camera, media player, and an expandable memory slot for the first time.

On this occasion, Sanjay Kapoor, Joint President of Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel, said, "The BlackBerry Pearl delivers exceptional mobile and data experience, and further endorses Airtel and RIM s ongoing commitment to the Indian market. With the BlackBerry Pearl, business meets lifestyle in a compact, sleek, and trendy handset, which defines the Airtel BlackBerry user."

Adding to it, Norm Lo, Vice President for Asia Pacific, RIM, said, "We are very pleased to work together with Airtel to bring one of the smallest and lightest smart phones in the world to mobile customers in India. The innovative BlackBerry Pearl brings the power of the end-to-end BlackBerry solution, and the convenience of a full-featured smart phone together in a small, sleek, and stylish design."

The BlackBerry Pearl has a 1.3-megapixel camera with built-in flash, 5x digital zoom, 64MB of flash memory, Speaker Independent Voice Recognition for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD), support for polyphonic, MP3, and MIDI ring tones, and intuitive call management features such as smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing, and call forwarding.

It is quad-band and EDGE-enabled, and supports expandable memory through a microSD card slot, giving users plenty more storage capacity for music, pictures, videos, and data files.

The other key features include a speakerphone, Bluetooth 2.0 for use with hands-free headsets, a media player, stereo headset jack, and RIM s popular SureType keyboard technology. It is also supported on BlackBerry Internet Service for individuals and smaller businesses, as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate use.

Meanwhile, the BlackBerry Pearl is priced at Rs 24,999 and is expected to be available from Airtel later this month.

USER COMMENTS

airtel is a good network,and he covers somany villages,it is vers useful of everybady but some distrabance and there is no any offers.

by neela muralikri, devarakonda, on Mar 25, 2008 05:00 PM, Report abuse Reply

by raj, delhi, on Mar 27, 2008 12:11 PM, Report abuse

my name is basavarar my mobiel no 9989999647 I want black barry conact

by basavaraj, hyderabad, on Mar 10, 2008 01:03 PM, Report abuse Reply

i wan brathi airtel SM Parthasrathi email id please

by RAJASEKARAN.B, CHENNAI, on Oct 04, 2007 01:09 PM, Report abuse Reply

i want to create an email account here

by zeronine, zero, on Sep 18, 2007 04:05 PM, Report abuse Reply

i want to know what is plans of Blackberry pearl plan.i want to change existing plan of Airtel internet plan.

by Dr A S VAJPAYEE, INDORE MP INDIA, on Aug 31, 2007 03:36 PM, Report abuse Reply

SANJAY

by SANJAY, MUMBAI, on Aug 18, 2007 04:31 PM, Report abuse Reply

I WANT TO CHANGE MY PALN

by B.VIONTHKUMAR, COIMBATORE, on Aug 08, 2007 10:18 AM, Report abuse Reply

I WANT TO CHANGE MY PALN

by VINOTHKUMAR, COIMBATORE, on Aug 08, 2007 10:15 AM, Report abuse Reply

plz any affer,

by premnath, cuddalore, on Aug 06, 2007 09:18 AM, Report abuse Reply

Can the Pearl receive a fax? I have a mobile fax facility on my 9300i and was planning to get the BB services...

by Aniruddh Borrka, Mumbai, on Jul 31, 2007 03:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

Is it a PDA? or is it a service? I am planning to buy a new instrument. Pls send me the full details. I am a practicing Chartered Accountant of 1979 Batch.

by CA Bakul V Gana, RAJKOT, on Mar 09, 2007 06:46 PM, Report abuse Reply

Can we configure our own POP emails with this like Gmail & MSN

by Sagar, Pune, on Dec 10, 2006 03:34 AM, Report abuse Reply

i hope it will reduse the price soon

by udaiam, dharmapuri, on Nov 17, 2006 11:51 AM, Report abuse Reply

At last the "Pretty Pearl" is here, thanx to "AirTel". Hope you take the rest of the PDA/(NOT SO) SMART PHONES to the cleaners!!!!

by Alivepanz, Kochi, on Nov 17, 2006 06:21 AM, Report abuse Reply

Blackberry is relying too much on their name with this launch. It has nothing new. A 1.3 mpixel cam is laughable for a high end product. Shows that they've lost ground to competitors.

by nuffsaid, nuffsaid, on Nov 14, 2006 04:49 PM, Report abuse Reply

keyboard is too cramped, as far as weight is concerned, the earlier models were too bulky. This one is a step in the right direction.

by silly, Mumbai, on Nov 14, 2006 04:51 PM, Report abuse