RIM’s brand new BlackBerry Pearl 3G will be available pretty soon in Australia, as Telstra – the country’s largest mobile operator – has just announced that it’s “the exclusive Australian launch partner” for it. Unlike Vodafone UK’s Pearl 3G (9105), Telstra’s version is the 9100, which has a SureType QWERTY keyboard instead of a regular, alphanumeric one. Other than that, the Pearl 3G 9100 features HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 360 x 400 ... Read More

The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 was, and still is, a lovely little phone, QWERTYfied, pocketable, and rocking that little milky trackball that gave it its name. There's finally a true successor coming down the pipeline (the flippy 8230 not really counting) though it ditches the iconic pearl for a now-standard (and hopefully more reliable) touchpad. There's a similarly swoopy SureType keyboard and the overall dimensions look very much the same, meaning ... Read More