Blackberry pearl? texting?

Question

okay, im thinking about getting a blackberry pearl. or maybe a lg shine, but im tired of texting on the phone i have now (razr) it just has a normal keypad where you have to tap the buttons 50 million times to type one sentence! does the pearl have like a qwerty keypad where each key has its own letter? that would make my like easier! i hope you understand my question....like the phone i have now has abc on one key, def, on the next, so it takes forever!!!!! anyone know???

and how are your experiences with the pearl??

Answer 1

I would say just get the LG Shine. The pearl is pretty complicated and its a lot more expensive. If you are already used to typing with a regular phone it will be hard to learn of a pearl. So just get a regular phone or a phone with 1 letter per key.

Answer 2

The newest model of pearls (8100 and up) are slimmer, so they have 2 letters per key.    At first this was annoying to me, but after a few hours I got the hang of it - you just type away and it displays the right word 99% of the time - and now it's very easy.  I text all the time, and it's much better than a standard phone, very quick.  Also, it's laid out in the Qwerty format.

If you are set on the 1 letter per key, go with the wider models, such as the new curve.

Answer 3

JP_27 is correct. The Pearl uses a keypad with 2 letters per key, and uses a technology called SureType. This technology allows you to type out a word and it typically correctly guesses the word you are trying to spell.

Also, the second-generation Pearls (8110, 8120 and 8130) come with Predictive text as well, that will actually guess the word you are trying to spell before you finish typing it. The original Pearl 8100 doesn't have predictive text in the default operating system.

With the SureType technology you will find that, with practice, you can type messages quickly and accurately.

Answer 4

Neither

have the Palm Centro and I love it!! The web browser is Great!!! much better than the Pearl's web browser!..The typing takes some getting used too (an hour tops) but it's still better than the Pearl's

The Centro is the main competetor to the Pearl and It's around the same price...

... I find the Blackberry Menu interface to be Very Dull, unatractive,quirky and not very user-friendly, whereas the Palm interface is very user-friendly and much easier for texting,email, and web browsing.

The Centro has a touchscreen too which is really cool!!

The Palm Centro is an EXCELLENT phone,( Soooo easy to use,ENORMOUS amount of features, Google maps, Telenav, and so much more... it's just great all around) You will have so much fun with it, figuring out all the cool things you can do! Don't listen to these Blackberry maniacs. The palm operating system is just superior overall to the Blackberry OS (RIM)

....I HIGHLY recommend the PALM CENTRO over the Blackberry Pearl!!

Answer 5

Then you will want a Curve instead of the pearl.