| | |  | Unlocked Cell Phones | Home » » Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip Red Unlocked | | | | | | | Description: | | BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is the first phone of the manufacturer in clamshell form-factor. Similar to the Pearl, it has trackball and SureType keyboard on the inside. As it is a clamshell, it has a second display on the front when closed, other specifications include microSDHC slot for memory, Wi-Fi and 2MP camera. | | | Features: | |
• This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
• Blackberry's first clamshell smartphone with dual LCD screens and SureType hybrid numeric/QWERTY keypad
• Connect with up to 10 personal and work email accounts; 2.0-megapixel camera; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD memory expansion up to 16 GB
• Up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 12.0 inches | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Very good flip phone with many features!Feb 25, 2009
By D. Truong
"Duke of New Mexico"
I've been using my new Blackberry 8220 flip phone for about a week now. Here are my impressions about this phone... the pros and cons. Keep in mind that this is my first Blackberry phone, so I do not review it in comparison to any other blackberry. Instead, I compare it to other flip phones I've had. My last flip phone was the Motorola KRZR K1. This phone eats it up, and spits it out.
Pros:
-Call quality: sound quality while making and receiving calls are good. There doesn't seem to be a difference in quality between making a wifi call or network phone call (see wifi)
- Wifi: This phone has a built in wifi receiver. This means that if you have a wifi connection at home (or any unsecured wifi signal) you can browse the web with this phone (for free). The pre-installed t-mobile browser is lame (it doesn't let you browse any website you want unless you sign up for the data plan). Download the free browser "Opera" for this phone, and you can cruise any website you want.
-Wifi calling: When you are connected to a strong wifi signal... you can make calls over the wifi connection, thereby not using up your minutes on your plan... very cool!
-web browsing: Web browsing is as good as it gets on a 240 x 320 resolution screen. Again, I recommend downloading a free copy of the Opera browser. When used with a fast wifi connection, loading time for pages is surprisingly fast.
-Built in mp3 player: The mp3 player works well and sounds good, but the layout/interface could be better. (tip: use button #4,#6 to skip songs instead of using trackball) For example, when the phone is closed... you can only access volume controls. The built in standard 3.5mm headphone jack is fantastic, though! All phones should have this... I absolutely love not having to carry around an annoying adapter just to listen to my music in the car or over headphones. It's also cool that it has the ability to display album artwork :) This phone comes with a handsfree headset/stereo headphone... very cool! The included headphones sound surprisingly good too... about as good as a typical $30 set of Sony headphones.
-Screen: The screen is small but gorgeous... colors look saturated and images look very sharp.
-Camera: For a 2 megapixel camera... it works well and does a good job of automatically adjusting shutter and exposure. Color saturation and contrast could be better, though. Even on the highest resolution... images lack high contrast and sharpness. Built in flash is a nice extra.
-mp3 ringers - I really love the fact that you can use any mp3/sound file as a ring-tone, alarm tone, alert tone... etc.
-Texting: At first, I really hated the button configuration for texting. It's totally different from most phones. But once you get used to it, texting on this phone works very well and the intelligent word suggestions are pretty good at guessing what word you're typing. The ability to add your own words to the custom library is great, too. I love that when a text messagecomes, you can preview the first few lines of the on the front screen... very useful! Also, there are special status lights on the front of the phone that blinks Red on the front of the phone when you have an unread text.
-Picture texting: Photo texting seems to work relatively well, but the only limitation is that you can only add a few words of text along with the image. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the 'mms message system' or phone.
-expandable mini-SD/mini-SDHC. This is awesome for storing tons of images and music for the mp3 player... very cool! Right now, you can expand it up to a 16GB micro SDHC card and essentially have a 16gb Mp3 player in addition to a phone.
Cons:
-Battery Life: Sadly, the battery does not seem to last very long... even when the phone is only used for texting. For example, I noticed that the battery drained down to about 40% capacity from just one day of texting (no phone calls). To be fair, I do text a lot in one day (perhaps 50 a day?) Sadly it's a phone you'll probably have to charge every day even if you don't use it very often throughout the course of your day. If you're listening Blackberry, please release a Hi-capacity battery for this phone!
-Non-standard USB connector: I don't like that it has a non-standard usb connection. If you loose the cable, you'll have to get one especially made for the blackberry. They could have easily made it the standard min-usb to USB connection (but they didn't... GRrr!) Oh well, at least they got the standard 3.5mm headphone jack right.
- The whole phone is very prone to fingerprint smudging... so it ends up looking oily and kinda gross, if not cleaned like... everyday.
Conclusion: The positive features greatly outweigh the few negative things about this phone. This phone has an impressive array of features... considering how small the device is. It's really a tiny computer in addition to a phone, and it does most things pretty darn well. If you're into flip phones, and want one that does more than probably any other one out there...then this one may be the phone for you. I just wish that the battery on this baby lasted longer! Oh well, even tiny computers take lots of juice I guess :)
Fun tip: You can get the game Pac-man for this phone for free online :)
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Good Phone, only if i could turn it on.....May 08, 2010
By J. Chavez
The phone is a pretty good one now doubt about that but this provider fails to inform its customers that thia product does not come with a BATTERY nor a CHARGER. I had to spend an additional 80 dollars for a new battery and charger so i can actually use this phone. This phone was actually available on [...] as an unlocked phone (not a cracked T-Mobile version like this) for $229.99. I ended up spending much more than that because i thought i was getting a better deal buying this. Dont waste your money with this individual.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
BlackBerry primerSep 18, 2010
By Tomasa Tomasa
Background: If you do your research on this phone (and other BlackBerry's) you will note that many people talk about the bugs/problems, etc. Many of these complaints are hardware based (bad chips, etc) NOT software based (although it may seem so).
Make sure that if you buy it, you can return it (if bad) with no hassles/restocking fees (example: Amazon and sold by Amazon).
Condition: Mines was like new (with covered screens), original box, USB cable, power cable, original CD (there's and update online), headset and small instruction booklet (does not look original). Mines had no software/hardware issues (no rebooting, no Bluetooth issues, no slowdowns, etc).
The advantages in general of the blackberry's are the great screen (geared for text readers) and the keyboard.
The bad is the Blackberry "WiFi situation": they want you to buy the "blackberry internet plan" which is a hookup with your cell phone provider. Cell phone providers will have different names for this plan but note that it will cost you in the US around $15-$20. If you have a prepaid plan they will tell you the plan is not available (unless you have a monthly plan). I don't recommend this plan (if you can get it) because I consider it a ripoff. That will probably be the biggest issue with this phone (and all blackberry's).
The workaround: If you want to use Wi-Fi they will use a combination of WiFi and GPRS/EDGE. For example when you try to use the BlackBerry GMail app from Google you will be able to install it halfway but when it tries to connect it will tell you, you need a connection. If you disable your data connection (GPRS/EDGE) you will get the same result and so on and so forth with different applications.
To get around this BlackBerry Wi-Fi situation you have to get applications that are not exactly BlueBerry approved (and you will probably not see in their new store) that allow you to use Wi-Fi ONLY and not a combination Wi-Fi/GRPS/EDGE (again they use EDGE/GPRS to check if you have the BlackBerry Plan if you don't they don't give you access). For example for GMail I use LogicMail (uses Wi-Fi only), UberTwitter, Opera Mini, Yahoo Mail (you have to use their website) with the Opera Mini browser because you won't be able to use it with the BlackBerry browser (these are the only ones I found that I installed).
Final review: Great phone, almost perfect form factor and screen (recommended 7 point font), almost perfect for SMS/MMS/emailing. Wi-Fi, Keyboard is better than a standard number keyboard but NOT better than a full keyboard (of course). If you can deal with the Wi-Fi issue (and sub par and very limited apps compared to the IPhone or even Windows Mobile phone) then this is a GREAT phone!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Nothing but problems!Sep 16, 2010
By Katharin Lisenbee
This phone has given me nothing but problems after the first 6 months. It started to turn off all on it's own even with a full battery charge. I replaced the battery and the problem continued. T-Mobile then sent me a replacement. Had the same problem of it turning off. The only way to get it to turn back on was to pull the battery out then put it back in. Now that I've gone the the warranty on both phones, it's started up with a new problem. Most people buy a Blackberry in order to receive email on their phone. Well the only way I can get me emails to load to my phone is to open the web browser. Once it's open, the emails start to download. That will work for about 5 minutes. Then I'll have to go back and repeat the process every time I check for email. At this point I'm far enough into my contract I can get another phone without too much added expense. It won't be another one of these for sure. I'm seriously considering going to an Android phone.
5 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Not a real Unlocked phoneFeb 19, 2010
By Avi Baumgart
"Dont Buy It"
The OEMshop who is the seller does not have a phone number and provide poor and partial customer service over email, moreover they refuse to provide any technical support for this BB Device. This phone is not a real unlocked phone but a cracked T-Mobile phone (not published). Also there is no charger included and the phone cannot connect to WiFi as published, I would not recommned to buy from this seller.
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