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RIM Blackberry 8100 Pearl

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O2, Orange, VodafonePLUS• Styling: nice weight, good feel, fits in a pocket, and still does all the BlackBerry things• Decent extras – built-in mapping for contacts (no GPS though), scrollwheel replaced by a trackball, lots of clever shortcuts• Excellent call and audio quality MINUS • 20-button keyboard takes some getting used to (but then it’s easy) • Glossy case gets smeared easily with fingerprints WE SAY And you thought BlackBerries were big, ugly, limited-function brutes? Here’s an eye-opener – a really good (and good-looking) smartphone, slimmer than a RAZR, and it has a camera too ...