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Sorry to make this conclusion. I had high expectation when I ordered it from Rogers 10 days ago. However, problems keep on coming.
1. Voice dialing works very poor from the beginning. No practical usage in real life
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I find it very useful. It's not 100% perfect but it still works for me. You have to make sure you say the entire name (first, last). You have to make sure you pronounce correctly and clearly. There are few bugs in it but it can be solved. Just do a search on voice dialing or voice command.
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2. Voice dialing totally stopped working after updating some of my contacts. Removing blank names and special characters didn’t solve the problem. Re-install everything (application & data) didn’t work either. Had to remove hundreds of suspected contacts from my list to get rid of the issue.
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Check my answer on #1
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3. BlackBerry frozen/crashed during an ordinary phone call (calling out from Pearl), didn't recover till at an hour later and showed Msg "Uncaught exception: Application net_rim_bb_phone_app (47) is not responding. Process terminated." Help desk said “- It happens randomly to all BlackBerry once every 3~4 months, esp. if call long is too long (hundreds). Can remove the battery, wait for 20 seconds, and let it restart”
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You don't have to wait an hour, just remove the battery and put it back in. This never happen to me so my guess is you may have too many programs running in the background and you may want to update your OS.
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4. When receiving phone calls, can hear the ring & see display, but sometimes all keyboard including the trackball didn’t response to any key press. It happened twice already in less than 2 days.
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Maybe defective keyboard. There have been some posts and complaints about the keyboard. You should just exchange the phone.
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5. Startup is very slow, more like a PC instead of a PDA
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That's one of my complaints but I still love the 8100.
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IMHO, RIM did a very poor quality control on the BlackBerry Pearl. I’ll have to return it.
This kind of unstable product will kill my business.
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Well, try the 8800 and 8300. I know the 8800 is out for Cingular and the 8300 will come out soon.