BlackBerry Pearl 9100 revealed, has lost its gemstone but not its luster

BlackBerry Pearl 9100 revealed, has lost its gemstone but not its luster

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 this should fill the tiny BlackBerry void once again — whenever it ships.

Update: But of course the original 8100 also had SureType, not QWERTY.

(Via Engadget Mobile.)