Comments on: BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Phone, Black

By: B. Smith

B. Smith — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:35:04 +0000

I have had the phone for approximately one month and I love it. It took me a while to figure out all the features but now that I have the hang of it, I can’t believe I ever lived without this phone. I am more than pleased, I am happy with this purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: A. Armanyous

A. Armanyous — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:02:12 +0000

I upgraded from 7100 to 8220, I can summarize the great options as follows:

Miner options
VERY slow when placing a call, the tone comes after the number appears on screen.
VERT slow when using on line browser
Generally it is a slow OS.
VERY sensitive it powers down any time, some times when I click it on my holster or while on the meddle of a call.
Address book screen change to calling log screen buy it self when you ready to place a call.
Camera sound can not be muted
Blue tooth has so many restrictions, for example can not communicate with my HP IPAQ
And many more

Great options:
Auto self power down, this great tool powers down and restart by it self even in the meddle of phone call also as a black berry, it takes Only 5 minutes to come back to life.
Auto drop down calls (it is a great option when you have unwanted long call) could happened up to ONLY 3 times per call even after updating the firmware.

T mobile worked hard to replace the 1st one, now I have the same problems with the 2nd one,
Now they will replace the battery.

Every time calling T mobile, I spend around one hour troubleshoot the same garbage and looks like I have to replace it with another brand or another model.

This is very disappointing, frustrating and time waster type of crappy phone.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Atwood

Atwood — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:17:29 +0000

I urged my wife to buy the new BB Pearl Flip phone.

Nothing but frustration–will not hold a charge,and seemingly turns itself off or on at random times. Often proved very difficult to startup–would hourglass like crazy for long periods.

Too bad, because the design is quite thoughtful and attractive. So I gave it one star for design as a courtesy–the phone itself is a turkey.

My wife took the phone back to T-Mobile and exchanged it for a simpler phone.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Kguy

Kguy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:38:21 +0000

I bought this phone for 4 days and returned. As some reviews you can see here, I just wanna add that the battery doesn’t enough for 1 day working or you have to charge it twice. It’s ridiculous. Go with other not this one. Actually, I don’t really like flip phone.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: soon to be FYAP

soon to be FYAP — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:22:54 +0000

I was so excited to receive this phone. I love flip phones and thought that the features would suit my lifestyle well. So I was excited when the package arrived in the mail. I opened it only to find that the interior box that held the phone had a broken seal. Additionally the sim chip was snapped out and the phone had scratches on it. I had ordered this phone NEW and what arrived was someone else's problem. Then the long part of the story begins. I have had 8 and counting calls to Amazon. The first three were trying to get them to send me a UPS label because I refused to send the phone back on my dime (they said they would reimburse me but after the fact but I did not believe them). I waited Monday for my second phone that never came. It took a full 24 hourse for them to figure out why that happened. Now my second phone is completely out of my shopping cart and I am waiting for the phone department to do their magic. I have been waiting soon to be 2 weeks for this phone and hours of headaches. I almost don't want it anymore.

Better to buy a phone in person.

I wish I were writing a review of this phone...... Rating: 1 / 5