Blackberry Pearl at Nextfest
I had a good poke around Nextfest and saw exactly how the future's going to look - and yes, thankfullly, it does involve
robots waiting on our every need. But I was also pretty interested in running my grubby little fingers over the new Blackberry Pearl - RIM's efforts at being meaningful to the consumer market (meaning: the consumers that aren't also business people during the day and therefore already have a paid-for Blackberry). Anyhow, the Pearl has a great form factor, very nimble interface (a little rollerball guides you across some plush icons) and is well-specced up (except maybe the camera could have topped 2 or 3 Megapixels, but whatever).
What perplexed me though, was the reaction I got when I asked one of the demonstrators if it had Wi-Fi. He looked at me like was a moron and said 'what?'. I said "Wi-Fi, y'know connect to a wireless LAN or to the internet at a hotspot" (this time, in my most cosmopolitan, non-Australian accent. He responded: Oh yes it does all that but it uses Bluetooth to transfer the files" (?!). I know that might sound a little like tech-snobbery but I do think if you're demonstrating the phone at a Wired exhibition..
robots waiting on our every need. But I was also pretty interested in running my grubby little fingers over the new Blackberry Pearl - RIM's efforts at being meaningful to the consumer market (meaning: the consumers that aren't also business people during the day and therefore already have a paid-for Blackberry). Anyhow, the Pearl has a great form factor, very nimble interface (a little rollerball guides you across some plush icons) and is well-specced up (except maybe the camera could have topped 2 or 3 Megapixels, but whatever).
What perplexed me though, was the reaction I got when I asked one of the demonstrators if it had Wi-Fi. He looked at me like was a moron and said 'what?'. I said "Wi-Fi, y'know connect to a wireless LAN or to the internet at a hotspot" (this time, in my most cosmopolitan, non-Australian accent. He responded: Oh yes it does all that but it uses Bluetooth to transfer the files" (?!). I know that might sound a little like tech-snobbery but I do think if you're demonstrating the phone at a Wired exhibition..
posted by Dave King at 6:51 AM
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So the latest and greatest phone allegedly to come out of a trendsetter doesn't have the ability to voip over WiFi? Could this be because of pressure from the telco’s not to include this feature?
nah - the point was it does have Wifi but the demo monkey didn't know.
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