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In one of our shootouts, we said that the only way BlackBerry was going to make it into the mainstream is if they add media capabilities in their platform. Well, they just did with the newly released T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl.

What's seemingly great about this is that they now have a 1.3 megapixel camera (no doubt it'll suck, but hey, at least there is one!), "real" web browsing (this means HTML y'all - no WAP pages and the like). It's a quad-band, looks pretty good, BUT it has the quasi-keyboard akin to the 7105t (from T-Mobile).

Stay tuned for more details...

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If you're still deciding between the MDA/8125 or the 8700g/8700c from either T-Mobile or Cingular respectively, this quick shootout may help you decide.

We are interested mostly from the standpoint of applications availabilty, web browsing (and associated apps such as instant messaging (IM) and all the features and functions that make the new generation of phones more like tiny PCs).

Each type of device has its own unique abilities whether it's the HTC Wizard platform, Palm Treo, Danger Hip-Top/"SideKick" or the Blackberry. In this article, we'll focus only on the MDA and 8700(x).

First things first, we have read many forum posts whereby people claim that all new phones come unlocked out-of-the-box. So let's see what happens when we put a T-Mobile sim in the Cingular 8700c..