New BlackBerry Pearl 8130 Unboxing in 2022 - I Missed BlackBerry Videos! 

How is everyone surviving out in BlackBerry world?

My first smartphone was this exact phone (the silver Verizon version). Before that, I thought a smartphone was one that could play music. I had the Sony Walkman phone right before this one. The Pearl actually changed my life. That red notification light along with push email made me immediately more in touch with people. I was hooked and vowed "Blackberry for life" from that point. Who would have thought that 16 years later I'd be trying to manipulate the big Wireless companies into continuing to use my precious BlackBerry. The journey began with the 8130 and the journey continues (or ends, time will tell) with the Key2. Thanks for taking me back! You are one that understands the joy these simple but profound devices bring us. Keep rocking it, Steve! We're loving all the variety!

Thank you for continuing to make BlackBerry videos. Never used the Pearl, as was on the 8700 at the time and didn’t like the idea of SureType, but fun to see the device in action so many years later. Am currently on the Pixel 6, which is a great device, but definitely miss the physical keyboard and the uniqueness of being a BlackBerry user. There were so few of us on BlackBerry in the early 00s and now again in the early 20s. Seems like BlackBerry users are always the first ones in and the last ones out. Agree that a big name needs to join the physical keyboard space for a new device to have any potential of success. Keep up the fun content.

I’ve been on iPhone since 2014. But my I has used my pearl all the way til 2012. Seriously one of the best phones ever.

This just makes me want a proper black berry passport or classic, i wish google, apple or samsung would make one... :-(

I have fond memories of my Pearl 8110. I remember selling my iPod Video 30GB back in 2009 to buy one of these used off Craigslist. I was 14 at the time and I didn't use it for any smartphone functionality. Just wanted something to text with after years of T9 texting. I had a couple other Blackberries after that(Curve 8320, Bold 9700, Q10, BB Classic) until I eventually switched to Android. Yeah, I was that dude using a Blackberry until 2015. Pretty solid phones for what I needed. Something about having a physical keyboard just appealed to me for a long time.

Great video sir. My wife still uses a Blackberry Pearl 8120 in Mexico. I unlocked it for Telcel. Luckily Mexico is supporting 3g so she’s good for now. Greetings from Reynosa, Mexico.

I miss my pink Blackberry Pearl. It was my first smart phone. I also miss all the accessories that phones used to come with. It was like a goody bag of stuff.

I bought a moto flip 2 just for the nostalgia. I've been using that for about 8 months. I agree with you, unless nokia make one last swing at a keyboard phone I think that's pretty much it. thanks for the vids!

My first of many BlackBerry was the T Mobile Pearl 8100 back in 2007. I miss those days when there were 6 different operating systems now only two 😢. Enjoy your RU-vid videos

I always wondered how difficult it was for the programmers/developers to implement the 2-letters-per-button keyboard on these.

The train's left the station. There's no getting off. I like my Pixel 6 quirks and all. I have my Q10 up and running. It's okay for mails but surfing's out. Almost every website is considered unsafe by the blindsided Q10. The weather report is stuck on Jan. 10; the clock insists I'm in Iceland.

Great video! Phones today just aren't nearly as exciting anymore. Maybe with the exception of foldable phones an the surface duo (which I still think has yet to unlock it's full potential), but even those are just android phones and android to me feels like it's getting less refined as they release new versions...

Currently still rocking the Blackberry KeyOne... will rock it till it goes ka-put! May try a Key2 in the mix there, then the unihertz slim. Eventually if no one comes thru with a keyboard phone, iPhone will be the fallback. Blackberry's and Apple's... just hanging with the fruit phones... 🤣

You could fit nearly four Pearls into that S22 Ultra.

Definitely a strange design choice on the Titan Slim to waste all of that screen space with the bezels, but for everything else I will wait until we have specs, pricing, availability, and reviews up. Been using the OG Titan for a few months and am generally impressed with it, so I'm not in the market for something else, but I'm glad Unihertz is adding another member even if it is looking like just a Key ripoff.

Man I would love for a real Blackberry like phone, I kinda missed all the cool blackberries. I think it's a perfect spot for Motorola to come in with one.

The color is actually called "amethyst".

Still using my BB Passport, working fine and fulfilling my needs. Will let go when it's really dead.

This was fun to see

I just can't move on. I don't know what to do at the end of this year when my Droid 4 goes defunct because of lack of VoLTE. The Titans are cool yes but they don't have that same appeal of the beautiful slide out keyboard and they are horribly bulky.

The one Blackberry I hated was the original Storm. I hated you had to press many times to get response. Well to be fair I feel they rushed their first touch screen to compete with iphone and galaxy devices.

why are you torturing us with these awesome blackberries! man, I still can't believe we got hosed on the new blackberry by OM.

Bring back these phones

I had blackberry nowihave the iPhone! The blackberry has amazing anti spy ware when iwas on my phone when someone tried to hack it a eye sjowedip in the right hand corner them it told me to log off) too easy to jailbreak and hack a iphone