A page on the Cingular Wireless devCentral site offers developers lists specs for a BlackBerry 8100c device indicated for release next month.
I personally suspect the page is fairly old. Why? Because T-Mobile's BlackBerry Pearl 8100 has a camera, and this identically numbered device does not. It could be that if this is an earlier dev page that got out, the page could have been designed at a point in time that Research In Motion wanted to keep camera-enabled Pearl talk to small circles of those devs who really needed to know this was in the works.
It could also be an older page because of the 8100c device letter branding- which, we're told, RIM is shunting aside for the future.
Another possibility: RIM wants to offer the sleekness of the Pearl but without the camera for those who don't need one.
But enough analysis. You came here for the specs, right? And we have them by the boatload:
Physical Characteristics-
- Changeable Faceplates (Front/Back/Side) No
- Device Dimensions (L/W/H, Volume) Approx. 107 mm x 50mm x 14.5 mm
- Device Weight Approx. 88 grams
- Display TFT
- Screen Size (pixels) 240x260
- Screen Type (Color, Grayscale, B&W) Color
- AMR Support Yes
- Band Support (850,900,1800,1900) 850/900/1800/1900
- Enhanced Operator Name String Yes
- Multislot Configuration (downlink slots x uplink slots) EDGE Class 10/ GPRS Class 10 (Max 5 slots in total, or a combination of 4 down 2 up to a max of 5 slots at any one time.)
- PBCCH Support Yes
- SMS Over GPRS Support No
- Terminal Assisted GPS No
- TTY Support Yes
- Application Processor Chipset Vendor Intel
- Baseband Chipset Vendor -
- RF Chipset Vendor Freescale
Operating System
- Operating System RIM
Storage
- Hard Drive N
- Removable Media N
Memory
- Flash Memory 64 MB flash memory
- Association of device-resident content to Caller/Call Group Yes
- Association of device-resident content to Screensaver NA (Screensaver is LCD turn-off)
- Association of device-resident content to Wallpaper Yes (GIF87a, GIF89, PNG, WBMP & JPG)
- Software MEdianet Labeling Yes
Ring Tone Capabilities
- Maximum Tone Size (KB) 300 KB
- Ring Tone Formats SP Midi, Standard MIDI, WAV, MP3
- Maximum Tone Length (sec) N/A
- Tone Quality (Polyphonic/Mono) 32 Polyphonic
- Tone Storage Capacity Limited only by remaining flash memory and expandable memory
- Graphic Formats GIF87a, GIF89, PNG, WBMP & JPG
- Graphic Storage Capacity Only limited by the amount of free Flash memory on the hanhdeld and expandable memory.
- Maximum Graphic Size (KB) Color images have no set maximum (512 KB recommended) and this is really based on the amount of flash memory available.
- Maximum Graphic Size (pixels) Mono images have a maximum of 65536 (64 KB) pixels. Colour images have no set maximum (512x512 recommended) and this is really based on the amount of flash memory available.
Messaging Capabilities
- Audio Format Support SP-MIDI, AMR-NB, MP3
- Concatenation Yes
- EMS/NSM - Extract embedded objects identified above to device-resident memory Yes
- Image Format Support GIF87a, GIF89, PNG, WBMP & JPG
- Maximum Length of Parsed URL - Maximum Size (KB) 300 KB
- Message Format Support SMIL
- Message Storage Capacity SMS- Limited only by remaining flash memory
- Storage Capacity Limited only by remaining flash memory
- MMS OMA 1.1
- Number of Objects per Slide Limited only by remaining flash memory
- Number of Slides Supported Limited only by remaining flash memory
- SMS Yes
- URL Extraction from MMS Yes
- URL Extraction From SMS Yes
- Video Format Support No
- Attachment Support Yes (receive and forward)
- Destination Address Details Yes (via BIS)
- Protocols Supported (IMAP, POP3) Yes (via BIS)
- Maximum Message Size (KB) Unlimited (BIS/BES handle this)
Browser Capabilities
- Browser Content (received) Size Limit Browser proposes a max size of 128KB (with v3.6 and greater). MDS 3.6 and greater limits all results to 128KB - MDS 4.1 and greater increases this limit to 409.6KB (Though this setting is controlled via the BES and the default setting is 256 KB)
- Browser Version (Vendor, Protocol Stack) RIM (4.2)
- Connection Orientation Both Supported
- Cookies Supported Yes
- Download Mechanisms Yes
- HTTP Get Formats Supported GIF87a, GIF89, PNG, WBMP & JPG
- Inbox Capacity Limited only by remaining flash memory
- Inline Rendering Maximum Image Size (KB) Color images have a recommended maximum of 512 x 512 pixels
- Inline Maximum Rendering Image Size (pixels) Screen Width
- Inline Render Formats Supported GIF87a, GIF89, PNG, WBMP & JPG
- Markup Language Support WML, xHTML, CSS
- Maximum Number of Cookies Configurable: Default = 10
- Maximum Size of Each Cookie 1 KB
- Redirect Length Limit (char) 1024 bytes
- URL Length Limit (char) 1024 bytes
- User Agent Model Identification BlackBerry8100/4.2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
- User Option and Control (SI, SL) Yes
- WAP Push Yes
- EMS/NSM N/A
- MMS OMA Forward Lock
- HTTP Get OMA Forward Lock
- Browser in-line Image Rendering N/A
- Synchronization Options No
- SyncML Included No
- Maximum Storage Capacity (KB) Limited only by remaining flash memory and expandable memory.
- Java Version Supported MIDP 2.0
- Maximum Application Size (KB) -
- Optional JSR Support 75 (PIM API only), 120, 118, 135, 139, 185
- Runtime Memory Available (KB) Variable (depends on remaining memory)
- Support for TCP/IP or UDP Connections TCP, UDP, socket stream, SSL, TLS
- Bluetooth (Integrated, Accessory) Integrated
- Cable (RS-232, USB) USB
- IR No
1. I bought a 2 GB micro card that fits in my Blackberry pearl by a physical size. When I inserted it in the phone the phone would not boot any more(the red light was constantly flashing until I turned the phone off and took the Micro SD card out. So far I could not find info on what is the additional flash memory size limit this device can handle.
If the max memory SD card memory this phone can handle is only 64 MB the guys from RIM have to update their hardware and OS or else they cannot compete in pocket PC arena despite their fancy multi media player etc. on Blackberry Pearl. (i.e. what are the owners going to play a 3 minute video or just MP3 or WMA music ?)
The Calendar event reminder that comes with the phone does not offer the audio alert off / on and sound selection - at least I could not find it (??)
If you have answers to the above two questions I would appreciate the answers.
Thank you.
Alex Dorogi
adorogi@yahoo.com
Posted at 11:58AM on Dec 17th 2006 by Alex Dorogi