With more than 3,700 authoritative posts on Howard Forums, Greg Gebhardt is one of the online world's best-known BlackBerry authorities.In today's new BlackBerry 8700 to BlackBerry Pearl thread (linked below), Greg makes an interesting comment.
He's tried the Pearl 8100 but it wasn't exactly his thing.
Why?
Greg writes that in his opinion, "the build quality on the 8100 is worst than the 8700. Nothing is as good as the old 75XX series."
That's a BlackBerry 7520 over there on the right.
Then Greg adds that he believes the Pearl is made of a cheap-enough quality that, in his judgement, "the cosmetics.. will not last long at all."
Readers, would you disagree or agree with Greg about either of his points: the Pearl 8100 is fragile and the 75xx's were/are the sturdiest BlackBerrys ever made?
1. Not only are they the sturdiest BB's, but I'd say they're among the sturdiest phones ever made. I've lost count of how many times I've dropped my 7520 -- it just keeps going.
Posted at 9:55AM on Oct 30th 2006 by MaxPower