Im digging the new toy right now so maybe the pearl will be the next one for me.

Does anyone have an expected release date for the pearl?

Knowing Verizon ... the same time pork becomes kosher?

BGR has a spread sheet with release dates for the fall line up. It has BB Pearl 8130 dropping on Novemer 1st.

More Verizon Release Dates | The Boy Genius Report

see link above...

I'm with Verizon Wireless and never used a BB. I've been reading that the Pearl is still for business use but adds some consumer touches to it like the camera and picture messaging. Anyway, is there anyone on Verizon Wireless with a BB and how much do you pay a month? Right now, I have a regular phone but with a Premium Plan for $79.99 plus tax it costs me about $90 a month. With the BB plan would I go much higher than that? Right now I have unlimited use of email (year, basic email on a regular phone) and VZ Navigator which I use often. That's another reason why I am considering the Pearl because it has GPS. Is this something VW would disable?

I have a treo with unlimited data plan of $44/mo. I assume they have the some thing w BB.

Well, from reading their BB data plans, its much more expensive with the BB. The plans start at 79.99, I see and that doesn't include any text messaging.

But that does include minutes. For $80 it includes 450 minutes, unlimited calls to Verizon cells, unlimited nights and weekends.

Understood. And its also an unlimited plan. But I text message quite often so I think I'd have to go for the $99.99 plan. Of course, I'd be curious how VW will let us use the GPS function built into the Pearl.

The VZ advertisements for the 8130 say that it is 3G. Does that mean that it is faster than the 8830 in terms of data rates? How about the web browsing? I live in Houston and VZ has rolled out the BroadbandAccess, with pretty high data rates on the wireless cards. So, I think that the network capability is there.

The 8830 is 3G as well, as is the 8703e and the 7130e. So the speeds should be about the same unless the 8130 has a faster processor.

Thanks. Thats very helpful. The advertisements seemed confusing.

VZ may lower rates, see here.

HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - View Single Post - New Data Plan(s) Coming

Is this wishful thinking on someone's part or is there some information from VZW to support the possibility of lower BB data plan rates? Wonder if this, if true, might be a "lite" plan.

The guy that posted the data plan rate change is very trustworthy on HF and has provided many release dates, so I believe that the plan will change to $29.99. Also, I think the plan will still be the regular BB "Unlimited" on Verizon.

You'll be seeing more from me around here. BlackBerry Pearl in January for me! (NE2 is then)

Does anyone know if the sms and emails are seperated in the Pearl or upcoming Verizon Pearl such as in the zen theme? If not, do we know if the zen theme can be added on?

anyone know if the OS of the pearl will be similar to the OS of the 8830? my g/f has the 8830 and I love how it takes your messages and shows them to you like a conversation between two chat clients.. I hope the pearl will do this as well

Will the new Pearl for Verizon have a camera?

obviously

does anybody have any more information about this new data plan for $29.99....will it still be unlimited?

When can we expect to see this available?

Wirelessly posted (Verizon 8830: BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

The rate change would be nice, if it covers unlimited

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry 8700g: BlackBerry8320/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

I don't think there has been any recent information about it.

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8700/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

None that