Blackberry Pearl 8220 - Blackberry's First Flip Phone
Blackberry smartphones have followed a very set design over the years, the Curve editions are always slightly wider in girth but slim whereas the Pearl range is the closest a Blackberry phone comes to looking like a regular mobile device.
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Quality of 8220
I am very unhappy with the quality of my 8220I have had it less then a month
I keep getting the message SOS emergency calls only
T-Mobile's service SUCKS!!!!
They suggest I remove the battery and replace it when this happens.
I can and will not continue to do this I BOUGHT A NEW PHONE
I WANT A REPLACEMENT "CAN YOU HELP ME?
A pissed customer
Mike Woodruff
S0S messages
i bought the pearl 8220 a month or 2 ago. for a week it was fine, no SOS messages. the 1st day i bought it i put my old sim card from my other phone into it and it said invalid sim. so thinking it was my sim i went to tmobile replacing it. a week later i got sim card errors and sos messages. im sick of this phone & i dont know what to do. i put a piece of plastic behind the simcard to push it down and lock it in place & im hoping i dont get any more errors or SOS messages. this is my 4th phone in 3 months because all the phones ive been purchasing from tmobile are garbage and have some manufacturer defect & they tell me i have to just buy another phone. tmobile is garbage along with their policy.8220 Pearl stinks and so does T-Mobile
T-Mobile and Blackberry flip 8220 suck. Ever since I got the phone and hotspot router I have had to call about once a week for the 9 months I have had poor service. SOS all the time and having the phone 3 feet away from my T mobile Blue light on router and it says out of service.After all this time finally a rep said the blackberry is like a computer and needs the battery removed atleast once a week to reset - not just turned on and off. My PC is 8 years old and only gets turned on and off and works fine - suffice it to say they could have told me this 9 months ago or better yet before I signed up so I could have said FO and gone back to Verizon or anyone.