With all the fantastic things that a BlackBerry Pearl can do, it's easy to forget that it's also a pretty darned handy-dandy cellular telephone. Early BlackBerries required a special headset connection to be used as telephones, and the earliest models had no phone functions at all; they were more like super-charged pagers. The Pearl, however, looks like a cellular phone at first glance and can be used effectively as a phone in the standard way (holding the phone up to your ear); it can be used with a wired headset or a Bluetooth wireless headset as well. The inclusion of what can only be described as "Star Trek"level voice-recognition technology for dialing contacts out of your Address Book or sending commands to the Pearl makes this device special. This chapter takes a brief look at how to use the Pearl as a phone and get the most out of it. |