Unlocked BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 Smartphone for only $299

Catch of the Day has a sweet deal for the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 Smartphone. They are selling it for only $299 plus $6.95 for shipping. The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is a slim and compact smartphone with features like Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G support. It has external media keys and the optical touch pad felt easy to use. The 9100 ships with a BlackBerry OS 5, but it is upgradable to OS 6. BlackBerry OS 6 will bring a whole new interface to the Pearl, with a different home screen experience, a new WebKit browser, universal search, and more. With the new OS, it works surprisingly well with the optical touch pad. The Pearl 3G 9100 is a quad-band world phone, with quad-band 3G support, so you can theoretically use this anywhere in the world.