I just ordered my first smart phone an I am very excited. I don't have a personal assitant so I am hoping the Blackberry Pearl will suffice for now. I did some research on the phone and I asked someone who has one and the love it.

Now my biggest thing is I wanted one for a PDA. Like I said I hope it will suffice for a personal assistant for now. The phone also features Email capability, a 1.3 megapixal camera with a flash, an expansion slot for more memory, I qwert key pad, instant messaging capabilities, a gps capability, a map capability and it has bluetooth. I know I am leaving something out.

Cnet rates the phone at a 7.3 out of 10. The draw back to the phone according to Cnet is the expansion slot for the memory is behind the battery. There are also no external controls for the MP3 player but since I will not be using it for that much I won't mind that.

The pros according to Cnet are the excellent email capabilities, the bluetooth and the video playback. The email and PDA are what I am going to be using it for mostly. You can also log onto the local MLS and check out houses for sale through the phone as well. So I hope this phone will do for my persaonal assitant right now.

Now to all the personal assistants out there. I know you are very important parts of the real estate office and you handle a whole lot more than any phone could ever do so don't be hatin on me. I just needed someone to remind where to be and when to be there so I could not justify paying someone to sit around and tell me what to do. :)

I will let you know in the future how the Blackberry performs.