T-Mobile Pearl 8120 to Finally get Official OS 4.5
By Thomas on Mar 12, 2009 with 5
Filed Under: 8100 Pearl • T-Mobile
Wow, the Pearls are starting to get phased out in my book and T-Mobile is finally offering an update to OS 4.5 starting tomorrow March 13th. I do remember that when Steve use to upgrade his 8100 to 4.5 it always had a plethora of bugs even if it was an official release on another carrier, but maybe the 8120 is different. Any of you out there on a T-Mobile Pearl 8120 with OS 4.5, how is it for you? I really don’t want to type out the features, or even post the features of OS 4.5 since it has been out forever, but here they are from BGR:
New Features:
- Music/video streaming (e.g. YouTube)
- Free/busy calendar lookup
- Remote search for e-mails on server
- Attachment download and document editing
- Wireless software upgrades
- myFaves 1.5
- New browser start page
- Updated UI
- WAP 2.0 (Wireless Application Protocol) better downloading, games and applications
- Voice IT policy controls on International Dialing and more.
- BlackBerry Maps enhancements (points of interest, saving directions, graphical improvements)
- GSM/EDGE toggle
- HTML e-mail for BlackBerry Internet Solution (BIS) account
Fixed bugs:
- UMA performance
- myFaves icon sync
- myFaves activity log
- myFaves icon appearance
- myFaves birthday/anniversary pop-up
- Uncaught Java exception errors when downloading certain audio files
- Device rebooting when on a Belkin Router or certain N type routers
via BGR
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I would like to ask why there doing this now. It is a tad late.
Damn.. they never released it for the 8100 though.
T-Mobile kept sending me txts to upgrade my 8320 to OS 4.5 – IMHO, it wasn’t worth it:
Video recording capability. – Not something I’ll ever use.
HTML email for internet email accounts. – There are better alternatives out there.
Music and Video Streaming video capabilities. – Again, nothing I’d use
New browser home page design. – Layout is bad
Improved downloading experience. – Not true
Improved UMA and data performance. – Not true
Attachment downloading and document editing. – Can’t tell yet, although 4.5 includes Documents to Go
Free/Busy calendar look-up and remote email search for BES users (Requires BES SW 4.1.5 or higher) – Not a BES user.
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Oh because, they probably forgot about the lonely Pearl 81xx users. Time to upgrade people.