A BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 disassembled, what’s inside?
A guy from Sycotec Solutions with full of curiousity try to disassemble a BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 (also known as Kickstart), to know what is it inside. So, what did he find inside the RIM phone? Not as good as we predicted, the build is claimed to be assembled from cheap part and not in standard build quality.
He said:
Maybe because this is a pre-production unit (at least I hope it is) they decided to use really cheap feeling plastic. After using a BlackBerry 8820 and the Bold I was surprised with the build quality. I wouldn’t have thought Research in Motion would do that, but then I remembered this is not a device to compete with the iPhone but it is targeted at the casual emailer. You know the type, he notices you using your BlackBerry and decides it is very imperative that he checks his email too.
I don’t know what RIM will react against this. Probably its price tag is too expensive for cheap phone part? More about his thought can be read at his post.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Using cheap part but not cheaper :p