If you've owned a lot of BlackBerry Smartphones over the years, you know that when it comes to things like the battery door latch, SIM card and MicroSD card design and placement that RIM is always doing something different. Sometimes the designs are winner and sometimes, well, you can struggle with removing that SIM card for what feels like hours (especially if your name is Bla1ze!).
Enter the new Pearl. When pulling the battery door cover off the new BlackBerry Pearl 3G, we were a little confused for a second by this bright orange tab we were looking at, until it sunk in what we were looking at... a super easy and convenient way to remove the SIM card from the device. Check out the video above to see the mechanism in action. Good stuff right there!
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