{"id":29,"date":"2006-09-07T22:44:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T08:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/blackberry-pearls-trackball\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T22:44:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T08:44:27","slug":"blackberry-pearls-trackball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/blackberry-pearls-trackball\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry Pearl&#8217;s Trackball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Blackberry user. So, I was quickly reading through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14701948\/\">MSNBC&#8217;s Gary Krakow&#8217;s review of the new Blackberry Pearl from T-Mobile<\/a> until I hit this sentence in his review: <em>Aside from its size, Pearl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best new feature is its revolutionary pointing device \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a tiny, full-function trackball<\/em>. A trackball makes so much sense. Every smartphone needs one for navigation. And, every phone peripheral maker should add one to their Bluetooth or Infrared wireless keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Blackberry user. So, I was quickly reading through MSNBC&#8217;s Gary Krakow&#8217;s review of the new Blackberry Pearl from T-Mobile until I hit this sentence in his review: Aside from its size, Pearl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best new feature is its revolutionary pointing device \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a tiny, full-function trackball. A trackball makes so much sense. Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}