BlackBerry Pearl 8100

Ok, so ive had my eye on this phone for about a week now and i pretty much had made up my mind to treat myself on my upcoming bday, until finding this out. It had everything necessary to be the perfect phone, but now im reading in other forums there is no streaming video via the net and audio will need a third party app installed and be a seperate bill as well (QuickPlayer). So my question is this, will it become an option once the 3G network replaces EDGE? And how soon is this suppose to happen anyways? I just dont get what is the purpose of having such a powerful phone on a network that cant bring out its full capabilities.

Also what appealed to me is the option to use this phone as a modem for my laptop, and I guess using the EDGE netw...
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