May 31, 2008

Quick Metric Conversions on your Blackberry Pearl

Tired of using the internet or better yet the calculator to figure out the conversion from inches to cm?

Well another hidden trick of the Blackberry Pearl that not a lot of users discover is the ability of the Calculator Application on the Blackberry Pearl to do metric conversions.


Follow these simple steps:
1) Start up calculator application on your Pearl
2) Type in the number of what you want to convert (If you want to know how many cm is 50 inches, type in 5)
3) Then press the Menu button, and select "To Metric", then scroll to select your choice (In this example, we'll choose "in -> cm")
4) Last you'll see your results. (In our example it should show 127, which means 5 inches equals to 127cm)

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