RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Tour Smartphone

by on 16. Jun, 2009

Research In Motion (RIM) today has introduced the BlackBerry Tour, featuring both EV-DO Rev. A, UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM supported networks so that you can use it in any places.

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The BlackBerry Tour is in a chic black finish with chrome highlights surrounding its body design (112mm x 62mm x 14.2mm and 130g). It also includes a full-QWERTY keyboard, 2.44-inch display with 480 x 360 resolution, full HTML web browser and 3.2 megapixel camera. The camera module seems to be a better one with flash LED, image stabilization and auto focusing.

For those business users who need some entertainment on the road, the BlackBerry Tour has a 3.5mm headset jack and support the Bluetooth Stereo Audio Profile (A2DP/AVCRP) for wireless music listening. Other than the 256MB flash memory, its microSD/SDHC card slot will allow up to 16GB microSDHC memory card for your file storage.

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The BlackBerry Tour smartphone (model number: 9630) is expected to be available this summer from carriers in North America.

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  • coolfx35

    Think of Blackberry Tour as the Storm with the 8900 screen (smaller than the Bold but higher resolution), and the Bold keyboard (slightly shrunk to fit the phone size) and some minor cosmetic changes. From the videos we have seen the bask of the inside looks exactly the same as the Storm.

    Sprint and Palm did a great job getting the words out there on the palm pre, verizon and rim needs to step up and spend some money on advertising this blackberry tour, what you guys think?

    share your views at http://www.BlackBerry-Tour.com a forum dedicated to the blackberry tour.