Tour of New BlackBerry (9630) Tour With World Access

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on June 16, 2009 10:53 AM

RIM has announced the BlackBerry Tour - a new 3G BlackBerry smartphone for CDMA (Verizon Sprint) carriers, sometime in the summer. Sprint will sell the BlackBerry Tour for $200 with a contract and rebates. The BlackBerry Tour has a 3.2 megapixel camers, HTML browser, media player, GPS, expandable microSD, GPS, voice dialing and Bluetooth. It a world phone that will work with voice and UMTS/HSPA data networksin many parts of the world. If we really wanted to be punny, we could write, the BlackBerry Tour, will tour the world with you.

BlackBerry Tour is a competitor to the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre as far as features. It’s the first BlackBerry to use the faster CDMA Rev. A networks. I has better multimedia and video functions than the BlackBerry Curve and Bold. It has been reported that BlackBerry Tour is geared toward both consumer and business users.

The BlackBerry Tour smartphone also provides email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and social networking together with built-in GPS and advanced multimedia capabilities, enabling customers to make the most of both their personal and professional time.

The BlackBerry Tour features a black finish with chrome highlights and is 112mm x 62mm x 14.2mm and 130g. It includes a large, highly tactile, full-QWERTY keyboard with chrome frets and finely sculpted keys for fast and precise typing. In addition, the large (2.44”), bright display (480 x 360 resolution at 245 ppi) delivers the highest resolution available on a BlackBerry smartphone, presenting pictures, web pages and videos with clarity.

Other key features of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone Specs:

3.2 MP camera with flash, variable zoom, image stabilization, autofocus and video recording*.
Full HTML web browser, including support for streaming audio and video (RTSP).
Advanced media player for videos, pictures and music, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and support for the Bluetooth® Stereo Audio Profile (A2DP/AVCRP).
256MB Flash memory.
Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting cards of up to 16 GB today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available.
Built-in GPS with support for geotagging, BlackBerry® Maps and other location based applications and services.
BlackBerry® Media Sync allows customers to quickly and easily synch music from iTunes® and Windows Media Player with the smartphone**.
Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, enhanced background noise cancellation, a low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals.
Preloaded DataViz® Documents to Go®, allowing users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset.
Easy mobile access to Facebook®, MySpace and Flickr®, as well as popular instant messaging services including BlackBerry® Messenger, Yahoo!® IM, AIM®, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger™ .
Support for BlackBerry App World™, featuring a broad and growing catalog of third-party mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include travel, productivity, entertainment, games, social networking & sharing, news & weather, and more.
BlackBerry® Internet Service allows access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts.
BlackBerry® Enterprise Server provides advanced security and IT administration features within IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® environments.
Removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery for 5 hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time.