The folks at Wirefly sent me over a Blackberry Tour 9630 to have a look at, and I was actually pretty happy with this one.  There was a lot to like here, even some deeply unexpected surprises, that won my attention over. The Blackberry Tour 9630 is a candy bar style smartphone with trackball navigation.  [...]

The BlackBerry Tour 9630 of Verizon will receive an update tomorrow which makes the operative system jump to version 5.0.0.591. In terms of new features the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 will get Push To Talk which is the main update, but other improvements were made to the camera and bluetooth functionality. The SMS messaging system [...]

Blackberry phones are fantastic on the average, but they’re also a little singleminded.  Basically, if you’re not planning to use a Blackberry for business then you’re largely out of luck.  Blackberry phones don’t seem to do too well with things like games, video and music, though some do better than others.  And the Blackberry Tour [...]

Just in case RIM’s BlackBerry Curve didn’t have enough color schemes, Sprint has announced the launch of their exclusive Inferno Orange 8330 that we first heard about last week. Sure, this device is sure to be overshadowed by the recently launched BlackBerry Tour but perhaps its $49.99 price point after mail-in rebate and 2-year contract [...]

Here’s some good news, at least for those Sprint customers expecting more from their default carrier. Sprint wants its future phones, at least the smart ones, to have WiFi capabilities. According to a Sprint spokesperson WiFi will be there “in all its major devices going forward”. The brief announcement was made while Sprint was confirming [...]

We just got word that Verizon Wireless would allow its subscribers to pre-order the Blackberry Tour which raised the question; will Sprint do the same? According to a recent tweet from Sprint’s manager of social media and interactive communications, no. A twitter user reportedly asked if the Blackberry Tour would be made available to for [...]

Just a few days ago a leaked advertisement displayed the BlackBerry Tour’s Verizon Wireless release date as being July 12th. Well, it looks like that advertisement held some truth as Verizon has come forth and confirmed that the phone will in fact be hitting the carrier on July 12th for $200. So what have you, [...]