A Quick tour of the Verizon BlackBerry Tour
July 16, 2009 by Johan van Mierlo
Filed under RIM Blackberry
RIM (Research In Motion) just released a new model the Blackberry Tour. Right now the Blackberry Tour is available online with Verizon and Sprint for $199 with a 2 year contract. Verizon already has the Tour available in the stores.
The key features compared to some other Blackberries are:
- World Phone Capabilities
- Enhanced Multimedia
- 3.2MP Camera
- GPS and Blackberry Maps
- Slimmer 14.2 mm profile
- 256 MB built -in memory
- Voice Input & Output
- more
All in all the device feels good your hands and I love the keyboard with the trackball. But the features and specifications is what you would expect from any other phone these days.
What I do miss is the Wifi capabilities. A lot of 3G enabled phones these days do come without Wifi. If you would live in a world where 3G is continuously available it would make sense, but that is still not the case. That is why I still prefer to have Wifi on board.
For current Blackberry users this will be an improvement and a good upgrade if you like the non-touch screen and QWERTY keyboard.
Watch my quick Blackberry Tour video below to get a impression.
Johan van Mierlo has been writing and reviewing for the online communities since the launch of the handheld computer Palm IIIe and Compaq iPaq in 1998. He owned and tested many mobile devices including Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, Android, iPhone and many different GPS and Mobile products.Johan was awarded MVP Windows Mobile Devices by Microsoft in 2008 and 2009 for his community activities last year.
