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BlackBerry Tour 9630

engadget reviews the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630:

Pros:

  • the keyboard feels spacious and comfortable
  • a high resolution 480 x 360 screen
  • BlackBerry Tour has two versions: with camera and without
  • a cleaner UI, a more extensive smiley collection, and functionality to send your location using the built-in GPS.
  • the built-in GPS chip seems to be unlocked, meaning that it will work with third party apps. Verizon has gotten a lot of flack in the past about the decision to lock it down only for VZ Navigator

Cons:

  • the screen itself seems to be incredibly sensitive to pressure
  • The Tour is quoting 5 hours of talk time and 14 days of standby which seems to be about right.
  • Not WiFi – if you like to travel abroad, and wifi is really irreplaceable in some of the more rural, remote, less industrialized

RIM would love to put WiFi in these devices, and it’s super-easy for them to do so. But Verizon has said no. Fortunately for all of us, this is supposedly changing in coming months.

BlackBerry Tour 9630

BlackBerry Tour 9630

The BlackBerry Tour 9630 cell phone lack of focus on the apps, there’s one real reason why we didn’t highlight every individual app on here: There’s not all that much new. If you read the introduction section, you’ll see that we go through the motions to say that this really has everything that’s been around with more recent BlackBerry devices like the Bold and 8900. We could go into the Browser wars, but there isn’t anything really new in this device that isn’t available on those other devices mentioned. It actually reminds me to link up to this piece, which went VERY in depth with BlackBerry browsers, and how (un)usable they are.

via engadget



Categories: New BlackBerry Cell Phones, New Verizon Phones, tags: , , - - Posted on July 7th, 2009 and last modified on July 7th, 2009, by New Cell Phones |