Blackberry Tour coming to US in late summer


Research in Motion (RIM) shares jumped nearly 3% this morning on news of the Blackberry Tour 9630 launch.

With hopes of luring customers away from competitors such as the iPhone and the Nokia N97, the Blackberry Tour is feature heavy and sports a sleek, light design. Blackberry also has “BlackBerry App World™,” but compared to the iPhone apps, they just seem… embarrassing. Sorry, Blackberry.

Features don’t seem too different from previous offerings on the Curve and Bold series. The Tour boasts a 3.2 megapixel camera and 256MB flash memory (expandable to 16MB.) Video recording is also supported with the purchase of a MicroSD card. Talk time clocks in at about 5 hours, with up to two weeks of standby time. The Tour supports 3G EV-DO Rev. A networks in North America and 3G UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks outside the states. The Tour has no support for Wi-Fi.

RIM is expecting to move 400-600,000 units through the end of August- but the iPhone 3G sold over a million units in three days last summer. The Tour (also known as Blackberry Niagara) is expected to launch through Verizon and Sprint, priced at $199 with a two-year contract.

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