14 DAY TRIAL // Research In Motion officially announced on Tuesday the introduction of its latest Blackberry device, the BlackBerry Tour. The new handset comes with CDMA connectivity options, while also sporting high-end communications and multimedia capabilities, as well as impressive performance. In addition, the phone comes as a world device, feature-packed to offer connectivity and style.
“BlackBerry continues to be the top selling smartphone brand in North America and we are proud to add this powerful new 3G world phone to our successful product portfolio,” said Mike Lazaridis, president and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “With its striking design and exceptional performance, the new BlackBerry Tour will offer a compelling choice for the growing number of wireless customers looking to upgrade their existing cell phone to a smartphone.”
The new BlackBerry Tour features support for both high-speed 3G EV-DO Rev. A networks and 3G UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks. At the same time, the phone comes with a wide range of mobile solutions for email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS), social networking and multimedia capabilities as well as GPS receiver, so as to enable users to enjoy a leveraged experience both in their professional and personal lives.
The specification list of the handset shows a full-QWERTY keyboard, a 2.44-inch display that supports a 480 x 360 pixel resolution, a 3.2-megapixel photo snapper with flash, image stabilization, auto focus and video recording, a full HTML web browser, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, Bluetooth with A2DP/AVCRP, 256MB of flash memory coupled with a microSD/SDHC memory card slot that supports up to 16GB of additional storage space (while also supporting 32GB cards when available, says RIM), support for BlackBerry Maps and geotagging.
Other features of the device include BlackBerry Media Sync, voice-activated dialing, noise cancellation, speakerphone, DataViz Documents to Go (with support for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files), support for social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, instant messaging services like BlackBerry Messenger, Yahoo! IM, AIM, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger, as well as for BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. According to RIM, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 should come to the North American market this summer via various carriers.