Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Sprint announces RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone


Sprint has officially announced Research In Motion's BlackBerry Tour 9630 full-QWERTY smartphone. The Tour is a 3G device that will let users utilize Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data network and while also connecting to UMTS/HSPA networks outside of the U.S.

Users can stay connected through instant messenger services, BlackBerry Messenger, social networking websites and, of course, they can sync their data using BlackBerry's legendary Enterprise Server technology.

Photographs can be shot with the Tour's 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, and they will look sharp on the device's 65k color, high-resolution 480 x 340 pixel display. They can save them on the phone's 256MB of internal memory or onto an external microSD card.

Users can utilize Sprint services like Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV, Sprint NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile, and listen to the services through an integrated 3.5mm audio headphone port or make use of wireless stereo Bluetooth headphones.

The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 will available later this summer from Sprint for $199.99 with a two-year customer agreement and $100 mail-in rebate. Verizon also announced that it will release the BlackBerry Tour with a teaser page it launched yesterday. The company did not say whether or not it will release the 9630 or a different variant of the Tour.

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