BlackBerry Tour 9630 the latest BlackBerry from Research In Motion is coming. RIM is expected to launch the BlackBerry Tour 9630 in July, meaning you can use it in CDMA and GSM networks across the world. Blackberry already has a World Phone, a CDMA phone which can roam in GSM networks as well. BlackBerry Tour looks like a mix of the popular BlackBerry Bold and the BlackBerry Curve models. The Tour is not a touchscreen phone. Though it resembles the Bold a lot, it is thinner, and more feature packed. The BlackBerry Tour is a 3G phone. However, the tour doesnt support WiFi, which is present in many earlier Blackberry models. There is an inbuilt 3.2 camera with video capabilities and an LED flash. Reviews indicate that the camera performs well, though the video facilities and this is not a BlackBerry fault – arent as good as one would like.RIM claims that the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is a fully-functional World Phone that supports global roaming on 3G networks. It works on quad-Band: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks; Single-Band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks and Dual-Band: 800/1900 MHz CDMA/EVDO Rev A network. However EVDO is a 3G networking technology, which is not available in India so far. BlackBerry Tour screen has a clear, high-resolution display. It is half VGA+, and the display is 480×360 pixel. BlackBerry says the screen displays over 65,000 colors. The BlackBerry’s USP is still its email client, which beats iPhone and Palm Pre by a mile. However, this user-friendliness is still not reflected in the Blackberry browser, which despite several modifications still cant keep up with the mobile browsers in the iPhone, Palm Pre and many Nokia phones. The BlackBerry Tour can display normal and HTML-rich pages, but the display is not as good or as fast as iPhone’s Safari. We are disappointed with the fact that the BlackBerry Tour 9630 doesnt have WiFi access. More and more companies and home are turning to WiFi hotspots, and theres no reason why the Tour could not have rolled out with WiFi. Especially since India doesnt have 3G yet, WiFi could have been a good way of cheap, fast and instant connections. The Tour, though, has Bluetooth capability. The BlackBerry Tour is capable of multi-tasking, which means you can play music or video files and use it as a portable media player, even as you check webpages and send mail. BlackBerry claims that its 1400 mAHr removable/rechargeable cryptographic lithium cell battery has a talk time of 5 hours and a standby time of 14 days.
