Comments on: Full specs of the BlackBerry Tour leak out

By: amina

amina — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:10:55 +0000

my BB tour doesnt have yahoo or google or msn messenger, just the BB messenger, dont know if it was a factory error or something, what can i do????

By: NOC7

NOC7 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:31:14 +0000

Blackberry BOLD – 624 Mhz Processor – GSM – It has more but less options (carriers) when traveling.

Blackberry Tour – 528 Mhz Processor – GSM – Evdo – CDMA – It has alot more options for overseas carriers. Mostly likely to work when you travel.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:25:21 +0000

july 12 2009

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:02:56 +0000

BBs are not useless to us working professionals.
So back to your Latte.

By: Bard

Bard — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:53:37 +0000

I’d like to have WiFi, like for going out of the country, where I wouldn’t have to pay for WiFi use, but will have to pay extraordinary costs to use data on my phone.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:40:25 +0000

i’m interested in getting the tour, but i don’t know much about phones. is wifi necessary if you have good 3G coverage? or do people want wifi mainly for when they’re not in an area with good service but have wifi available? sorry if this is a stupid question, i just don’t really understand.

By: hitdog

hitdog — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:52:09 +0000

Well for one, for Verizon customers we don’t have a phone like this. We still have the old school Curve with runs Rev 0. This will run Rev A on VZW, which is faster internet.

Can’t answer the Q for other carriers, but for VZW customers this is a good upgrade from the 8330.

and you don’t need wifi if you have rev A net. I went from TMO to VZW. Had wifi with TMO, but don’t miss it with VZW’s faster internet. Yes a little slower, but not by too terribly much. It’s not a big deal.

Would I like to have wifi? yes. Is it a deal breaker on RevA? Nope.

By: hitdog

hitdog — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:46:52 +0000

July 13 foe Verizon per Phone Arena.

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:13:32 +0000

Rono said.
The Tour will have everything I need, including the carrier I choose to be on. Your preferences are cleary different, and thats cool, but please don’t think what you would like to see on a phone is what everyone else wants to see on a phone.
THAT’S THE BEST COMMENT IN AGES. SALUTE COMRADE RONO. FOR REAL!

By: deRusett

deRusett — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:43:37 +0000

@ iamny

The bold is missing one thing I NEED CDMA coverage… GSM coverage is not very reliable in 2/3rds of the area I travel for work.

By: Rono

Rono — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:20:08 +0000

On Jun 5, 2009 @ 11:41 am, iamny Said:

“Same BS OS. nothing new. RIM has been dishin out the same phone for a year now nd were hype about this? Sure the form factors of the bold, curve and this phone are a little different and one may have wifi while the one doesn’t or one may have 3g while the others don’t, but really ppl are they at all that diff? Your best bet is goin with a BOLD, it has everything you need.”

The Tour will have everything I need, including the carrier I choose to be on. Your preferences are cleary different, and thats cool, but please don’t think what you would like to see on a phone is what everyone else wants to see on a phone.

By: iamny

iamny — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:41:20 +0000

This s*hit sucks. Same BS OS. nothing new. RIM has been dishin out the same phone for a year now nd were hype about this? Sure the form factors of the bold, curve and this phone are a little different and one may have wifi while the one doesn’t or one may have 3g while the others don’t, but really ppl are they at all that diff? Your best bet is goin with a BOLD, it has everything you need.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:38:48 +0000

no complaints.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:13:45 +0000

No WiFi make this another wannabee Bold

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:44:13 +0000

@ chris
As of now its your word vs. BG’s in the original review. Then again, it dosent necceserilly mean that you’r flat out wrong, but I remeber that convo back then, and it seemed as if this was settled on the 624. Now, I’d like to ask BG himself to address it.
Will ya, ? Please.
Thanks.

By: grrr

grrr — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:18:23 +0000

release the damn Thing verizon, Or at least give Us some pRomo material. WE’RE SICK OF WAITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:11:49 +0000

@JoeTour
There is no confusion.
Bold – Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor. (624Mhz)
Tour – Qualcomm MSM7600 processor. (528Mhz)

By: deRusett

deRusett — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:09:44 +0000

For all you Big Red Customers who say this means nothing until it reaches Big Red, I give you the 1 fingered salute! ha

I can’t wait for this phone, no wifi ticks me off, but it is about time bell got something worth while for me to go and get, the storm interested me, but it was not worth it, this tour, this will carry me into 2011 then hopefully I’ll get Wifi.

Can we actually say which processor is faster the bold or this tour, clocks might be different, but there is so much more then just clock speed, as it stands the added addressable memory for the tour should make for a great device, I’m excited to see what sort of apps people start making now that they have all kinds of room to make them in.

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:07:49 +0000

@JoeTour
How was I wrong? You obviously did not read the messages, because I wrote this message at 1am. Your message stating I was wrong was sent a lot later. Here is the quote I pulled from this list above your “wrong” comment. I know it is 624mhz and acknowledged I had it confused with something else. I told you it was 624mhz in another article a while ago … we had this same convo!

“@JoeTour
BlackBerry Bold has a 624mhz Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor and the Tour has a 528mhz MSM7600″

By: Mik

Mik — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:04:51 +0000

Please disregard my last post. I had copied and pasted some info in there as well as a quote from someone else that didn’t come up and also deleted a lot of what I typed.

By: Mik

Mik — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:01:51 +0000

The facts have been released prior to this post.
The Tour will not have the same processor as the Bold. It will have a the same processor as the Storm. Qualicom chipset apposed to
The Tour is essentailly a storm in a standard BB package but with more memory.

By: bb4life

bb4life — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:42:24 +0000

I for one am very happy to see that the tour only weights 130gs (4.55 oz) that is basically right in between my featherlite curve and the dumbell storm i tried out for a while! excellent, that was one of my main concerns.

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:41:20 +0000

ever since BG did the review on the Tour, and in it he specifacally sya s it has a 624 mhz, there have been quite confusion about it, everyone seems to know (by gut). we need facts written on paper what this thing will have.
thanks in advance.
anybody?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:38:23 +0000

@ CHRIS COCK

this phone is crap regardless

By: fred

fred — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:37:31 +0000

No wifi / no streaming / no decent web brower

Another downer for bberry users.

By: Mik

Mik — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:33:14 +0000

No one is going to be disapointed with this device unless the lack of Wifi is what’s bothering you. If your worried because it doens’t surpass the specs of the Bold then you shouldn’t. It may not have an equivilent or larger processor but from what I have read it will NOT be noticably slower than the Bold to the user.
The only reason I personally would prefer the Bold is because of the size. I would defintiely like the bit of extra room on the keyboard and screen. Other than that I am anxiously awaiting the Tour’s release.
Unless the Verizon Wifi/Mifi (whatever they’re caling it)spots pop up everywhere in the next 6 months I could care less about not having Wifi. There are plenty of other things I can do with my BB if I want to watch the battery meter drain before my eyes.
On the flip side of that argument I can completely understand (from a business standpoint) why you would want/need Wifi. I use mine for personal use and very little business use, so for me personally I will be happy with the Tour with out Wifi.

By: D

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:21:01 +0000

To: JoeTour – Sorry the Tour is the same 528MHz as the Storm not the 624 of the Bold. Two diff processors completely by diff manufacturers.

By: D

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:15:01 +0000

To jawsnj: I do believe it is a technology (CDMA vs GSM)thing. GSM does voice and data at the same time CDMA does not. So going to have to wait till LTE for that.

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:36:40 +0000

624 mhz for the Tour. Period. Sorry chris, your wrong.

By: jawsnj

jawsnj — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:56:29 +0000

Does anyone know if you will be able to do data and voice at the same time (like the bold).

I have the 8330 on vzw and would love the ability to send emails while on a call???