Verizon Wireless CEO confirms BlackBerry Tour is coming soon
Speaking at a recent Barclays Capital conference in NYC, Verizon Wireless president and CEO Lowell McAdam discussed Verizon’s upcoming handset portfolio, again. Without revealing any release dates and sticking to his “six month” time frame, McAdam said:
You will see devices like the Palm Pre and the Cousin on our network from Palm. You will see a second-generation Storm. You will see a new device we call the Tour from BlackBerry as well. That is an upscale of any other QWERTY-based devices that we have from BlackBerry today. You’ll see Motorola back into our portfolio. We feel very good about the progress that the Motorola team has made. And, yes, you’re going to see Android devices as well.
Most of this is the same old information that McAdams has been spouting about Verizon’s upcoming handsets for the last month. We already knew about the Palm Pre rumor which Verizon and Sprint have been batting about like a badminton shuttlecock. The Storm 2 has been mentioned both by RIM and Verizon, and Android has gotten a mention or two as well. The Motorola lineup is presumably initiated by the Rival which hit Verizon just after this conference. Last but not least, we have the official public acknowledgment of the Tour by a Verizon executive. Now if we can just get him to slip a release date or two — especially one that starts with tuh, tuh, T-O-U-R and ends with July…
I love how Verizon never drops any hype or alludes to anything about HTC devices. They come out completely under the radar, and it takes sites like this and 100 others to find out any info about things like the snap or TP2. Maybe if they hyped them up a little more, they might sell a few more. I would think their markup on an HTC device would be slighty higher than on a BB or Palm, but I could be wrong.
@ fresh2death618
Real Handsets? Jea the carrier with atrocious service & a carrier that is struggling jea ok. so you shut your fucking mouth asswhipe. you dont know what you talking about. Your one of those damn iphone fanboys.
@ fresh2death618
come to Verizon where the grown-ups are not silly toys that other carriers have fagot.
@ Leindurstit
I would gladly pay Verizon the extra $20 or $25 in my area to actually have service.
Who cares… the i i i i i iPhone 3GS comes out next week!!
Wonder what Moto has cookin?
That tour looks like every single other thing that RIM releases and when they do try something different is a hunk of garbage like the Storm, I don’t know what all the fuss is about?
@ all of you
I love this. lol Doesn’t matter how old you are, everyone acts like a retarded 9 year old on the internet.
I’m not retarded!! Mom says I’m just special.
I think RIM should change the Blackberry name to DINGLEBERRY, since all they release is the same SHIT over and OVER and OVER and OVER.
You truely are a TOOL if you get excited over a re-cased 8830.
I won’t spoil this completely, but I know first hand that other CDMA carriers are about to launch the Tour within a time line very very close to that of VZW.
They can’t let the big guys in red have all the fun!
@ Da KiLLa
Ta ta ta ta TOUR!
lol what a bitch
@ Stang68 i agree you are all retards….BITCH…hahah ahahah ahahahhaa
@ Stang68,
I think spelling and grammar on BGR have reached a new low! It’s getting harder and harder to read and decipher these juvenile and uninformed ‘posts/rants.’
- CB
Why is he mentioning the “pre” be4 the Tour, does it mean the its in order, pre first, and then the tour, then it isn’t so exciting, actually.
@stang68 i take back what i said to you above. YES, the TOUR is a big deal.
HAHAHAAHA. people are getting angry and cussing each other out over a phone. this is hilarious.
The Tour will be a much needed addition to the VZ lineup. The Curve is old and the Storm, well, didn’t even think it was an upgrade over my Curve.
THIS PHONE IS GONNA BE A PIECE OF SHIT
AND FUCK ALL YOU STUTTERING TUH TUH TOUR FAGS!
HAHAHA
@PATTY hahaha ^^^
@ fresh2death618 and storm2richie
just knock it off, if you keep mouthing off on each other and you both should not get BB at all. this is not world war 3 in here and everyone here are talking about BB tour period.
Okay people, let’s all chill. It’s hard to believe we’re all getting so worked up over a BlackBerry model that RIM hasn’t even announced yet! This should sort itself out by mid JULY unless there is something seriously wrong with the OS.
Am so looking forward to the BB Tour being released.
- CB
lmaoooo @ patty
I think it sucks that VZW is going to get the Pre. Sprint finally has something great and they can’t put an exclusivity like the other carriers and their flagship phones. How else do they expect to recover the lost subs? C’mon Hesse, fight for the Pre…lol
Where’s the tom selleck phone?
@ Jynx
Sprint in my opinion should sell itself to metro PCS or something. If they cant pull a exclusivity on the Pre what will it mean for other devices on the horizon? Sprint can not compete with Verizon & at&t. Give it up Hesse, not only were your commercials annoying but Sprint is a failure.