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…
@ 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.
bbkernel, where you been? This is getting interesting because now “devices like Pre” has become “device like the Pre and Palm cousin” and no reference as to when anymore. I do think they will get the Pre, it’ll be super late like the rest of thier Palm and HTC releases. Personally I say when the device like the Pre hits vzw RIM should bring the Storms to Sprint
@ Don Louie Cantone
the storm to Sprint? no way Don, if they get it it’ll be years from now.
cool beans, a CDMA Bold in a Curve body with no wifi
This article (and its source…and all the similar articles based off the source!) should simply be pulled completely as if it never existed.
It gives BGR a bad (worse?) name to publish crap based off of crap.
The news is WEEKS old, there is NOTHING new, the source article INCORRECTLY suggests there are new words being spoken. Go ahead, google the quotes – GEEZ!
Just about everything that could be is wrong with this article.
Why does it exist?
Why?
@ Guantlet Down
B/c it gives us something to fight about! GOD! YOU’RE SO FUCKING STUPID1 YOU PUNK ASS CUNT BITCH!
YOU PROBABLY HATE THE TOUR TOO, JUST LIKE ALL THESE IPHONES FAGGOTTS IN HERE!!!1!!!1!
MOM! MEATLOAF! FUCK!
LOL i bet they are iphone fagots. Why are people bashing the Tour?.
@ storm 2 richie
Is it richie or ST 2 richie?
Anyway, don’t even bother to answer these trolls. People like to defend their turf no matter what, and logic won’t do anything.
Let’s stick to the hymn Tuh tuh tou Tour!
^^Nice company you keep and support, BGR. Congrats and welcome to the bottom of the barrel.
^verizon CEO says the Tour is “above all BLACKBERRY’s that are out to date! ” Assuming he dosent lie, this will be an improved 1 over the prv versions. And let’s wait n see
@ JoeTour
its me richie just added storm2 on it lol. whats up bro. Jea i wont even bother listening to these douches.
^^Nice company you keep and protect, BGR. Congrats and welcome to the bottom of the barrel!
Did anyone noptice there was no reference to the Blackberry Atlas (Tour + WiFi). What’s the latest word on the Atlas?
Lmao vzw gets one bb now they have the supreme phone selection.. Lets not forget every vzw dumb phone is crippled and cant run somthing as simple as google maps or opera mini.. And the small number of smartphones they get are crippled as well.. Just going off recent memory omnia, touch pro, and storm had significant usage problems when compared to similar phones running the same os. But the Tuh – Tuh – Tour will change all that huh. It will make vzw cost less too. Sprint is getting the tour as well, so calm down. If VZW has better coverage in your hood cool. But Sprint is just as good and probably better in major metro areas. So unless you live in the sticks or crave crippled phones shut the hell up with this VZW kills Sprint crap. If Sprint raped all of its customers they would have more money. Yea sprint is paying dearly for that Iden crap, so when you say Sprint is dying, losing subs, bleeding money, or whatever think Iden not CDMA.
Same CRAP over and over and over and over.
Hey RimJOB, why not revamp your whole OS instead of putting new clothes on the same turds?
Reality check, I’m sure, one that your brain is in dire need of.
^i take that back. Why do I even bother.
^Not going toe to toe with a frenchman, CHEQUE that!
Don Louie Cantone,
If I see a Phone that walks like a Pre, swims like a Pre and quacks like a Pre, I call that Phone a Pre.
joefag you are pointing to yourself LOL!
t t tuh tuh tour?
stuttering idiots
Guy at the Verizon store today said Tour isn’t due out till Q4 and that they’d have the Pre before they have the Tour :’(
A pre or tour for as I get great service/rates from my carrier.
All the negative posters here?..whats with that?
peace people
You people sound like a bunch of snot nosed little brat kids. You all should go to time out….don’t try me..ill spank
@ John
Q4?!?!?! what happened to july??
I know you are just going based on what you were told, but I feel like the people in the Verizon don’t really know what they’re talking about. I’m still hoping for a July release…
I hope John is making that up, wouldn’t put it past sales persons to make stuff like that up. According to that rep vzw will see a Pre before the Tour somewhere around October-December? That would be good for them if it were true, vzw ought to try to get thier HTC releases in line with the other carriers and when was the Palm for them in the same calendar year as launch?