Comments on: BlackBerry Tour officially hitting Verizon on July 12th

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:13:47 +0000

Guess I got lucky. I called telesales early yesterday after seeing this on BGR and the rep said its a glitch on the site and she processed my NE2 upgrade to the Tour. We now know it wasn’t a glitch, they just didnt want old customers yet. I can’t prove it actually got processed but when I log into verizon now it no longer shows me eligibile for the NE2 so I guess it took.

By: will

will — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:07:53 +0000

Everyone chill, you can get the phone as an upgrade and they are putting up the page for pre orders for exsiting customers in the next few days I called vz and that’s what the rep told me

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By: toursux

toursux — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:25:55 +0000

tuh tuh tuh tour sux!!!!!

By: jayjay

jayjay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:14:06 +0000

What a load of bullshit, I have held off on buying a phone since I first saw this phone 7 months ago. I have waited very patiently and now I can’t pre order because I’m a loyal customer to verizon?? Verizon is F-ing up big time.

(Ps this is from an itouch and not an iphone)

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By: ur doing it rong

ur doing it rong — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:16:35 +0000

they might have taken it down and are going to make it available to everyone. When I spoke to the rep at 10am she said they had already gotten alot of subscribers unhappy about the pre-order. But maybe they only allowed a limited # of pre-orders.

By: Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:11:55 +0000

Verizon’s website for pre-ordering the tour has crashed and is “unavailable”

By: ur doing it rong

ur doing it rong — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:33:44 +0000

^ is the tour cooch compatible?

By: Swagger

Swagger — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:29:28 +0000

When the Tour comes out all wars will end,money will grow from trees,and cooch will fall from the sky.

By: ur doing it rong

ur doing it rong — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:26:49 +0000

@ Eric

See my post above. The upgrade isn’t available for pre-order. Not even available for current subscribers. It’s for non vzw customers. Totes Shitty to the max brah no homo

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:11:46 +0000

^its not competition if the other brand doesn’t have comparable service. Att is getting ridiculous now. Data speeds have plummeted since the iphone came out. I’m gonna buy a tour on a new verizon line when it comes out just to see how much better vzw is, but I probably won’t switch because of my family plan on att.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:12 +0000

Has anyone been able to do a pre-order upgrade? That does not seem to work for me. It seems like they are just setting up pre-orders for new service.

Very strange.

By: Xsfspd

Xsfspd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:40:56 +0000

So what is the retail price with VZW? If it’s $500 I can pay my cancel fee and get a bold for myself and a curve 8900 for the wife and spend about the same (or wait for the 9020). I may only be 1 year into my 2 year contract but if VZW wants to keep my business there going to sell it for their 1yr contract price not retail or I’ll head over to ATT which has a cheaper monthly plan anyway. Competition is good!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:37:41 +0000

You kidding? If you have time to go to the store do it, I don’t have the time or the desire to so.
I think the policy is fkd up.

By: warhed

warhed — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:27:28 +0000

if your not an new customer your cant pre-order? new deal… the phone isnt going anywhere! didnt att&apple pull the same crap!? please stop with the bitching… (including the bb haters- go post somewhere else!)

By: Greg Kops

Greg Kops — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:54 +0000

new every two upgrade will be applied to tour if you go to retail store on the 12th. I was told it will be $149.99 if you do it at the retail store.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:05:15 +0000

I have a garden level (basement) apartment in Boston. Verizon I have full bars. My friends with AT&T get nothing, even texts and voicemails can’t sneak through.

This is why people are pumped.

By: linnyd

linnyd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:32 +0000

everyone should call verizon centers and complain and threaten to switch over to sprint or another carrier..if they get enough complaints then they will have 2 let pre existing customers upgrade

By: gas walla

gas walla — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:43:30 +0000

bastards are charging $3/month for visual voicemail

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:38:47 +0000

I was just told by CS that the phone is not available for upgrade customers. They are making a serious mistake there and I may bolt.

By: Jawsnj

Jawsnj — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:24:49 +0000

VZW has f’in dropped the ball on this one…

I have been with them for over 12 yrs with the now wifes line (i started when it was Bell Mobile) and 10 years on my phone (20 person biz account)…

And they will only let NEW subscribers pre-order…What a bunch of bullshit…

Not saying i wont be in line like a tool on the 12th, but this is still bullshit…

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:43:11 +0000

Those of you who don’t get why people want a new VZW BB must be among the fortunate who live someplace where ATT/T-Mobile/Sprint don’t suck.

For places like the SF Bay Area, VZW is night and day better in much of the region than any of the others, and I’ve tried them all. I carry an ATT Curve and a VZW 8830, and coverage is vastly better on VZW all over the area.

Plus, for those of you who think ATT has great coverage, try taking your phone internationally, and you’ll see how the same phone gets much better sound quality/fewer dropped calls on Vodafone/Orange/Telstra, etc., than ATT.

Would I prefer to have wifi, etc., yup, but more importantly I have to have a phone that actually works. If I didn’t care, I’d get an iPhone.

Greg

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:13:36 +0000

@ your doin it wrong

the only way to do it is to get the email addreses of the big shot execs there and get them to feel what a loyal VZ customer has to go through just because he wants decent service, and it almost looks like their enjoying it.

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:08:39 +0000

^ the only reason they keep their 77 mill is because of the i-phone, it offsets the losses of reg (voice) subscribers. proof? the last quarter they activated 1.3 mill i-phones, and added 1+ mill customers. you get the drift here?

By: ur doing it rong

ur doing it rong — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:06:52 +0000

pre -order not available for current vzw customers

here’s a copy of my Live Online Customer Service response:

You: I have a blackberry and would like to pre-order the tour

You: but it wont go through

You: either i get to the end and it asks me to transfer/new phone number from other provider

You: or if i go to My Verizon and do upgrade my phone it isn’t listed as a choice

Cassandra: Are you a new customer?

You: no

Cassandra: You can not order the new phone as a upgrade at this time.

You: but there is a pre-order

You: available

You: the pre-order is only for Non-Verizon customers?

Cassandra: Correct.

You: wow

You: thats pretty shitty

You: im a custoemr almost 10 years

You: havent renewed my contract

You: could have gotten an iphone

You: have been waiting for this

You: thing

Cassandra: I am sorry about that.

You: and now ur going to give non customers first shot

You: i could get a palm pre on sprint

Cassandra: I am sorry, that is how it is set up at this time, I am not aware if it will be changed it just came online today.

You: u should let them know

Cassandra: They are aware.

You: people are gonna be pissed. all the cell phone nerd blogs are gonna pick this up.

You: i’m gonna post this on boygenius

You: i should have better things to do, but whatever

Cassandra: I understand. It is rather silly if I may say so myself. You are not the only one who has these feelings.

You: yeah

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:59:14 +0000

The whole GPS issue is none-sense. Go out and buy yourself a garmin, navigon GPS and save yourself staining your eyes zooming in on a tiny screen while driving. The cheapest of the above models is 100x better then the best on the best smart phone. So, steven, good luck with your buffering GPS and dropped calls, and by the time I’m finish writing here the subscriber gap of VZ/ATT will be 90 mill vs. 77 mill, thanks to the i phone 3GS.

@ Patrick
Well, never mind. Why bother? All I’m going to get back is another fagget joke.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:41:10 +0000

@Mike –

That is exactly what a rep told me today as well; existing customers, even those with New Every Two discounts available, cannot preorder the phone on their existing plans. Upgrades are only available to existing customers on the street date.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:28:55 +0000

I am a Verizon Wireless customer and if you go to the website to upgrade your phone, it isn’t even listed as an option. Only new customers can pre-order this phone. I called Verizon to ask them, and they kept me on hold for 20 minutes, and finally came back to me and told me that existing customers can upgrade to the phone on July 12. What a load of bull.

By: Its All The Same Crap

Its All The Same Crap — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:24:56 +0000

Those who say, “So what if it doesn’t have wi-fi?”… so no phone you have now has wi-fi? I know we all got 3G phones, but tell me none of you EVER jump on wi-fi when the opportunity presents itself. I don’t care what network you’re on, if you need to look something up and there’s wi-fi around, you’re jumping on wi-fi cause its FASTER.

But I get it though for the VZW BB fanboys… its exciting. The only reason people are talking some crap is because of all the dumb Tou-tou-tou posts (what is that stutter anyway? The time it takes to do a search on 3G vs Wi-fi??).

Shoot man… I HATE the iPhone and Sidekick and even those toys have wi-fi!!!

By: codemaker

codemaker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:57:09 +0000

@Greg Kops

The tour does support GPS and will come with blackberry maps. For turn by turn navigation, you will have to pay $10 a month for VZ navigator (AFAIK). The sprint version of the tour will come with Sprint Navigation at no extra charge with the simply everything and everything data plans.

By: Minnesotaman

Minnesotaman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:35:16 +0000

Reasons tour is a nice upgrade for blackberry users:

(much) Higher resolution screen.
Faster processor
More Memory
Better Camera
Rev-a 3G instead of Rev-0
Updated OS

I know blackberry users tend to get a little excited, but this is a pretty big upgrade, especially from the 8800 series. Think about the iphone 3GS. Kind of the same deal right? Good upgrades, but not a game changer. And people were camping OUTSIDE for that one! So please everyone, relax.