Still having trouble scoring a BlackBerry Tour from Sprint? The wait is almost over
Following a tumultuous start, it looks like Sprint’s troubles with stocking and delivering BlackBerry Tour units are almost over. A series of three posts from Sprint’s twitter account suggest two shipments from RIM should allow the carrier to catch up with “strong demand”. One shipment apparently arrived this week and a second is scheduled for delivery early next week. Those who still haven’t been able to get their hands on RIM’s latest handset will hopefully accept Sprint’s apologies and sit tight for just a short while longer. We’re still not sure why the Tour was listed as in stock earlier this week when customers received backorder notices immediately after placing orders, but our guess is we’ll never know exactly what went wrong. The bottom line is these two Tour shipments should take care of everyone still waiting to snag a unit.
Sprint has 49M users, some estimates I have seen repeatedly in the forums on crackberry.com say that more than 30% of them are Blackberry users. If 3.5% of the 30% of Sprint users (1.05% of all Sprint users) that are Blackberry users got excited about the Tour and ordered one in the first weekend (more excitement on the Sprint side makes sense since they have gone much longer without a new Blackberry), then Sprint’s Tour demand could have outstripped Verizon’s half a million units.
Got mine today, ordered last Sunday.
VZW loves making up number and rapping them off as truth, wait for actual numbers to come out because there still isn’t an answer for where the 50% Sprint are made on Verizon’s network
I ordered my tour thursday and got it today and have been inseperatible. I had the storm and officially will never go back to touch screens again!
I read some were that 35% of sprint users are palm users also, 35% palm and 30% blackberry that’s crazy.
Blackberry Tour OS Version 4.7.1.40 Verizon Wireless
http://www.blackberry-tour.com/index.php?topic=166.0
Sprint is losing customers at the same rate as AT&T and Verizon are gaining them. Sprint holds on to the data users by practically giving away the service for free. Great deal for customers, but how long can they operate their business doing that?
People are just looking to keep talking down on Sprint b/c they’re vulnerable.
Why wouldn’t it be logical to think, that maybe the reason Sprint didn’t allow pre-orders was to allow for them to get a decent amount in inventory.
Plus, with Sprint having the Pre… Why would people get all excited about the Tour? Sure, there’s gonna be some BB crackberry users, who just want the latest BB; but the Tour isn’t gonna make people on Sprint go crazy trying to get one.
I guess to VZ customers’; the Tour is exciting
VZW is consistently full of shit and hardcore verizon-fangirl
comedy gold.
No WiFi in the Tour, waste of time. We need the Curve 8900.
Looks like Sprint bought one of its customer a VZ Tour and put it in a Sprint branded box. Sad!
http://crackberry.com/sprint-now-shipping-sperizon-tour#comments
This is fake
My question is when will Bestbuy receive the BB tour for Sprint. I’m trying to wait because I hate rebates. Any info is greatly appreciated.