PHOTOS: BlackBerry Tour mobile phone

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PHOTOS: BlackBerry Tour mobile phone

25 June 2009 16:32 GMT / By Stuart Miles

RIM has announced that it will be creating yet another smartphone model, this time the BlackBerry Tour that sits in between the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and Bold handsets, and that's right, Pocket-lint was on hand when the new phone came to New York for the evening.

The new handset, which will be available on Verizon and Sprint to begin with in the US, will sport the same key design as the Blackberry Bold albeit slightly smaller, come with the companies brightest screen to date and feature all the usual bells and whistles you come to expect from the company's smartphones.

Considerably wider than the Curve 8900, the new model will come in two colours.

Before you get excited about a possible "Wasabi green" version, the colour options range between black with a titanium coloured bezel on Verizon to black with a silver bezel on Sprint. Exciting.

The new handset is expected out later this year. Currently no UK operator has announced that it will be stocking the handset in the UK.

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Comments

  • Is it me or is Verizon's version bigger than Sprint's? Posted by Cere, USA
  • They are the same size - but it might be the angle - the last two images in the collection are of the Curve 8900 - on the right - against the Tour. In that case, the Tour is wider than the Curve 8900 Posted by stuartmiles, United Kingdom
  • Thanks a lot, Stuart. Posted by Cere, USA
  • So. . . how does one get his hands on these but NO ONE has a release date yet? Any reason they haven't announced it yet? Its already on the rebate sheets, so there is a deadline . . . . Posted by Pablo, USA Baby
  • July 13 2009 is the release date. Posted by TJ, United States
  • Will 7/13 be the first date that you can pre-order online. or the day in the stores? Posted by Damien, USA
  • Here is the deal on the pics above. They look differenst because the Sprint phone is a Curve and not the Tour. The difference is not the angle in this case but you can actually see that the Sprint phone is a little smaller and another tale tale giveaway is the key pad. Look closely and you can see the actual spacing on the letters on the Sprint. The Tour has a slightly different keypad, more along the lines of the wider Bold. Posted by Will, USA
  • Correction on my part. Upon further review, the last two images are the Curve from Sprint and the Tour from Verizon. Look at the fat silver bezel on the Curve in the last to pics. The other pics are of the Tour. Posted by Will, USA
  • It's a TMobile curve, Myfaves icon Posted by Hump, use
  • the last few pics are from the curve...but the first few are definitely 2 tours in different colors...check it again... Posted by Lil Wayne, USA
  • I agree it is a T-Mobile Curve since it does say T-Mobile at the top. The rest are of the two Tour versions. Posted by Bun, USA
  • Will...that is because you are looking at the curve 8900. notice there is no sprint logo on the bottom... Posted by Palak Desai, USA
  • Can I assume that it is not a touch screen model? If not, they're missing out!! Posted by Eirian Williams, UK

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