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The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 offers world-roaming capacities as well as Bluetooth, GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The smartphone offers a great design that mixes a sharp display and an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard in a reasonably compact size.

The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 looks like the lovechild of the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the RIM BlackBerry Bold, inheriting some of the finest characteristics of the 2 smartphones. Vis size, the Tour is more like the Curve 8900, though slightly bigger and heavier at 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches in width by 0.6 in. thick and 4.5 oz.. ( The Curve comes in at 4.2 inches tall by 2.3 inches in width by 0.5 inch thick and weighs 3.8 oz. ) Still, the device is far more pocketable than the Bold and the BlackBerry 8830. And , the additional weight gives the phone a satisfyingly solid feel, and the back of the phone also has a partial soft-touch finish for additional sturdiness.

Other features of the BlackBerry Tour’s design include lock and mute buttons on top of the device. Additionally to the aforementioned convenience key, there is a volume rocker, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Micro-USB port on the right. Ultimately , the camera and flash are found on back, while behind the battery cover, you will find the SIM card and microSD enlargement slots.

Verizon packages the RIM BlackBerry Tour with a ton of accessories, including a travel charger, three world adapters, a USB wire, a stereo headset, a 2GB microSD card, a SIM card, a swivel holster, a Worldwide Support Kit, a software CD, and reference material.

As the replacement to the RIM BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, the RIM BlackBerry Tour offers dual-mode functionality ( supporting dual-band CDMA and quad-band GSM networks ) for world wandering capacities and ships with a SIM card. With this capacity, the phone switches mechanically between CDMA and GSM networks to offer continued world roaming–all while keeping the same phone number. A network domestically. In all, you will get voice coverage in 220 countries and information coverage ( email and Net ) in 175 states.