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Manufacturer: BlackBerry Part number: Tour 9630
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- With a winning design and fast performance, the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 is one of Verizon Wireless' top smartphones for both business users and messaging fanatics.
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CNET editors' review
BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon Wireless) price range: $74.99 - $119.00
- Reviewed by: Bonnie Cha
- Reviewed on: 07/02/2009
The good: The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 offers world-roaming capabilities as well as Bluetooth, GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The smartphone offers a great design that combines a sharp display and an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard in a fairly compact size.
The bad: The smartphone lacks Wi-Fi. The Web browser falls short of the competition, and there's a bit of shutter lag on the camera. You can't save applications to a media card.
The bottom line: With a winning design and fast performance, the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 is one of Verizon Wireless' top smartphones for both business users and messaging fanatics.
User reviews
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Insufficient App Storage
by lionelhutz on July 14, 2009
Pros: Global capabilities on a Verizon phone, screen, battery life, performance, size, call quality, email performance is perfect
Cons: Still can't save applications to media card, and internal app storage is limited, no wi-fi
Summary: This is a great device that is darn near perfect, but with one serious flaw that has afflicted Blackberry's since the introduction of third party applications....
If you have ...Summary: This is a great device that is darn near perfect, but with one serious flaw that has afflicted Blackberry's since the introduction of third party applications....
Here is my update. After having this device for a week I wish I could improve the rating I gave. Yes, the lack of app storage is a major flaw, but this is bar-none the best Blackberry ever made and the best email device for power users on the market - PERIOD. The iPhone is a better toy, but nobody does reliable, corporate-grade email better than this BlackBerry.
If you have a 32gb iPhone, you can download 32gb worth of applications if you want. For some reason on the BlackBerry they partition up the storage and don't allow you to store a high volume of app's - even on a media card. The result is a very limited ability to download applications from BlackBerry App World. This takes what is otherwise a darn-near-perfect device and turns it into something that feels unnecessarily constrained. Blackberry should know that they are competing against the iPhone, and the App store is arguably the biggest driver to IPhone's business. BlackBerry released their version, called App World, which is growing in its usefulness everyday. However, when you can only download 4 or 5 applications to your device, you suddenly miss the virtually limitless application abilities on the iPhone.
The BlackBerry Tour works on a better network (Verizon), using a far superior email platform to iPhone's activesync, has global capabilities including the option to have unlimited global data roaming for a fixed rate, which you cannot do with an iPhone. You also get to enjoy using a network that is not oversubscribed, such as is the case with AT&T thanks to millions of iPhones added to the network virtually overnight.
Reliability is rock solid. Battery life is great. It doesn't have wi-fi, but I really don't think you need it with Verizon's 3G speed.
I was going to give this thing 5 stars, but the continued inability to store a reasonable number of applications seems downright foolish and inexcusable. Blackberry's product development team needs to wake up and update the OS so we can install applications on a media card. Do that and you have a 5 star device with the Blackberry Tour.
Oh yea, and it doesn't have a Touchscreen - HALLELUJAH!
Updated on Jul 16, 20091 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great device, only downfall is <24 hour battery life.
by ouchapole on July 14, 2009
Pros: Great phone! Many new smartphones forget about actual CALLS! This phone is very easy to hear and be heard and the speakerphone is plenty loud. The BB App store keeps improving, the new OS is great, and everything is VERY fast!
Cons: No wifi, battery lasts less than 24 hours during normal use (web browsing, playing games, frequent texting, email, etc).
Summary: Great phone, VERY functional and practical for business and connectivity while remaining fun and entertaining. I very much enjoy this product and it is beginning to make my laptop obsolete. ...
Summary: Great phone, VERY functional and practical for business and connectivity while remaining fun and entertaining. I very much enjoy this product and it is beginning to make my laptop obsolete. The apps and customization make it much more than just a business phone. And the social networking apps along with texting, email support, and BBM make this a very good phone for people of any age or social group. Highly recommend!
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Best Blackberry choice on Verizon :)
by aveltre on July 13, 2009
Pros: Great screen resolution, nice keyboard, nice response time.
Cons: No Wi-Fi, can't save apps to memory card.
Summary: I just left my Curve 8900 w/T-Mobile and went to Verizon a few weeks ago due to coverage issues. I first went with a Blackberry Storm on Verizon and ...
Summary: I just left my Curve 8900 w/T-Mobile and went to Verizon a few weeks ago due to coverage issues. I first went with a Blackberry Storm on Verizon and hated it for so many reasons. Definitely not the phone for a power messaging gal. I was able to exchange my Storm for the Tour yesterday, and am so happy I did. The Tour has many of the features I really missed from my Curve 8900.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Trackball Torture!! On my 2nd tour in 2 months!
by KingWolf88 on November 14, 2009
Pros: Great screen resolution, Keypad is solid and lets face it no other smart phone can touch B-Berry for email and Calendar sync...
Cons: Trackball, Trackball, Trackball, and trackball! Its the center point of the dang phone you would think they would at least get that right!!
Summary: I switched to Verizon because my company switched, I was perfectly happy with my AT&T Bold... so to throw pity my way my company let me upgrade to ...
Summary: I switched to Verizon because my company switched, I was perfectly happy with my AT&T Bold... so to throw pity my way my company let me upgrade to the Tour while all the other pee-ons at my company had to slum it with the curve..."Haaaaa!!!" I thought to myself as I un-boxed what I thought was simply a smaller, more streamlined "Bold"I was a fool!!! This device is No BOLD! They should call it the Blackberry "Booooo!" it's trackball is possessed! it jumps over apps, zips over text, you roll right it rolls left, sometimes it wont move at all! Aargh! The phone resets itself twice a day, the bluetooth stays connected even after you end the call..WORTHLESS!! It looks as though the status quo for Verizon is to always get it right the second time around so skip the "tour" and wait for "tour 2" Im going to a Storm 2...at least after a year all the bugs should be gone and there is no trackball for them to ruin!!
2 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Virtually Unusable Blackberry
by socalkidintx on November 24, 2009
Pros: Form factor
Screen
CameraCons: Very poor battery life
Very poor reception
Very poor voice quality
Very poor web surfing
Very slow processor
Very poor email synch timeSummary: First, I have been a smartphone user since the original flip phone Treo, moving to various Palm devices, several iterations of the Blackberry Curve. This Tour is the worst smartphone ...
Summary: First, I have been a smartphone user since the original flip phone Treo, moving to various Palm devices, several iterations of the Blackberry Curve. This Tour is the worst smartphone device I have owned - it is virtually unusable for me. I am a power user, constantly on internet, texting, calling, etc. My Blackberry Curve handled this workload fine. The Tour struggles - voice quality is very poor, listeners struggle to understand what I'm saying. LIkewise, reception is very poor, and I struggle to understand what the other person is saying. I have many dead areas in Verizon reception that I am trying to have them resolve (and I live in a major city, San Antonio). The texting has about a 15 second delay from when you push enter to send - how annoying is that???? And when I receive a text that someone in my directory has sent me an email, it takes 15-20 minutes for that email to actually arrive in my inbox so that I can respond to it. Ridiculous!!!!!!!! Web surfing is an absolute pain, taking much longer than AT&T's web experience. Some sites (eg ESPN on weekends) won't even come up. And battery life is MUCH less than the Curve, which could last for days it seemed, the Tour is lucky to make it through the day. I would highly recommend someone looking at this device go with the AT&T Bold 9700, which I am in the process of switching to. It seems many of these faults have been corrected in the Bold 9700, in reading the reviews from Engadget, Boy Genius Report, CNET, Crackberry, etc.
1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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9630 Tour Locks up Constantly
by MrBrownston on October 13, 2009
Pros: Decent browser compared to the Curve, 90% of websites are better, 10% are nearly impossible to read, high resolution display.
Cons: This phone won't go an entire day without locking up, battery life is way shorter--even with no new apps installed,
Summary: Essentially, whenever you have an incoming call, text, email and are using any audio or video player, it locks up. It does this to my camera, video, internet radio (slacker &#...
Summary: Essentially, whenever you have an incoming call, text, email and are using any audio or video player, it locks up. It does this to my camera, video, internet radio (slacker & pandora) and even when I don't get a call..just it searching for a tower.
I have returned one of these already in the first 10 days of ownership and will ultimately switch either phones, or manufacturers entirely. In my 13 years with wireless devices, this is the worst one ever--not because it doesn't have cool features, but because the software platform is not stable.
DO NOT BUY ONE.1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Stay Away (Bad Bluetooth and Terrible Audio)
by foodie02 on October 6, 2009
Pros: I'm on my 3rd Tour and am extremely unsatisfied. While the screen is nice and the body has a sleek design, read the cons....
Cons: INCOMPATIBLE WITH STANDARD BLUETOOTH! While I had no problems with previous phones, callers can not hear me when I use Bluetooth.
Battery life is very short.
Poor audio quality on regular calls.
SMALL keyboard.Summary: Stay away. Wait for the next phone. Wish I had.
Summary: Stay away. Wait for the next phone. Wish I had.
1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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TOUR.... BLOWS VERY WELL!
by ksimeon on October 1, 2009
Pros: Very nice looking screen and the physical keyboard is nice
Cons: Poor Sound Quality. Friends ask if I'm eating my phone. Trackball sticks & you can't navigate the screen. Battery life isn't very good as well as the os freezes. Reboot time is too long being that you have to reboot so often.
Summary: Don't waste your time with this phone. It was indeed a huge disappointment. I decided to go back to my old 8830 with no camera until VZW comes out ...
Summary: Don't waste your time with this phone. It was indeed a huge disappointment. I decided to go back to my old 8830 with no camera until VZW comes out with something more solid. I had the Iphone for a ver short time and liked it but unfortunately it was on ATT's service which was awful. The Iphone has its issues too but the tour was a huge disappointment. I truly don't understand RIM's Quality assurance. For them to release the Tour and the Storm and the phones to have so many issues really shows how terrible their quality control is. They really need to get it together and produce a solid phone that doesn't delete messages and fail miserably when really put to use.
1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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You'll be sorry.
by cyfan2000 on September 28, 2009
Pros: Great screen. I like the built-in GPS for use with Google Maps.
Cons: Battery life is horrible. Stupid trackball in the middle means I move my cursor by accident when typing. Blutooth is useless. Speakerphone is useless. People say I'm muffled when on handset. It takes 11 minutes to reboot. ELEVEN!
Summary: I already sent back one Tour and got a second that's almost as bad. I'm sending that back too because I can't take that people can't ...
Summary: I already sent back one Tour and got a second that's almost as bad. I'm sending that back too because I can't take that people can't hear me. Bberry produced a lemon. Go with ANYTHING else in the bberry lineup. Not this one.
1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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I've given up...
by adriantevan on August 21, 2009
Pros: Beautiful display, camera takes good pictures, nice looking device
Cons: Others I called complained of muffled sounding call quality, screen is incredibly sensitive, trackball malfunctioned, loose battery door, LONG reboot time, poor charging port placement
Summary: Hi Everyone,
I'm officially giving up on the Tour. I've gone through multiple units each have had issues including faulty trackball (no horizontal movement), poor reception/muffled sounds ...Summary: Hi Everyone,
I'm officially giving up on the Tour. I've gone through multiple units each have had issues including faulty trackball (no horizontal movement), poor reception/muffled sounds clarity, and even not being able to charge. I returned them all and am happy to be back on my 8830. Maybe I'll try again in a few months, but for a device that has a full retail of close to $500, these issues shouldn't be happening. I encourage you not to settle or "feel bad" about getting a refund or exchange. How will RIM ever learn otherwise?
It's your money, your going to be stuck with this device for the next 2 years, get what you want.
http://forums.crackberry.com/f141/tour-number-five-bs-292732/1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: BlackBerry
- Part number: Tour 9630
- Description: Connect, browse, stream, download and more on global networks with 3G reliability. The BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone helps you stay in touch from almost anywhere in the world. A full-featured global smartphone including voice dialing, conference calling and a built-in speakerphone, it can travel along with you to most of the world on 3G networks. Going out with your BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone doesn't mean leaving your entertainment behind. With 256 MB of on-board memory and a built-in media player to play your songs and videos, you'll be entertained and informed from almost anywhere life takes you. Watch videos while you're on the train, play that energetic song when out for a run, or just share pictures and memories with friends over a cup of coffee. The BlackBerry Tour 9630 features a slim design that smartly goes with you wherever you are. Lightweight and sleek, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 ensures that sending messages, answering a phone call, browsing the web or simply holding it in your hand is a comfortable experience.
General
- Packaged Quantity 1
- Product Type Smartphone
- Form Factor Full keyboard
- Integrated Components GPS receiver,
Digital camera,
Digital player - Width 2.4 in
- Depth 0.6 in
- Height 4.4 in
- Weight 4.6 oz
Cellular
- Technology CDMA2000 1X / GSM / WCDMA (UMTS)
- Band WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 / CDMA2000 1X 1900/800
- Mobile Broadband Generation 3G
- Service Provider Verizon Wireless
- Operating System BlackBerry Handheld Software
- Input Device(s) QWERTY keyboard
- Phone Navigation Buttons Trackball
Messaging & Internet
- Cellular Messaging Services SMS,
MMS - Instant Messaging Services Yahoo! Messenger,
AOL Instant Messenger Service (AIM),
Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger),
Google Talk Communications
- Data Transmission GPRS,
EV-DO,
EDGE - Wireless Interface Bluetooth 2.0
- Communication Features Internet browser,
Mobile Email client Phone Features
- Phone Functions Vibrating alert
Media Player
- Supported Digital Audio Standards MP3,
MIDI Memory
- ROM 256 MB - Flash
- Supported Flash Memory Cards microSDHC,
microSD
Digital Camera
- Sensor Resolution 3.2 megapixels
- Focus Adjustment Automatic
- Digital Zoom 2
- Camera Light Source Flash
- Features Video recording
Navigation System
- GPS Navigation GPS receiver
Display
- Type LCD display
- Technology TFT Transmissive
- Diagonal Size 2.4 in
- Display Resolution 480 x 360 pixels
- Color Depth 16-bit (65000 colors)
Connections
- Connector Type Headset jack
Battery
- Technology Lithium ion
- Capacity 1400 mAh
- Run Time Details Talk - up to 300 min,
Standby - up to 336 hour(s) Miscellaneous
- Included Accessories Power adapter , Power adapter
- Also Included 256 MB
Product series
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BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon Wireless)
Manufacturer: BlackBerry
Specs: Verizon Wireless,
CDMA2000 1X / GSM / WCDMA (UMTS),
Up to 300 min,
With digital camera / digital player,
4.6 oz,
3.2 megapixels,
2.4 in -
BlackBerry Tour 9630 without camera (Verizon Wireless)
Manufacturer: BlackBerry
Specs: Verizon Wireless,
CDMA2000 1X / GSM / WCDMA (UMTS),
Up to 300 min,
4.6 oz,
2.4 in
Manufacturer info
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