What are your thoughts on the BB Tour?

[boomhower]

Anyone have any thoughts on the upcoming Tour? I currently have a Diamond on Sprint and am due for renewal. I had been eyeing the Pre but all the issues with the screen and more importantly the lack of tethering has me eying the Tour really hard. I will miss wifi but other than that it looks like a winner. Anything Windows Mobile is out of the question. After several years I am washing my hands of that mess.

 

[bucwylde23]

i'll be picking one up as soon as I can get it. I've had an 8830, a storm and now a curve. Curve has been the best but I'm really looking forward to the Tour.

The ability to actually use the GPS for other apps besides BB Maps will be a huge plus for me. I love the curve but it definitely lags a bit at times so the upgraded hardware on the Tour will be great.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Amazingly I haven't had hands-on with this device yet. Should do next week, so I'll post some impressions.

 

[HopJokey]

I just got a Curve four months ago and I am seriously thinking about upgrading to the Tour when it is released. Rev A. EVDO and way greater GPS usage are the two main things I want.

And I agree with Chris that the Curve does lag a bit at points (the hybrid OS 5.0/4.6 should help a lot though I've heard).

 

[boomhower]

Originally posted by: chrisg22
i'll be picking one up as soon as I can get it. I've had an 8830, a storm and now a curve. Curve has been the best but I'm really looking forward to the Tour.

The ability to actually use the GPS for other apps besides BB Maps will be a huge plus for me. I love the curve but it definitely lags a bit at times so the upgraded hardware on the Tour will be great.

Is that a hardware thing or a Verizon locking their phone down thing?

 

[HopJokey]

Originally posted by: boomhower

Originally posted by: chrisg22
i'll be picking one up as soon as I can get it. I've had an 8830, a storm and now a curve. Curve has been the best but I'm really looking forward to the Tour.

The ability to actually use the GPS for other apps besides BB Maps will be a huge plus for me. I love the curve but it definitely lags a bit at times so the upgraded hardware on the Tour will be great.

Is that a hardware thing or a Verizon locking their phone down thing?

It's a Verizon thing, the Sprint version of the same phones have unlocked GPS's.

For the Tour it will be unlocked on both Sprint and Verizon it seems.

 

[bucwylde23]

Yea the Tour should be the same as the Storm, which has a fully unlocked GPS.

 

[boomhower]

It will be released July 12th on Verizon for $199AR. Link Come on Sprint get with the program!

 

[shortylickens]

I hadnt used a Blackberry until recently. Yesterday I got my mom a Curve for her birthday. Spent all day setting it up and playing with it before I gave it to her. Have to admit I was very impressed. Am not happy with my Voyager and after doing all this research for the Blackberrys I think I may be a new BB user this November.
For myself I was thinking of the Bold or the Curve 8900, but all the talk of the Tour lately has gotten me excited for that.

I like pretty much everything it has, but if I were to get it I'd wait until I could find a super-duper extended battery. As much as I liked the Curve I would certainly wanna play with the Tour all day long. Also, it would need to be unlocked and free from any Verizon UI changes. They have a tendancy to mess up the interface of almost all their phones.

 

[HopJokey]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I hadnt used a Blackberry until recently. Yesterday I got my mom a Curve for her birthday. Spent all day setting it up and playing with it before I gave it to her. Have to admit I was very impressed. Am not happy with my Voyager and after doing all this research for the Blackberrys I think I may be a new BB user this November.
For myself I was thinking of the Bold or the Curve 8900, but all the talk of the Tour lately has gotten me excited for that.

I like pretty much everything it has, but if I were to get it I'd wait until I could find a super-duper extended battery. As much as I liked the Curve I would certainly wanna play with the Tour all day long. Also, it would need to be unlocked and free from any Verizon UI changes. They have a tendancy to mess up the interface of almost all their phones.

On Verizon the "UI" isn't really locked on BlackBerries. You can load any OS you want and theme you want. The only thing that is really locked on the previous Verizon BB's (before the storm) is the GPS.

The only downside with the Tour is no Wifi which reportedly all BB's after the Tour will have (like the Storm 2 due out in November). Other than that the Tour is pretty awesome. OS 5.0 due later this year should make it even better. If you like the Bold or Curve 8900 it's like both of them put together on CDMA networks.

Seidio makes great extended batteries and no doubt will have one available for the Tour.

 

[shortylickens]

Then I wont be getting a tour. 3G is nice and all, but wifi is much better. College has wifi all over the place and so do many of mt favorite hangouts.
Come to think of it, UMA is awefully nice and since t-mobile only offers the Curve 8900, I guess I know what my choice is.

 

[HopJokey]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Then I wont be getting a tour. 3G is nice and all, but wifi is much better. College has wifi all over the place and so do many of mt favorite hangouts.
Come to think of it, UMA is awefully nice and since t-mobile only offers the Curve 8900, I guess I know what my choice is.

Yea go with that. But by November there may be a 3G TMO BB available that supports UMA as well.

 

[uli2000]

Originally posted by: HopJokey

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I hadnt used a Blackberry until recently. Yesterday I got my mom a Curve for her birthday. Spent all day setting it up and playing with it before I gave it to her. Have to admit I was very impressed. Am not happy with my Voyager and after doing all this research for the Blackberrys I think I may be a new BB user this November.
For myself I was thinking of the Bold or the Curve 8900, but all the talk of the Tour lately has gotten me excited for that.

I like pretty much everything it has, but if I were to get it I'd wait until I could find a super-duper extended battery. As much as I liked the Curve I would certainly wanna play with the Tour all day long. Also, it would need to be unlocked and free from any Verizon UI changes. They have a tendancy to mess up the interface of almost all their phones.

On Verizon the "UI" isn't really locked on BlackBerries. You can load any OS you want and theme you want. The only thing that is really locked on the previous Verizon BB's (before the storm) is the GPS.

The only downside with the Tour is no Wifi which reportedly all BB's after the Tour will have (like the Storm 2 due out in November). Other than that the Tour is pretty awesome. OS 5.0 due later this year should make it even better. If you like the Bold or Curve 8900 it's like both of them put together on CDMA networks.

Seidio makes great extended batteries and no doubt will have one available for the Tour.

The Tour is the phone that is getting me to drop WM for good (a long time comming now). From what Ive been reading on Crackberry, the testing units have had wifi, but the carriers are asking for it to be disabled due to battery life issues. IDK if the final production units will have the same chipset w/ the wifi disabled (I imagine they do, they would have to resubmit to the fcc for testing if they changed it), but maybe down the road with enough customer pressure, they will unlock the wifi.

 

[HopJokey]

Originally posted by: uli2000

The Tour is the phone that is getting me to drop WM for good (a long time comming now). From what Ive been reading on Crackberry, the testing units have had wifi, but the carriers are asking for it to be disabled due to battery life issues. IDK if the final production units will have the same chipset w/ the wifi disabled (I imagine they do, they would have to resubmit to the fcc for testing if they changed it), but maybe down the road with enough customer pressure, they will unlock the wifi.

I read that as well on CB. I believe it is a business decision to not have Wifi. The battery issue is hogwash to me because there are plenty of other CDMA phones that have Wifi.

That would be awesome if you could "unlock" the Wifi feature. Sadly I think the test units physically have the chipset and the production units physically do not thus you cannot unlock that feature through software.

 

[boomhower]

Originally posted by: HopJokey

Originally posted by: uli2000



I read that as well on CB. I believe it is a business decision to not have Wifi. The battery issue is hogwash to me because there are plenty of other CDMA phones that have Wifi.

That doesn't make any sense as they all are requiring a data pack now. Verizon has done so for a while and I imagine Sprint will do the Tour like the did the Pre and require an everything plan. If anything having wifi would ease the load on their networks. So I would be inclined to agree and think it is related to the battery life. Personally I would prefer that they leave it in there and let me decide if it takes to much battery. That said, my Diamond has wifi and I have never used it other than just playing. The EVDO coverage is more than sufficient in my area and it is far from urban, I live in relatively rural NC.