The long awaited and talked-about BlackBerry Tour is available from Verizon and Sprint, today.
For a summary of reviews of the BlackBerry Tour, read our Review of Reviews of the BlackBerry Tour. The BlackBerry Tour was code-named Niagra, and the screen has been called "nothing short of stunning . It is a "World" phone which means you can use it other countries. Initial first impressions and sneak peaks of the BlackBerry Tour were impressive.
To find out the lowest prices we found for the BlackBerry Tour, today, look at the after the continue reading link in this article.
The BlackBerry Tour (Niagara) is cross between the BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Bold with an operating system similar to the BlackBerry Storm. .
The BlackBerry Tour offers push e-mail; messaging (IM, SMS, MMS)
and social networking; a 3.2 megapixel camera with geo-tagging and
video recording; advanced multimedia capabilities; built-in GPS; full
HTML Web browsing; and support for Verizon Wireless' Mobile Broadband
Connect tethering service.
The only shortcoming of first impressions of the BlackBerry Tour was that it did not include Wi-Fi. Recently, Sprint revealed that they would require Wi-Fi on all smartphones and now Verizon has followed suit and there have been reports that future CDMA Verizon smartphones will be required to have Wi-Fi. We also suspect the the other much-awaited BlackBerrry Storm 2 will have Wi-Fi too.
Verizon is selling the BlackBerry Tour for $199 with a contract and mail-in rebate. You can avoid the waiting for the rebate by ordering online using Wireless and Mobile News'Wireless and Mobile News' Instant Phone Rebate Only Available with Online Purchase. with the purchase of a plan.
The cheapest best price we've found so far for the BlackBerry Tour is at Wirefly, where the BlackBerry Tour for new customers to Verizon is $49.99 with a contract. Once at the Wirefly website, search for BlackBerry Tour, at first the chosen plans will be $59 a month, but you can change the plans to lowest priced plans if you prefer. You do have always buy a data plan with a BlackBerry on Verizon.
You can add coupon codes for free 2GB memory ( enter WIREFLYMCARD5) and a free Bluetooth headset (enter WIREFLYBTOOTH30 at checkout.)
Memory card oupon code discountinued.Wirefly is not selling the Sprint version of the BlackBerry Tour, yet.
LetsTalk.com
is selling the BlackBerry Tour for $149 for new customers with a contract. They include free shipping with a contract. You can 25% off Accessories with a plan (use coupon code 698adb7e. For 5% the shopping cart use coupon code "summer" to receive 5% off the entire shopping cart up to $25 on LetsTalk.com. Expires 09/22/09.
The big sale of the weekend is the Wirefly free any model BlackBerry Curve.
The sale included all carriers and new or current customers. Now the deal is only for new customers.