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Leak: Full specs of BlackBerry Tour 9630

Matt Hickey — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:32:54 +0000

The BlackBerry Tour 9630 could go down in history as the most leaked cell phone ever. The phone isn’t suppose to hit carriers until mid-July and we already know everything about it after this latest leak. Heck, there have been full reviews done of the upcoming BlackBerry. In case you missed those, or just want a handy-dandy spec list, here ya go.

MobileSyrup.com dug up this info from the Canadian carrier, Bell. It’s safe to say that the Verizon-spec’d model, which will be available on July 13th btw, should ship with the same stuff. Now, if we only knew the price…

Leak: Full specs of BlackBerry Tour 9630

Matt Burns — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:32:16 +0000

The BlackBerry 9630 is shaping up nicely

Matt Burns — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:20:22 +0000

Praise Jebuz! The next-gen CDMA full keyboard Blackberry seems to be right on track according to a pre-release hands-on by CrackBerry. The model they sent through the paces came out fine, despite not being the final version meant for consumer’s hands. There were, of course, some bugs, but overall, the 9630 seems to be as good as CDMA users can get.

The keyboard is great and compared to a mix of the Bold and Curve. The OS bring some of the Storm’s design magic while pairing it with trackball movement. Hopefully we’ll see this BB on Verizon’s shelves soon, but we haven’t heard anything since the sometime in May timetable. No word on price yet, either.

First extensive hands-on with the BlackBerry 9630 Niagara

Matt Burns — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:00:36 +0000

Bits and pieces of info have been dropping about the upcoming BB 9630 Niagara over the last few months. We spied a video showing the hardware a few days ago, but CrackBerry got their hands on a pre-production build. They like what they see.

The 9630/ seems to fill the space between the small Curve and the large Bold. CB liked the keyboard and form factor. In fact, they like most of what the early build had to offer. There isn’t a working OS, so the extensive post is all about the hardware. We agree that it’s great the CDMA carries here in the States will finally get a great BB before GSM carries. That doesn’t happen often and the craptastic Storm doesn’t count.

Video: First look at the BlackBerry 9630

Matt Hickey — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:00:10 +0000

If the Internet rumors are correct, and when are they not, the BlackBerry Niagara 9630 should be hitting VZW stores sometime this Spring. After the break is the first video we can find of the hardware in action. Word to the wise though, the OS is an early build and is a little buggy. In fact, it never starts up. But the hardware, oh the hardware. It looks great.