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All right all you Alltel subscribers left stranded in divested markets, wishing all evilness on your Verizon-owned counterparts, rest the conspiracies and dry your teary eyes; say hello to the BlackBerry Tour. That’s right Alltel has proudly announced that the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is all set to go. The Tour is available immediately in Alltel stores and online for $199 on a 1-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate (insert applause here for a 2-year contract price on a 1-year contract period). You will have to pick up a Smart Choice plan that will run $69.99 and upward. The Tour is nicely compatible with Alltel’s My Circle calling feature too. Congratulations.

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The latest ‘Berry rumor has it that the BlackBerry Tour is getting an OS update, and soon.  The update will be OS 4.7.1.42 with both Sprint and Verizon getting in on the action. While the rumored update won’t make you Tour fit for space travel, it will hopefully fix a number of glitches (slow boot up, trackball type-lag, etc). That’s all folks.

And finally the new 1.1.0.11 version of the BlackBerry App World is here. The rumored update had promised the ability to download and run apps from extendable memory, since BlackBerry devices are sadly anorexic when it comes to internal memory. Sadly the new App World has killed all such rumors in cold blood. What the new version will let you do is archive the app. Yes, archive. These archives can be stored internally or on a memory card so that, in the event the user wishes to reinstall an app again, he or she can do so quickly and easily. A couple of annoying bugs (small bugs) have been fixed, there’s also faster icon loading, available memory display and a separation between top free and top paid apps.

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The Holidays are still a long way away but it’s never too early to start shopping especially if you’re shopping for a new phone for yourself. There is a new rebate sheet circulating the blessed WWW and it goes to show that at least phone makers are getting ready for the holidays. So the ultimate question of Best Buy or Worst Buy, (no pun intended) will soon be answered. Did you cough up some hefty cash too soon or were you right in holding out for the good stuff? The highlights of the sheet feature:

• HTC Touch Pro2
• Blackberry Tour
• HTC Snap
• Motorola W845
• Motorola Crush
• LG UX310 (replaces the UX300)
• LG UX700

The show stoppers are still the smoldering HTC Touch Pro 2 and the rocking BlackBerry Tour 9630. As with all rebate sheets the final drop date for these handsets may still be a while away. The validity for the sheet is 07/17/2009 – 11/12/2009 so actual release dates can’t really be predicted but corporate America never sits idle before the Holidays so expect something good for yourself this year.

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Lately it’s all been about the BlackBerry Tour, and while some of you may be wincing at the very title of this post, there are plenty others who want a modern CDMA BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keypad. N Canada, TELUS will be offering the Tour along with Bell, but TELUS’ price point for the coveted handset as of July 15th is $249.99 on a three year contract. And this really is a tad too high, considering you just signed away three years of your life. Before heading on to TELUS, how about checking in with Best Buy, since they’re offering the Tour $20 cheaper. Not enough to pay for your next vacation, but a penny saved is still a penny earned.

Much to the anger of many Verizon Wireless customers, Big Red has confirmed that the BlackBerry Tour is not available for pre-order if you’re upgrading your current line. Initially speculation had it that it was an ordering glitch or something gone wrong with Verizon’s website, but the company has obstinately placed on the ordering page a clear decision; “Pre–orders not available for upgrade orders at this time.” So does this mean that the BlackBerry Tour is primarily being used to grab new customers first, before the current Verizon crowd can get a piece of the action? Of course not ALL CS reps know what Verizon has planned, so if you can sweet talk your way through most storms, you can get some nice rep to hook you up.

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We swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So in all honesty and in attempts to end all shadows of doubt, Verizon has gone all out with the BlackBerry Tour online and in stores July 12th for $199.99 on a two year agreement. Can’t be clearer than that.

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Bell is sending dummies out, no it’s not shipping its HR people to remote locations all over Canada, the dummies I’m taking about are of the BlackBerry Tour 9630. And if unofficial official confirmation of the Tour coming out soon gets any better than this, than I’d sure like to see it. Not just that, but promotional stuff that is custom to new releases from Bell are also in motion so the Tour is coming, and coming real soon. But the question is will it drop in beside Verizon’s launch of the Tour? Are we looking at twins?

Ok everybody, Sprint has just made it official, expect the BlackBerry Tour to be out affirmatively by July 12^th. Pricing is in-step with Verizon; $199.99 after an instant rebate, but they will also make you deal with a mail-in-rebate that isn’t decided yet. You may rejoice.

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No doubt news has been all about either Sprint or Verizon launching/announcing or bathing the new BlackBerry Tour 9630, but that doesn’t mean that the locals of the Smartphone are going to be left out.  The TELUS Tour is rumored to be out on July 15th, which a lot ways away from the old rumored date of June 22nd. Delays are no one’s idea of the perfect summer but this delay is subject to the old date which itself was a rumor. However other rumors are that there might be a 1GB microSD included as compensation for delay. This is probably the too-far-fetched-to-believe rumor and with the pricing rumor of $249.99 3-year promotional price, it’s not about to happen in this life time.