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$179.99 for new customers. $199.99 for upgrades.

The BlackBerry Tour 9630 can best be thought of as the long-awaited next generation of the 8830 World Edition.

The Tour offers an impressive feature set and sleek design, and supports CDMA and high-speed EVDO networks at home and 3G networks abroad so you can stay connected while you tour the world.

If you weren’t a big fan of the Storm and its touch screen, this may well be the Verizon BlackBerry you have been waiting for.

Hurry while supplies last!

By Satirous Mochsem

LOS ANGELES– Today marks the anniversary of California’s ban on driving-while-talking without a hands-free device.

But one Californian long ago decided to give the law the boot.

After being pulled over twice for talking on her custom gold and diamond studded Motorola RAZR, Maria Garcia Perez y Diaz de Arroyo decided to take a stand.

“Daddy had this phone made for me special, and I love it. I wouldn’t be caught dead with one of those Bluetooth thingies in my ear – but I knew I couldn’t survive without talking on the phone and driving,” said Garcia Perez y Diaz de Arroyo.

Armed with freakish flexibility from years of Pilates classes, Garcia Perez y Diaz de Arroyo decided earlier this year that she would redefine the meaning of hands-free.

“I can wrap my feet around the back of my head, so I got the idea to hold my phone up with my foot. Then I asked Daddy’s lawyers to look into it — and it’s totally legit. There’s nothing in there about not using your foot.”

With some practice, Garcia Perez y Diaz de Arroyo was soon back to her favorite pastime of talking while driving.

With eyes forward, two hands on the wheel, and a foot to her ear, she was again cruising the streets of Beverly Hills while chatting it up – this time fully legal.

Despite continued hassling by the boys in blue, she remained undeterred. “I got pulled over like four more times because [the police officers] thought I was talking with my hand. Each time I just held my phone up to my head for them, and they didn’t give me a ticket.”

“I even showed one cop how I could wrap both my legs behind me. He was sweet. He left me his number on a slip from his ticket book.”

Source: Wirefly Wireless Not-News

The BlackBerry Tour 9630 is, at long last, almost here. The device, originally codenamed ‘Niagra,’ is effectively the next generation of the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. We were lucky enough to get a sneak peak at the Tour, and we were impressed. The Tour, as its name suggests, connects to CDMA and high-speed 3G EVDO networks at home as well as EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks overseas.

The device’s impressive feature lineup includes a full HTML browser, 3.2 megapixel camera with flash and auto focus, a camcorder, GPS capabilities, support for up to a 32GB microSD card, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, and Stereo Bluetooth. Read more…

It seems like every few weeks I open up a paper (I know, so 20th century of me) or browse to a major website where I am greeted by a big, bolded headline that begs the question: Is [insert name of new device here] the iPhone killer? I make no efforts to conceal my dislike of the term “iPhone killer.” In fact, I’ve made every effort to avoid any serious use of the term in the past. Yet, after my time with the Palm Pre, I am willing to make a bold statement.

At long last, there may be the makings of an iPhone killer on the loose. To be sure, the Palm Pre has its fair share of first generation hiccups and disappointments, but with sleek hardware, superior multitasking abilities and a touch driven operating system that undoubtedly rivals (read wins over in many ways) that of the iPhone, Apple will finally have to begin thinking defensively if it is to maintain its dominance in the touch screen market. Read more…

We waited. We tried to document the excitement … and finally … we got it.

Here’s the Web’s first professional unboxing of the iPhone 3G S.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux4-W1PS9WA

No one knows exactly when the Apple iPhone 3.o update will hit servers for mass consumption…but word on the street is that if you are furiously clicking the “Check for Update” button in iTunes you will be able to give your index finger a rest in the next few hours. The 3.0 update is sure to further imperil lives of iPhone addicts, adding a host of new must have features including a spotlight search, stereo Bluetooth, a landscape keyboard (finally), MMS (as soon as AT&T supports it), improved calendaring, voice memo app, and some others …and, oh yeah, copy and paste…that has the potential to keep addicts up all night. With two final countdowns scheduled in just three days (the iPhone 3GS is available for rabid consumers come Friday), Apple is once again the media darling. Find out more about the 3.0 update at Apple.

Update: As of 1:25 EST, the 3.0 update is now available.  Plug in your iPhone or iTouch and open iTunes to start your download. 

Smartphone goliath Research in Motion (RIM) has officially announced the Blackberry 9630 Tour, expected to be available this summer on both Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks.  The Tour is the company’s successor to the popular BlackBerry 8830 world edition, and boasts connectivity to high-speed 3g EVDO networks in North America and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad, apparently living up to its name.  The Tour is also equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus, and video recording, support for up to 32 GB of extra space with a microSD card, GPS, a standard 3.55mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and a full HTML browser.  Check in at Wirefly later in the summer to pick up the Tour.  See more information here at RIM.