This Week in Phones #3 - Quick Look of BlackBerry Tour

Recently I migrated from AT&T to Sprint, mainly for coverage reasons. Upon switching, I picked up the BlackBerry Tour. This is my first smartphone, and I wanted to give my readers just a quick overview of the phone and its specs.

First off, the phone I have is running on Sprint’s network. If you’re on Verizon and want this phone, there is a Verizon counterpart. Both are the same price and have the same feature set. The phone itself has 256MB of ram, and comes with a 1GB microSD card (but no adapter). The SD card is located behind the battery door which is a little inconvenient, but not a big deal.

The phone does have a full QWERTY keyboard and BB’s legendary trackball, which helps you navigate screen items easier. The display is 480x360, which looks very good when brightness is turned all the way up, but I recommend turning it down to about 10, just to conserve battery life. The phone does have a 3.2 megapixel camera, which does take good pictures.

The phone comes preloaded with a few social networking apps such as Facebook and Flickr. It also comes with your typical productivity apps (Word to Go, Excel to Go and PowerPoint to go)

So in conclusion, that has been a brief overview of the BlackBerry Tour for Sprint. A full review will be coming in about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks, so keep a look out for that.

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