The BlackBerry Tour's other phone features include a speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, smart dialing, conference calling, speed dial, and text and multimedia messaging. Bluetooth is also onboard with support for mono and stereo Bluetooth headsets, hands-free kits, AV remote, serial port profile, and dial-up networking. However, Sprint recently announced that it will release a Wi-Fi-enabled model at the beginning of and will require device manufacturers to include Wi-Fi on all of its future smartphones.
While this puts some in the predicament of waiting or just buying the Tour now, we'd say that if you have good Sprint 3G coverage now and Wi-Fi isn't a priority, you'll be fine getting the smarpthone now. The rest of the Tour's core features--e-mail, operating system, personal information management tools, GPS, media player, and so forth--are the same as Verizon's model; for more details, check out our full review here.
There's also access to several social networking applications, including Facebook, Flickr, and MySpace, and you can always get more apps from Sprint's software store or BlackBerry App World. Note that the latter doesn't come preloaded on the device. You'll have to download BlackBerry App World from your mobile Web browser, but it's a simple and fast process. The one downside is that you can't save apps to a media card, only the phone's main memory. On our end, conversations sounded clear with very little to no background noise, and we had no problems using an airline's voice-automated response system.
Friends seemed even more impressed with the phone's call quality, noting that it sounded like we were calling from a landline. They also had high praises for the speakerphone, as did we, though we thought the sound was just slightly lopsided given that the speaker is located on the left spine of the phone.
Using the smartphone's 3. Video playback was also good. We watched a couple of MPEG-4 clips, and audio and images were both synchronized. In this day and age, Wi-Fi should be available on all high-end devices, especially a BlackBerry smartphone. This lack of Wi-Fi support is a deal-breaker for me personally, and I refuse to even consider a Verizon or Sprint device without it. I live and work in an area with decent Verizon and Sprint coverage. As far as service-plan-fees, Sprint tends to offers more competitive prices, but you should investigate individual plans on your own.
Bottom line: The BlackBerry Tour is without question the best option for BlackBerry users on Sprint or Verizon—at least if you want a top-of-the-line device with a physical keyboard. Check this page for free software updates, applications and more. Handheld software version 5. This update should improve your device's voice call performance.
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