Today Verizon Wireless announced that it will begin selling the recently revealed BlackBerry Tour starting on July 12 for $200 after rebates with new agreement. Those interested can pre-order the Tour online starting today.
Announced earlier this month, the BlackBerry Tour will reach Verizon Wireless in July according to Verizon Wireless’ pre-order page. Verizon Wireless now start to accept pre-order online, or you can purchase it from your local stores from July 12th.
The BlackBerry Tour is in a chic black finish with chrome highlights surrounding its body design (112mm x 62mm x 14.2mm and 130g). It also includes a full-QWERTY keyboard, 2.44-inch display with 480 x 360 resolution, full HTML web browser and 3.2 megapixel camera. The camera module seems to be a better one with flash LED, image stabilization and auto focusing.
For those business users who need some entertainment on the road, the BlackBerry Tour has a 3.5mm headset jack and support the Bluetooth Stereo Audio Profile (A2DP/AVCRP) for wireless music listening. Other than the 256MB flash memory, its microSD/SDHC card slot will allow up to 16GB microSDHC memory card for your file storage.
[via slashgear]
Announced on Monday, European Commission is getting supports from major mobile phone manufacturers for using micro-USB port to charge the phone battery. Those manufacturers represent about 90 percent of Europe’s market share, which include Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, LG, NEC, RIM (BlackBerry), Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.
[via slashgear]
Palm has released its next WebOS software updates for the second time in this month, which contains nothing new but will fix a security hole in its email software. After the WebOS 1.0.4 updates, you will no longer able to install homebrew software using the email software
Feature changes to existing applications
This release addresses several security issues with Palm webOS software.
Note We’d like to thank Townsend Ladd Harris for his help in identifying some of the issues addressed in this release. Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected security issues can find more information at palm.com/security.
[via engadgetmobile]
O2 announced that its mobile broadband customers will have access to BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots, which can be used after an upgrade to O2’s Mobile Broadband Connection Manager software. The deal with BT Openzone offers an additional 3,000 hotspots (including most branches of Starbucks), and builds on the unlimited Wi-Fi all O2 customers benefit from with their O2 mobile broadband tariff.
The new Connection Manager software upgrade will also see the addition of a data counter, enabling users to monitor and control their data consumption more easily. The data counter will provide accurate usage information for individual sessions and link through to an overall usage page. To add extra peace-of-mind for consumers, an automatic notification will be sent to the Connection Manager when 75%, 90% and 100% of their data allowance has been reached.