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Review: blackberry Tour 9630 (Verizon) MobileCrunch

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I hate to say it, but the Tour feels good in the hand . It has the weight (4.7 ounces) of the old 8800 series but the looks of the newfangled chrome and outrageous motif BlackBerrys you see today (re: Storm, Bold, Curve 8900). Even the carbon fiber-like back slab is gorgeous. It’s visually stunning.

But then you get to the keyboard . At first, I thought it was the greatest keyboard to ever come out of Waterloo, but that repulsion quickly subsided once I started to peck away. Notice those chrome-like bands in between the row of keys? They suck. The elevation of said bands are almost the same height as the keys themselves, leaving you little to no feedback when typing. If I closed my eyes and tried to model I have no idea what my fingers are tapping on. There’s no separation between the keys like the Curve 8900 and they feel like the Impudent’s keyboard, but they’re squished together with very little distinction. It’s a shame, really.

The trackball is recessed a tad more than the Curve 8900, but its not burrowing into the gadget, so that’s a plus.

Call quality is what you’d expect from a BlackBerry device: great. A hint of background noise can be heard from whomever you’re speaking with, but it’s mediocre and barely noticeable. I managed to squeak out over six hours of talk time, which is pretty advantage for any device. Verizon does boast the largest 3G network in the country. Calls over Bluetooth were proper as good.

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