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Posted by Saiyajin Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Good stuff! First post!

 
 
Posted by 2PlusTheFoul Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Just a few more weeks until I get one...TELUS of course! *thumbs up*

 
 
Posted by MsRandall Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Even the manual picture is sexy....Come on Sprint I NEED THIS PHONE.....My birthday month would be prefect JULY

 
 
Posted by fishoutofwater0 Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Thanks. Can not wait to get my hands on one now.

 
 
Posted by inc188 Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

yes

i want this.... Freaking Storm is pissing me off

hope bell will get it first

Cheers

 
 
Posted by Duvi Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

always Kev!

 
 
Posted by ilovexspin Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Is it just me or this just seems like any old Blackberry user guide with the first page changed. It talks nothing about the phone specifically and it doesn't even have a little diagram of the phone showing what each button does. It also says nothing about it being a world phone.

A little suspicious to me ...

 
 
Posted by Jeffdc5 Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Very nice should hold you vz guys over untill the tour comes out

 
 
Posted by Seabass88 Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

WTF is with people having to put themselves over for making the first post on every eff'n blog that is on this site. It's really annoying!

Back to this phone, I think it's going to be sweet for CDMA users; although the lack of WiFi is annoying. My brother in law is on Telus and he's waiting patiently for this device! I can't wait to play with it! haha

 
 
Posted by rvzero Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

WTF is with people having to rant and rave about people making the first post on every eff'n blog that is on this site. It's really annoying!

Seriously though, if it annoys you and is on every post - then just like the semi-invasive Google text ads - you should learn to ignore it.

 
 
Posted by tlo07 Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

OMG! Would they just release the darn thing already and put me out of my misery?

 
 
Posted by BenLeong Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

I, too, am suspicious of this. It clearly looks like any other Blackberry manual with just the first page conveniently changed. There's not a single thing that proves it's real, or that it's intended for the Tour.

Hmm...

 
 
Posted by ilovexspin Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

yeah also I have a feeling the real one would say Blackberry 9630 World Phone

I think smartphone is a weird choice of words.

verdict:
fakesies!

 
 
Posted by jasonezzell Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

...because of the SIM chapter. No mention of Global capabilities. Plus it only talks about SIMs from a non-Verizon/Sprint perspective...funny when CDMA carriers are what this phone is aimed at. I'm gonna call fakesies too; this is just a generic manual with a revamped cover page. Plenty of people have Adobe and too much free time. Thanks for the effort though Kev!

 
 
Posted by ilovexspin Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

oh yeah i forgot to mention the SIM thing. that was so weird to me. the person who made this could have at least copped the 8830 manual and changed it to 8930 to make it a little more legit.

 
 
Posted by BlaqkAudio Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Have any of you guys actually looked at the manual or another manual to compare? Neither the Storm 9530 nor the 8830 were called World Phones on their manual covers; they were both called smartphones.

Second, world phone capabilities are clearly talked about under the sections "About global roaming mode", "Connect to a GSM or UMTS network", and "Set the wireless networks to use with global roaming mode".

Third, none of the manuals contain a diagram of the phone.

 
 
Posted by jasonezzell Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

All very good points. I rushed to judgment a bit too hastily. I went back and reviewed all the manuals on the BB site (which I had never done, only my own 8830 manual) and the user guides are all pretty generic regardless of which phone they belong to.

I was thinking of the "Getting Started" guides which offer more detail about the specific models in question. And let's be honest, that would be a more fun read.

 
 
Posted by ilovexspin Tuesday, May 26, 2009 990 days ago

yeah I did too. It still could very easily be fake, but it doesn't change anything because there's like a 70% chance it will look like that anyway. I was thinking of the getting started guide as well. Please leak that whoever leaked this!!!!!!!

 
 
Posted by tmartz Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Alright everyone who always says come on RIM release the darn thing already, Its people like you who are the first ones to complain when it does come out casue something was wrong with it or something like that. Just give RIM time and they will try to make it as perfect as they can

 
 
Posted by blacktoothberry Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Why would you want this knowing future Blackberries will have wifi on Verizon?Those who are on carriers with wifi I can understand.

 
 
Posted by medic673 Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Does this mean the release date is coming up soon?

 
 
Posted by mannmade Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

I've always wondered where I could get a hold of this. Thanks.

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Read about Extenze

 
 
Posted by SurrealCivic Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

This looks identical to official RIM documentation. Someone is getting fired for this one..

The "Tour" name leaks in official RIM doc. Corporate office is loving this..

 
 
Posted by jmbladel Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

....I couldn't find the section on configuring WiFi.

j/k! Can't wait for this phone.

 
 
Posted by david.morton Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

Thanks Kevin, very helpful for getting me excited all over again! Only bummer thing that I saw in there is that it is for software version 4.7 and I guess I was really hoping that it might launch with 5.0. Still hoping.

 
 
Posted by LiteTouch Man Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

i am ready for a new blackberry and i have my eye on this one. When dose the TOUR come out???

 
 
Posted by BuddhistGirafe Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

sweet. I want the phone now. anytime RIM, hurry that shit up. And hurry it up on Bell

 
 
Posted by the one and only M Monday, May 25, 2009 991 days ago

i can't believe verizon customers still have close to 2 months to wait for this. that's like 10 years in my book.

 
 
Posted by js107 Tuesday, May 26, 2009 991 days ago

Automated FTP

 
 
Posted by techitrucker Tuesday, May 26, 2009 990 days ago

So, does that mean the phone won't come with the 5.0 OS?

 
 
Posted by squires32 Tuesday, May 26, 2009 990 days ago

So are we still looking at July for the 9630 on Verizon? Anybody have a firm release date?

 
 
Posted by JMagic21824 Tuesday, May 26, 2009 990 days ago

Kept getting pop-ups and when I finally made some sort of progress I got the message "Download Limit Exceeded". Sweet. I'll just sit here and keep dreaming :-/

 
 
Posted by Serajadeyn Tuesday, May 26, 2009 990 days ago

so...i first heard this phone was coming out in MAY. awesome, my contract was up in April, $100 credit baby! i can wait a week or two...

then i heard it was June. since then i havent heard/seen a wiff of news since the rename from Niagra to Tour and the video comparing the sizes...

OKAY FINE, I MIGHT BE ABLE TO HOLD OUT A MONTH...

now I'm seeing comments on here for FREAKING JULY?!?! My phone is turning into a huge pile of junk, i can't adjust the volume so i never hear phonecalls and i need to hard reboot the damn thing once a week now... AND THEY WANT ME TO WAIT UNTIL JULY?!?!?!

*pulls out his hair and screams*

#%^&$% This the Curve 8900 just came out on ATT i guess it's time to switch.

 
 
Posted by Keyman1984 Wednesday, May 27, 2009 989 days ago

If anybody got a hold of this before they removed it from megaupload, can you please send it to Keyman1984@gmail.com PLEASE! thnx (New User)

 
 
Posted by ChesterJoe Wednesday, May 27, 2009 989 days ago

What page do they talk about WiFi and GPS?

 
 
Posted by averagejoe Wednesday, May 27, 2009 989 days ago

Link is no longer active...

 
 
Posted by VZWRocka Friday, May 29, 2009 988 days ago

Link is dead. Anyone have a mirror?