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Reliance Mobile adds BlackBerry Tour smartphone in store
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 08 October 2009, 23:33 IST
Bangalore: Reliance Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) have introduced the BlackBerry Tour smartphone for Reliance's CDMA customers in India. The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a 3G enabled smartphone offering communication and multimedia abilities with best mobile performance.
The phone is full of features and will be available across the nation from October 12 priced at 
27,990. The users will be able to use the BlackBerry Internet Service for two months as a special promotion from Reliance Mobile for pre-booking customers on CDMA networks.
"Reliance Mobile has been the leader in CDMA communication technology in India since its inception. We are pleased to introduce the phone on our well established CDMA platform. The innovation and advanced technology that the phone incorporates is ideal for today's consumer who is always on the move," said Vrajesh Shelat, Head, Wireless Data Business, Reliance Mobile.
"The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a phone in a complete sense, with sharp styling that resonates well with the well travelled consumer who wants to be connected while on the go. With multimedia functionality as well as support for email, social networking and a wide variety of other mobile applications, the phone takes mobile empowerment to the next level," said Frenny Bawa, Vice President, Research In Motion (RIM), India.
With the launch of this phone, Reliance Mobile has expanded its portfolio of BlackBerry smartphones, which include the BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry 8703 and BlackBerry 8830 for its CDMA network, as well as the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Pearl 8110 for its GSM network. The company also plans to provide the BlackBerry Tour to its GSM customers soon.
The BlackBerry Tour smartphone features a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, variable zoom, image stabilization, autofocus and video recording. It has a full HTML web browser, including support for streaming audio and video. It comes with a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and has 256MB Flash memory. It has a built in GPS for location based services and applications. It has an expandable memory via microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16GB cards and is expected to support the next generation 32GB cards when available.
The phone also provides easy mobile access to Facebook and MySpace, as well as popular instant messaging services including Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger.
It has removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery for five hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time.
27,990. The users will be able to use the BlackBerry Internet Service for two months as a special promotion from Reliance Mobile for pre-booking customers on CDMA networks.
"Reliance Mobile has been the leader in CDMA communication technology in India since its inception. We are pleased to introduce the phone on our well established CDMA platform. The innovation and advanced technology that the phone incorporates is ideal for today's consumer who is always on the move," said Vrajesh Shelat, Head, Wireless Data Business, Reliance Mobile.
"The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a phone in a complete sense, with sharp styling that resonates well with the well travelled consumer who wants to be connected while on the go. With multimedia functionality as well as support for email, social networking and a wide variety of other mobile applications, the phone takes mobile empowerment to the next level," said Frenny Bawa, Vice President, Research In Motion (RIM), India.
With the launch of this phone, Reliance Mobile has expanded its portfolio of BlackBerry smartphones, which include the BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry 8703 and BlackBerry 8830 for its CDMA network, as well as the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Pearl 8110 for its GSM network. The company also plans to provide the BlackBerry Tour to its GSM customers soon.
The BlackBerry Tour smartphone features a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, variable zoom, image stabilization, autofocus and video recording. It has a full HTML web browser, including support for streaming audio and video. It comes with a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and has 256MB Flash memory. It has a built in GPS for location based services and applications. It has an expandable memory via microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16GB cards and is expected to support the next generation 32GB cards when available.
The phone also provides easy mobile access to Facebook and MySpace, as well as popular instant messaging services including Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger.
It has removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery for five hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time.
