Canada’s Research in Motion has formally introduced its new BlackBerry Tour smartphone, which the company hopes will appeal to anybody who takes their business—or their lives—on the road. The new smartphone falls somewhere in between RIM’s consumer-friendly BlackBerry Curve and corporate-oriented BlackBerry Bold, and aims at travelers with high-speed 3G EV-DO Rev A network support (think Verizon and Sprint) along with UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM support for latching on to high-speed mobile networks overseas.
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Nokia N97 Lands In the United States
Nokia has formally launched its top-flight Internet-enabled N97 smartphone in the United States, and (as usual for its high-end devices) is going it alone without a carrier partner. Nokia announced the N97 over six months ago (Digital Trends got a look at it in April), but is finally getting around to bringing it to the U.S. market: the N97 represents the upper crust of Nokia’s phone line, and the company is touting it as an always-connected, personalized Internet device that enables customers to “know it as it happens.” And for $699 on top of a carrier plan, they’d better be comfortable paying to know.


