I guess RIM doesn’t like BlackBerry Niagara, which was the name of BlackBerry 9630. RIM decided to name the new BlackBerry 9630 “BlackBerry Tour”, which is much better than Niagara. The BlackBerry Tour gets official release today, as RIM announced that the Tour phone will be available in this summer at Sprint and Verizon Wireless, and probably by Bell and Telus in Canada. The Tour phone will be available for $199 with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Unlike the controversial BlackBerry Storm phone, which causes many die-hard BlackBerry users to hate BlackBerry products, the BlackBerry Tour doesn’t have a touchscreen.

Features and Specifications of BlackBerry Tour 9630

• Dual-band CDMA/EVDO Rev A (800/1900 MHz)
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA
• 2.44 inch, 480 x 360 pixels TFT display with 65k colors (nope, it’s not a touchscreen)
• 35-key QWERTY keyboard
• GPS / A-GPS
• BlackBerry Maps
• Full HTML web browser
• DataViz Documents to Go
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• Music, video players
• 3.2MP autofocus camera with image stabilization, flash and video recording
• 256MB internal flash memory
• microSD card support, up to 32GB
• 1400 mAh battery
• Talk time: up to 5 hours
• Standby time: up to 14 days
• 112 x 62 x 14.2 mm
• 130 g