Reliance Mobile and RIM launches BlackBerry Tour Smartphone in India

21 October 2009 No Comment

Reliance Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) launches BlackBerry Tour smartphone in India for Reliance’s CDMA customers. The BlackBerry Tour is a feature packed and high refined smartphone, and is available nationally from October 10 for Rs 27990.

The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a 3G-enabled smartphone offering state-of-the-art communication and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling. It features international roaming support to help users stay in touch whether they travel around the corner or around the world.

“Reliance Mobile has been the leader in CDMA communication technology in India since its inception. We are delighted to introduce the BlackBerry Tour smartphone on our well-established CDMA platform. The innovation and advanced technology that the BlackBerry Tour incorporates is ideal for today’s consumer who is always on the move,” said Mr. Vrajesh Shelat, Head Wireless Data Business, Reliance Mobile.

With the launch of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone, we are offering our CDMA customers an opportunity to leverage the high speed data experience on both our CDMA and GSM networks, he added.

“The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a world phone in a complete sense, with sharp styling that resonates well with the suave and 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 BlackBerry Tour takes mobile empowerment to the next level,” said Ms. Frenny Bawa, Vice President, India, Research In Motion.

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 roll out the BlackBerry Tour to its GSM customers soon.

Reliance Mobile, BlackBerry Tour smartphone comes with 112mm x 62mm x 14.2mm (L X W X D) and weighs just 130g. It includes a large, easy-to-use, full-QWERTY keyboard in addition to its large (2.44″) bright display (480 x 360 resolution at 245 ppi), which delivers the highest resolution available on a BlackBerry smartphone and displays pictures, web pages and videos with incredible clarity.

Features of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone-
•         3.2 MP camera with flash, variable zoom, image stabilization, autofocus and video recording
•         Full HTML web browser, including support for streaming audio and video (RTSP)
•         Advanced media player for videos, pictures and music, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and support for the Bluetooth® Stereo Audio Profile (A2DP/AVCRP)
•         256MB Flash memory
•         Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available
•         Built-in GPS with support for geotagging and other location based applications and services
•         BlackBerry Media Sync, which allows customers to quickly and easily synch music from iTunes® and Windows Media Player with the smartphone**
•         Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, enhanced background noise cancellation, a low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
•         Preloaded DataViz Documents to Go allowing users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset
•         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
•         BlackBerry Internet Service support, allowing access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts
•         BlackBerry Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features within IBM Lotus® Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise environments
•         Removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery for 5 hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time
* Video recording requires microSD card, which may be sold separately
** Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies

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