The BlackBerry Tour 9630 has landed, and our sibling site, CrackBerry.com has been all over it like, well, Kevin on a new BlackBerry. Check out their full BlackBerry Tour review and new BlackBerry Tour Forums for all the details.

It’s not a touchscreen like the BlackBerry Storm (or Storm 2 will be), and it’s not on GSM networks like the Bold or Curve, but it sounds like it mixes elements of all those devices to maybe help the big CDMA carriers keep the BlackBerry faithful happy and their eyes away from the iPhone and AT&T for a few more months at least.

If you’re on Verizon and love hardware keyboards, it’s likely a no-brainer upgrade. If you’re on Sprint, you could always get both the latest Palm and BlackBerry and go on a Pre-Tour — last smartphone standing!

Update: Commenters remind us that the BlackBerry Tour doesn’t have Wi-Fi (jeers, Verizon!) and, as we mentioned a couple posts ago, Verizon is continuing their faux-openness by putting their own app stores on their devices, rather than the BlackBerry App World (torches and pitchforks, Verizon!)

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The Competition: BlackBerry Tour has Landed

Join Dieter, Matthew, Rene, and Kevin as they discuss all of the insanely great new smartphones that have been announced and released in the past month. On the docket:

• Palm Pre Review
• iPhone 3GS Review
• Nokia N97 Review
• BlackBerry Tour Review
• HTC Hero
• and a bit more about Windows Mobile to boot. It’s all here!

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• Listen to it here with the player above

Show notes after the break.

• Matthew Miller for Nokia Experts
• Rene Ritchie for The iPhone Blog
• Kevin Michaluk for CrackBerry.com
• and Dieter Bohn for PreCentral.net, , TreoCentral, and Android Central

• HTC Snap
• Samsung Jack
• BlackBerry Tour Announced
• BlackBerry Tour Review
• Things to Love and Hate about the N97
• The N97 is Here to Stay
• iPhone 3GS Launch Roundup
• iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough
• Palm Pre Review
• Homebrew is here
• HTC Hero Announced
• HTC Sense on Hero

Credits

Special thanks to gmz for the song Parametaphoriquement, licensed under the Creative Commons at CCMixter.org

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