the blackberry tour
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009I so upgraded my phone to the Blackberry Tour on Sprint. It has EVDO Rev A and a pretty quick processor… it’s a pretty viable computer in the palm of your hand, but still a really great phone.. even clearer that my Pearl was.. which is usually a trade off with other such devices I’ve had.
Connection speed is about 500-600Kbps .. not 1-3Mbps like EVDO Rev A is supposed to give ya, so it’s really the processor in the thing slowing it down. This is about 10 times faster, in both directions, though than the Pearl. I ran the speed tests using Xtreme Labs speedtest.
With the faster stuff and the full keyboard and a speaker that can play LOUD ring tones (I have the volume at half right now, cuz damn), that fixes all the problems I had with the Pearl.
The only problem I’ve had so far is Google Maps not being able to find the GPS.. I guess they are working on that. I got another app called Poynt that I’ll use unti it gets fixed.
I’ve also found an SSH client for the Blackberry which uses MIDP Java stuff found here: http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ … works pretty damn well… you gotta be sure to put the connection type on TCP/IP .. Default will not work and give a connection string error .. now I can reset shit over ssh from my phone… it’s the holy grail I’ve been looking for since the dawn of time