BlackBerry 9630 Niagara now called BlackBerry Tour 9630
The
BlackBerry Niagara 9630 now has an official name and it’s the
BlackBerry Tour 9630. The device is likely to be promoted alongside the U2 360 Tour which RIM is sponsoring.
The leaks come from a BGR tipster who says the device is to be released in early summer. Also of note, the Web addresses BlackBerry9630.com and BlackBerryTour.com are not only tied to the same IP address, they were both registered on the same day.
What do you think of the new name?
The Blackberry Niagara 9630, RIM’s next wireless wonder, will be called the BlackBerry Tour when it’s officially unveiled. Tour? We get Curve, we even get Bold, but what’s that supposed to mean?
Boy Genius Report was tipped off from an inside source that the eagerly awaited Blackberry Niagara 9630, as it’s codenamed, would be called the BlackBerry Tour when it goes on sale.
This should come as no surprise to BlackBerry addicts: all those comedy codenames tend to get ditched (the BlackBerry Javelin became the Curve 8900), and readers made a quick check of potential domain names for the Blackberry Niagara 9630 which showed that both blackberry9630.com and blackberrytour.com were registered at the same time and point to the same address.
RIM has yet to officially announce the BlackBerry Niagara 9630, but with the company’s big convention, WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) early next month, you’d have to expect a BlackBerry Niagara/Tour showing there, before the Palm Pre and new iPhone hit in Summer.