Decisions, decisions. As we reported last night, Verizon is now taking pre-orders for the BlackBerry Tour with a launch date of July 12th now made official. But if you mosey over to Big Red's web site to put in your order for the 9630, you are immediately struck with a choice to make-camera or no camera? The two phones share the same model number and price, although we're pretty sure that the shooter costs more than $0 for RIM to procure the necessary parts and labor to put on the device.
Actually, the reason for the choice is to allow those who work for firms that are sensitive about photography in the work place, to still buy the Tour and bring it to work. And it also allows those said companies to buy the Storm for their employees without having to ban them from the work place environment. Just make sure you remember which version you buy because it would be embarrassing to get a subject ready for a photo and then find yourself without the camera.
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