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It looks like Verizon Wireless is planning to launch the highly anticipated BlackBerry Tour on July 12th. The price is set to $199 with a 2-year contract, according to Verizon’s testman site. It will sell like hot cakes.

Starting today, the stylish BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 is available from Alltel for $80 after a two-year customer agreement and mail-in rebate.

As announced previously, on yesterday Verizon has released the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 for its customers. This consumer-friendly phone is available for purchase now for $79.99 on contract after rebates.

Since there will be a CDMA BlackBerry Tour 9630 (from Verizon), Sprint didn't take it's time to announce the same handset for its network. It was expected, really. The company will start selling it "later this summer" at a price of $199.99 after $150 worth of rebates and a 2-year agreement.

Verizon has confirmed the upcoming release of the BlackBerry Tour on its network by unveiling a teaser page for the smartphone. There's just a fancy product shot and a newsletter sign up, but this could only mean that the official launch is nearing fast.

A live shot of the upcoming T-Mobile-branded BlackBerry 8520 was posed at the Crackberry forum a couple of days ago. The poster didn't mention anything regarding pricing, and if the previous rumors are true, we can expect it to be released sometime during Q4 2009.

In case you didn't know, Vodafone has released an official firmware update for the BlackBerry Storm 9500. The new OS 4.7.0.148 build is available via the BlackBerry download site. Backup your data before installing.

Apparently U.S. Cellular has plans on releasing a couple of new phones for its customers later this month. Someone has digged up dedicated pages for the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 and Samsung Code i220 on the company's site, and don't try to find them yourself, it's hard work. For full specs of each handset hit the following links:

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That was unexpected, but judging by these photos, Telus will apparently be the second carrier to offer the BlackBerry Tour 9630 in Canada. Sorry, Bell.

Specifications:

• Size (L x W x D): 112 x 62 x 14.2 mm;
• Weight: 130 grams;
• Memory: 256 MB internal Flash memory;
• Expandable Memory: microSD located under the battery door cover;
• Battery: 1400 mAh removable/rechargeable cryptographic lithium cell;
• Battery Life: TBD;
• Keyboard: 35 key backlit QWERTY;
• Display: High resolution HVGA 480x360 pixel;
• Camera: 3.

A CrackBerry forums member has posted some photos of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip in a Verizon store. Althought the said handset looks to be a dummy phone, the release dayte according to the source is “right around the corner”. If the information is true, we can expect to see the real thing on the shelves in a couple of weeks.