Let’s make it official and let’s take a deeper look at the latest “rumored” device by RIM, the  Blackberry Essex, which will be the replacement of your “already old” Blackberry Tour (9630). This new and sexyfied version of the Tour goes by the code-name “essex” (still no number for it, but it looks like it will be 9650), but what you haven’t seen yet is that inside of the phone (on the engineering screens) is still referred to as another 9630. The essex is still a CDMA/3G phone, just like the Blackberry Tour that’s out right now for sale, but with a few upgrades:

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The new 3G-CDMA-WiFi Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is without a doubt one of the sexiest touch-screens smart-phones out on the market right now. The Droid doesn’t  just have a good looking touch-screen, but it also comes with a slide-out qwerty key-board which you can use instead of your virtual keyboard whenever you feel like it (I’m all about the options; the more the better).  I had a chance to get one a couple of days before the actual release (which happened on Friday, November 6th), and let me tell you that the phone is  problem free out of the box (which is extremely rare now a days on the smartphone world). The OS is very smooth and fluid, but if you are coming from a Blackberry there is for sure a learning curve, but nothing in this beast is too hard to learn.

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