{"id":491577,"date":"2010-03-30T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/c1c2c1174f31c4b51da4ec32151fa3c4"},"modified":"2010-03-30T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:10:00","slug":"verizon-blackberry-tour-9630-graced-with-official-os-5-0-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491577","title":{"rendered":"Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 graced with official OS 5.0 (finally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/98148-591.jpg\" alt=\"OS 5.0.0.591\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All I can say is it&#8217;s about time.&nbsp; While most BlackBerrys on the market have either launched with OS 5.0 or been upgradeable for some time, the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 was stuck on OS 4.7.&nbsp; Not that it&#8217;s a bad OS by any means, but many in the BlackBerry community felt as if the Tour 9630 (and more specifically, the Verizon version) was being thrown under the bus by Verizon and\/or RIM.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements include: <em><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Camera &#8211; Smoother operation in both camera and video  applications.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Calling &#8211; Improved Bluetooth  functionality for last number dialed, enhanced functionality for Voice  Activated Dialing in both French and English, improved missed call log  showing missed Call Waiting calls, and upgraded Call Waiting caller ID  and call timer.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Messaging &#8211; Improved functionality for  reading, sending, forwarding, and deleting SMS messages as well as  corrected in-box display when in holster.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bluetooth &#8211;  Improvements in operation when using VZ Navigator<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Push  To Talk &#8211; Push To Talk capability Software Availability<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were rumblings in the community that the .591 build was less than perfect, so it will be interesting to see how it pans out as an official release.&nbsp; Go get your download on, and let us know how it performs!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/verizon-update-blackberry-tour-9630-now-live\" >CrackBerry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ft3LsuVZ7ViBl62lWFzpJaNlYoY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ft3LsuVZ7ViBl62lWFzpJaNlYoY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ft3LsuVZ7ViBl62lWFzpJaNlYoY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ft3LsuVZ7ViBl62lWFzpJaNlYoY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/BqcHaMyOeNU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I can say is it&#8217;s about time.&nbsp; While most BlackBerrys on the market have either launched with OS 5.0 or been upgradeable for some time, the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 was stuck on OS 4.7.&nbsp; Not that it&#8217;s a bad OS by any means, but many in the BlackBerry community felt as if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}