The Blackberry Tour – Possibly my next phone

I know I have been talking about the Palm Pre for awhile now.  Of course there have been mixed reviews but overall I think people are happy with it, including my buddy Sam.  The one downside…  Sprint.  Not that Sprint is that bad but I’m still on Verizon.  There are three phones that I would love to have… iPhone, Palm Pre, or the G1 Android phone.  The interfaces to these phones are awesome, innovative and quite useful.  The blackberry OS, let me tell you…  kind of getting old.  It’s not a touch screen and plus, my Blackberry Pearl is pretty sluggish at times.

Then why I would I stick with the Blackberry?  This week got me thinking about stuff.  I’ve had an insanely busy week as related to work.  I had to get a number of sites out the last two weeks.  There’s one thing that the Blackberry does very well… Email.  So I asked myself…  function over style or style over function?  Don’t get me wrong… the Blackberry Tour looks pretty gorgeous but it’s not one of those other phones.  Yes, more multimedia capabilities and better social networking compatibility, but no touch screen.  Once it comes out next week and I play with it in the store I may have a totally different opinion.  One thing I can definitely count on is that it will function and help me get my work done.  We’ll see what happens.