So much for exclusivity, eh? Sprint is staying toe-to-toe with Verizon in the race to get the BlackBerry Tour to market, launching the consensus hottest RIM device to date on July 12 for $199.99 on contract after rebates. It’s awfully refreshing to see an ominous statement like “later this summer” morph into “early summer” instead of slipping into the “dead of winter” as is all too often the case with hotly-anticipated phones, and we have a sneaking suspicion the Tour’s gonna sell like a remastered Bonnie Tyler live album (that’s a good thing, by the way). Who’s in?

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Sprint matches Verizon’s pace, launching BlackBerry Tour on July 12 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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