Remember that BlackBerry Essex without notice, first appeared in September? A Verizon branded version that has been detected in the wild, confirming that the largest airline in North America will launch sometime in the near future. According Salomondrin, the Essex 9650 could be released by Verizon in a month or so – maybe at the same time with the Plus Pre Palm, Motorola and LG Devour VS750.
The Essex is also known as BlackBerry Tour 2, which should be a successor of the Tour 9630, launched by both Verizon and Sprint this summer. Unlike the Tour 9630, the Essex / tour2 9650 has optical trackpad. Other than that, its features include Wi-Fi and it is likely that all other things that the original Tour. The 9650 Essex will probably be launched by Sprint as well, but no word yet on whether this can happen.