BlackBerry launches Passport smartphone with square screen
At the official debut of the highly anticipated BlackBerry smartphone for business users; the Canadian company chooses an unusual and original design, combining a mechanical keyboard as in their most successful products. We speaks from a long time now but today is officially available on the market. Let’s talk about BlackBerry Passport, the new smartphone from BlackBerry with which the Canadian company wants to propose a design completely different from what we have seen in the past.
BlackBerry Passport uses a 4.5-inch display diagonal, of course, touch-type, with a resolution of 1,440 x 1,440 pixels : then move on to a form completely square to the screen, after all smartphones on the market have adopted the sides of different length passing from reports more or less pushed into a rectangular shape.
BlackBerry Passport also offers a physical keyboard, the BlackBerry smartphone in the tradition from the past, defined by the ” touch-enabled “. A layer of touch-type is mounted on the keys, so that the keyboard can also be used as a tool for interaction with the smartphone touch type and not solely by typing the keys. And for example, can then be scrolling web pages, tap the keys to enter text or slide across the keyboard to move the cursor, leaving space for full-screen viewing.
Among the remaining specifications, we recommend an allocation of memory of 32 Gbytes of storage, a battery life of 30 hours in a declared use of mixed type and a 13 megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization. The SoC used is a Quad Core with a clock frequency of 2.2 GHz, while the memory of the system is equal to 3 Gbytes. The target of this product is, how often the products of Canadian professionals. From the choice of this particular display for 1: 1 ratio aims to facilitate the user experience of the professional user.
Another new feature of this smartphone is the BlackBerry OS 10.3, next to which are BlackBerry Blend. It is a tool that allows you to share content with PCs and tablets stored in your BlackBerry Passport smartphone : PC or other device will then be possible to use Passport as a true gateway, receiving notifications and email, sending BBM messages and accessing document and calendar on your smartphone. At the present time BlackBerry Blend is available at this address, for the operating systems Mac OS X 10.7+, Windows 7+ and tablets with Android 4.4+.
BlackBerry Passport is marketed in the United States at a price of $ 599 plus tax; in France and Germany, the list is € 649.00 including taxes while there is no official indication for the market but in the light of national VAT should be positioned just above the threshold of € 650.00.
