Throwback review of the BlackBerry Passport (BB10 OS).
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This unusually wide smartphone sports a large, square touch screen, physical keyboard with touch gestures, top-end Snapdragon processor, 13-megapixel camera with OIS, memory card slot, and NFC.
The BlackBerry® Passport™ smartphone is designed to be different from other smartphones, with a large, wide touch screen and a touch-sensitive keyboard.
The BlackBerry Passport design was based on the form of an actual passport, providing a sense of familiarity even in something so new. Its frame was inspired by the steel I-beams used in modernist architecture, and the gentle shape of the back cover feels great in your hand, while accommodating a large battery.
The BlackBerry Passport takes our iconic keyboard to the next level. The physical keyboard gives you more typing accuracy and leaves you more screen space for viewing. It responds to touch gestures, so you can scroll web pages, flick to type or slide along the keys to move the cursor.
The BlackBerry Passport is built for busy people like you, with optimization of power consumption in BlackBerry® 10 and an impressive 3450 mAh battery. That’s almost 2 times bigger than the battery in the iPhone® 6.
BlackBerry Passport is a smartphone developed by BlackBerry Limited. Officially released on October 24, 2014, the Passport is inspired by its namesake and incorporates features designed to make the device attractive to enterprise users, such as a unique square-shaped display measuring 4.5 inches diagonally, a compact physical keyboard with touchpad gestures, and the latest release of the company's BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Reception to the Passport was mixed; critics praised the quality of the device's design, screen, and keyboard for meeting the company's goals of creating a business-oriented device, along with an improved application selection through the integration of Amazon's Appstore for Android (taking advantage of the Android software support provided by BlackBerry 10) alongside BlackBerry's own store for native software. Criticism of the Passport was focused primarily on its irregular form factor, with its width being even wider than most phablet smartphones, making the device difficult to carry and use one-handed due to its increased width, while its keyboard was criticized for having made a subtle but perceptible layout change in comparison to past BlackBerry devices.
The Passport features a square-shaped 4.5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1440×1440, as opposed to a 16:9 display, making the Passport considerably wider than other phablets currently available. The Passport includes a quad-core, 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 system-on-chip with 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of expandable, internal storage, along with a non-removable 3450 mAh battery rated for at least 30 hours of mixed usage. The Passport also includes a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with optical image stabilization, and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. During phone calls, the Passport can measure ambient noise using a microphone in its earpiece, which can then be used to automatically adjust call volume.
The Passport is preloaded with BlackBerry 10.3, the latest version of BlackBerry's operating system at launch. The new version features a refreshed interface, a personal digital assistant known as BlackBerry Assistant, BlackBerry Blend, an application that allows the user to access information from their device on their smartphone and tablet such as email, documents, images and BBM, the company's own direct messaging service, alongside other new features. Alongside BlackBerry World for native applications, 10.3 also includes the third-party Amazon Appstore, offering Android apps that can run on the Passport.
The Passport also come with an 802.11ac WiFi transceiver with hotspot and Wi-Fi Direct capabilities and a Bluetooth 4.0 transceiver. It also features an FM radio with RDS capabilities, NFC, support Miracast screen mirroring, as well as HDMI and VGA output via SlimPort.
Specs:
2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, 3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100, 4G: LTE 700 / 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100
4.5-inch IPS LCD Capacitive Multi-Touchscreen (up to 10 fingers!) w/ Protective Corning Gorilla Glass 3
BlackBerry 10 OS, Quad-Core 2.2 GHz Processor, Chipset: Qualcomm MSM8974AA Snapdragon 81, Adreno 330 Graphics
13 Megapixel Camera (4128 x 3096 pixels) w/ Autofocus, optical image stabilization, LED Flash + Front-Facing 2 Megapixel Camera
Internal Memory: 32GB, 3GB RAM + microSD Slot Expandable up to 128GB
