Is Blackberry Passport trying to Lure Corporate Customers?

BANGALORE: The phone which aims at the business clan is now here priced at the whopping some of 49,990. It is said to be out on the markets from October 10 and the phone is said to be up for Pre-order on the Amazon and Blackberry Priority stores.

The first noticeable change you can see on the BlackBerry Passport is its massive size. Where the phone sports a 4.5-inch display sounding actually small, due to the square display design on the phone it seems larger. The square screen takes up most of the phone, but there's a short three-row keyboard below the display. At over 3.5 inches wide, the passport is also wider than most of the other larger phones in the market.

On the hardware side, the phone boasts of a 4.5 inch touch screen display with a resolution of 1440x1440 pixels protected by a corning gorilla glass 3. On the storage side, the passport has a storage memory of 32GB which is expandable up to 128 GB. It gets a 13 mega pixel camera on the rear with a 2 mega pixel on the front side. Its hardware consists of a Qualcomm snapdragon quad core processor which clocks a speed of 2.26 GHz coupled with a 3GB of RAM. A 3450 mAh battery powers the phone which provides a talk time of 18 hours.

The company also has given some tweaks about its new BlackBerry OS 10.3. It brings a dedicated home screen and an Amazon app store pre-installed. It also comes with the BlackBerry Assistant which can make appointments, read out your emails and search for contact details more effectively.

The experience of using the phone would be a little awkward considering its size and even for a regular BlackBerry user, the new keyboard is not like the older one it takes time to be learnt. The BlackBerry World app store also remains pretty limited and they have support for Android apps it may have many missing from the app store which could still end up being the downside on the phone.

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