Black Berry Passport: A Phone For Business Professionals

# Design

BlackBerry claims that its shape allows the phone to display 60 characters in a single row which is the same size the e-book readers use. This is wonderful, but did not seem to turn to be really great when using the phone for a short time. The Responsive design on the phone proves that websites are quite easily read on other phones as well, including the BlackBerry Z10 where it is the brand’s primary phone. The build quality of the phone is extremely good. It felt solid but not heavy and the keyboard felt great. The specifications of the phone are also in line with other top end devices as well.

# Specifications

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.

# Other plus points

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 has 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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