“We
are pleased to have agreed new terms with BlackBerry to provide its users with
access to music. This arrangement ensures both the continuation of our
relationship with BlackBerry and our ability to sell music to its users.”
Chief Executive Officer
of 7digital. Simon Cole commenting on the new Deal minted with Blackberry to
provide Streaming Music Service
Finally
some new on the Blackberry Passport that’s set to launch sometime in September
2014 that’s the kind of Positive news that BlackBerry CEO John Chen is sure to
love as noted in my blog article
entitled “Blackberry
blogs positive reviews of Passport as Z3 sells out in India - Blackberry
Passport may be their ticket on the Indian Express”.
The
first bit of news is the specs for the Passport. A U.K. retailer Carphone
Warehouse did a very good and probably the only official hands-on video of the
Passport in action as noted in
“BlackBerry
Passport: Hands-on video shows off keyboard features”, published August 14,
2014 By Malarie Gokey, Digitaltrends
and “BlackBerry's
Strange New Smartphone Has A Physical Keyboard That Doubles As A Touchpad”,
published AUG. 15, 2014, 10:28 AM by LISA EADICICCO, BusinessInsider
The
second bit of good news is that based on that video, we now have an idea of the
specs of the Blackberry Passport to explain why it’s hip to be Square as
pointed out in my blog
article entitled “Blackberry
Passport coming in September 2014 - Squaring up again the competition in
Portrait and Landscape Mode”.
Blackberry Passport –
Microsoft Office and BBM Music will make it Hip to be Square
The
squarish Blackberry Passport, interestingly, is the best of both worlds with
Blackberry 10.3 OS. It's packing the big ARM guns with a 2.5GHz, Snapdragon 801
Processor and a very ample 3GM RAM. External microSD support for up to 32GB is
somewhat lackluster as given its size; I was expecting at least 64GB SD Card
Support. Also the camera is a bit underwhelming, being as it’s an 8Megapixel
camera; apparently software on the Passport will be doing the work of making
the images pop.
But
the important thing to me is the workspace for doing business i.e. spreadsheets
and reading Word Documents. It’s go an ample 4.5" capacitive touch screen
with a resolution of 1,440 × 1,440 pixels and a full QWERTY Keyboard. That's
good enough to do great amounts of work but if there's no native support for
Microsoft Office, then the Passport won't get stamped with the VISA and thus be
able to board the prosperity plane.
But
all work and no play without music isn’t cool.
Blackberry
took the hatchet to their BBM Music they’d launched in August 2011 as reported
in “BlackBerry
and 7digital strike deal to launch new music service”, published Thursday 14
August 2014 07.13 BST, published Mark Sweeney, The UK Guardian. If you remember, users
of the BBM (Black Berry Messenger) could stream for only US$5 per month as
stated in my blog
article entitled “BBM
Music Service coming for US$5 monthly – The Sound of Music attracts Millennials”.
However,
the re-inked a deal with 7Music, the providers of BBM Music to have them take
over the service and keep all the profit from song sales. Thus BBM Music is not
only back but it may be coming on the Blackberry Passport, giving you music to
rock to while you work on the go.
Blackberry
10.3 OS promises a lot of update features that’ll be on display in London in September
2014. But if it has Microsoft Office built in and BBM Music in the BBM, then
it’ll REALLY be hip to be Square.
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