Folks,
I’ve finally gotten my hands on the specs for the Blackberry Passport,
including cost!
If
you’ve been following my blog, you’d have no doubt seen my video that gave a
teaser in my blog
article entitled “Blackberry
Passport Specs revealed in Hands-on - Why Microsoft Office and BBM Music will
make the Passport Hip to Be Square”.
So
I’m a little excited to reveal the full specs of the Blackberry Passport as
reported in an article by GSMArena
entitled “BlackBerry
Passport detailed review appears ahead of launch”, published 27 August,
2014, GSMArena and “Alleged
BlackBerry Passport Review Details Specifications and Features”, published
August 28, 2014 by Robin Sinha, NDTV Gadgets.
This
thanks to our Czech friends at Mobilenet.cz!
Based
on a survey conducted by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech in the First Quarter of 2014
with some 20,000 volunteers, phablets may be the next big trend after all as
stated in the article “The
world wants a bigger iPhone and big smartphones in general”, published
August 28, 2014 12:58 PM PDT by Eric Mack, CNET
News, especially as this study's sample size is so large. So the Blackberry
Passport is already on some solid footing!
Blackberry Passport
Specs Revealed – Metallic Accent with Big Battery makes this a Winner
The
Blackberry Passport sports a 4.5" display that boasts a resolution of
1440x1440 with an eye-popping 453 ppi (pixel per Inch) density. That display
isn't Sapphire but Gorilla Glass 3, which is almost as strong. It measures 128mm by 90.3mm by 9.3mm (5.04” by
3.56” by 0.37”) and weighs a hefty 195g (6.88 oz), which is expected for a
square smartphone that's bordering more into phablet territory.
First
impressions last, so the Blackberry Passport better be packing the goods for me
to heft around such a overstuffed smartphone, Turns out I might be unto
something here as the specs for this smartphone are impressive to say the
least.
Running
Blackberry 10.3 OS, it's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chipset
with a Quad-Core 2.2GHz Krait 400 CPU, Adreno 330 GPU with some 3GB of RAM. The
microSD Slot support a 32GB SD Card that doubles up on the 32GB of Internal
Memory.
What's
a smartphone without a camera these days?
All
that raw power is encased in a steel frame that’s got baby-bottom soft yet grippable
material on its back. Its keypad feels roomy and has the added innovation of
being a Touchpad as well, like a gigantic touchable mouse. The Czech at
Mobilenet.cz claims it's great to write on and especially easy to delete words
by swiping to the left!
Its
aesthetics are not quite fully metallic.
But
the fact it incorporates a bit of metal means that like the Samsung Galaxy
Alpha as declared in my blog article
entitled “Samsung
Galaxy Alpha with Metallic Band - Last of the 5” smartphones with decreased
Battery Life as the Luddite Camp gets Larger”, Blackberry’s realizing that
a little metal makes your product look well built, sturdy and have a classy
finish that'll appeals to the more business-minded customer.
What
really has me sold is the Battery size, which is a whopping 3,450mAh, which
should give you several days worth of talk-time. I’m still on my Luddite Perch
as it relates to my liking of smartphones as explained in my blog article
entitled “The
Reason why I don't like Smartphones - Location Privacy and How to disable
Location Services on Android and iOS”, but this spec alone in my mind gives
the Blackberry Passport, in my book, a passing grade!
The Final Note – At
US$720, Hip to Be Square is pushing the Phablet Trend against the Apple iPhone
This
makes its prices of US$760 by September 2014 sound quite justified, especially
as it's a productivity packed device as predicted in blog article
entitled “Blackberry
Passport coming in September 2014 - Squaring up again the competition in
Portrait and Landscape Mode”.
So
is the Blackberry Passport for you?
At
US$760, the Blackberry Passport options make being Hip to be Square a bit of a
risk. But coupled with possible Microsoft Office, BBM 2.0 and BBM Music as
predicted my blog
article entitled “Blackberry
Passport Specs revealed in Hands-on - Why Microsoft Office and BBM Music will
make the Passport Hip to Be Square”, it's a bet worth making.
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