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BLACKBERRY PASSPORT : REVIEW

While Blackberry has not got the quite a reception by the consumers in the latest evolution of smart-phones.For years, BlackBerry tried to fight the iPhone, but that was a battle it brutally lost.
We know that the ideal BlackBerry user doesn't have time to play games, doesn't have time to send Snapchats, and doesn't have time for any nonsense.This person only has time for business (Workaholic)BlackBerry actually has a name for these people: “Power Pros.” Surely the passport defines the "Power Pros" and is the best for them.Lets see if it really wows you to switch from Android or iPhone ?

DESIGN :

The name really just defines the design of the product , the Passport really looks like one.
Passport is really like big , its almost 5.03 inches tall and 3.55 inches wide . And heavy too weighing a whooping 6.91 ounces . BlackBerry spent some time in a medieval torture device and got stretched it out in all four corners. making it deliberately looking as an international passport.The device is 9.3 mm thick not definitely the normal thickness.The Passport is surrounded by a metal ring around the plastic body.The Passport features the traditional physical keyboard , but this time its a 3 row physical keyboard with this time featuring contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalized learning engine that knows what are you going to type next.We feel that the size of Passport should have been slightly increased so that the keyboard could be a full-fledged one.

DISPLAY

The Passport has a screen size of 4.5" with a resolution of 1440 X 1440 and a pixel density of 453 ppi . The screen is a IPS LCD screen is extremely bright, detailed, and vibrant . Not the best in the industry as per the standard flagship coming now days. But the 4.5 " screen also looks quite big on this massive device.The Passport 4.5" screen is built for business purposes like Emails and Spreadsheets so that you can work on the go. You can now display the whole web page on the screen and the directions look quite better on the screen.But its lot a pain while using the square screen like scrolling the news feed and twitter feed . And the videos also look quite odd with the black bars eating up half the display while watching videos.

KEYBOARD :

The Blackberry has just taken the classic iconic keyboard to the next level.The screen serves to the additional features of the keyboard .The keys are more softer and doesn't have that click sound that the blackberry mastered .The keyboard has built in sensors , so you can scroll web pages by just swiping the keyboard and flick to type or slide along the keys to move the cursor.All the shortcuts are built in the by just swiping or tapping the keyboard.You have to really master the keyboard , but it has now speech tying.

BATTERY AND CAMERA :

All of this is juiced by a massive 3450 mAh battery. But the battery is not that impressive , basically it just a software problem for now. The battery sometimes gets dead in merely hours and some days it will last longer than a day.Still the whole battery is not tested.

The new 13-megapixel camera is the best camera any BlackBerry has ever had, but that’s not really saying much. It has autofocus, can shoot 1080p video in 30 or 60 frames per second, and its picture quality is usually good, if not great. But it’s slower than the competition, and sometimes it takes multiple seconds to launch (if it launches at all). It also takes pictures in the Passport’s square screen format by default, even though there isn’t an Instagram app available to share those square photos.

BB 10

Blackberry has improved more features in BB 10 , now making it more customer friendly. The BB 10 now supports android apps and Amazon App store is now the secondary app store in the software after BB marketplace.
The Hub features now an instant actions will allow you to quickly organize and action your inbox without having to go into each individual message. Plus, BlackBerry Priority Hub will get to know you and how you use your smartphone, curating a view of the most important messages and notifications. With a single swipe to help you stay organized, in control and on top of all your conversations.
BB 10 now also features a personal assistant just like the Siri , Cortana or the Google now.
It can do the basic stuff and all the features most of them do. It is just like the BB 10 Personal Assistant leaked in the previous post.

PERFORMANCE :

The Passport has got lots of power in it, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.2GHz Quad-Core CPUs and graphics is powered by Adreno 330, 450MHz GPU .
Supporting it 3 GB RAM with internal 32 GB Flash memory that can be expandable up to 128 Gb via a micro-SD card.Passport has a USB 2.0 for all those fast data transfer.

Saying all these there is quite a performance lag when multitasking it fails sometimes.The camera app opens in some time and also the Personal Assistant is quite slow at times and can get lagging.Comparing it with the flagships like iPhone and Samsung it seems like just back dated .

SHOULD YOU BUY IT ??

While whatever you do the Blackberry Passport is not even comparing to latest flagships. Seeing that Blackberry is not up to the mark in the market , Passport does not seem a game changer . The phablet size smart phone is just not at the right time in the market.Passport is $600 (off contract) while the iPhone 6 is just $50 dollars more and Note 4 is just $100 more.Which are way more advanced ,if you want to put a hammer in the foot just by a Passport.