BlackBerry finally announces Passport

BlackBerry announced the smartphone Passport to a global event on Wednesday , which took place simultaneously in Toronto, Dubai and London. Despite the fact that the firm has shown the smartphone several times before the event, yesterday it was officially debut, and has provided us with more information on the device itself.

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If you want to see the dimensions of the BlackBerry Passport for yourself, just take control of your real passport. This is exactly the same size. We already know the majority of the specifications, but at the event, the benefits of its different style were explained. It is equipped with a touch screen of 4.5 inches with a resolution of 1440 x 1440 pixels. This offers a pixel density of 453 ppi, which is just perfect. But according BlackBerry is the panoramic effect making the intriguing Passport.

Apparently, reading lights are closer to the Passport page with 62 characters wide, while most thin smartphones fail to offer half of that figure. The widescreen Passport can show 60 characters, making web pages and the easier and more enjoyable to read documents.

A tactile keyboard and BlackBerry 10.3 makes the single Passport

The touch screen is joined by a keyboard, and that's what makes it special Passport . The gestures are essential to its operation, with the ability to slide up to select suggested words, or going down to bring up a list of virtual options, which then correspond to the physical keyboard. Moreover, it facilitates the selection of the text on the screen.

BlackBerry market the Passport with the latest mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10.3 installed. It comes with BlackBerry Wizard, which is simply a Siri competitor / Cortana / Google Now, but rather aimed at business users. He can talk to other systems, but the controls can also be driven when you need to be a little more discreet.

The brand new camera and long battery life

Unusually for a modern smartphone, BlackBerry emphasized the ability of Passport to act as a high-quality speaker . It apparently offers sound quality 18% stronger than the HTC One, and 350% stronger than the Galaxy S5. Moreover, it can adapt to your environment to automatically increase the volume. This feature works even when the smartphone is not against your ear. BlackBerry says that the audio portion of Passport is very good, and could replace the speaker office.

The large battery of 3450 mAh should provide 30 hours of battery life, and make sure you do not fear too much to have an electrical outlet within reach. Also, you can put the smartphone on the table, and it automatically goes into standby mode.

A 13-megapixel camera is embedded in the rear, and equipped with a new lens and a new sensor, which offers optical image stabilization. The company says he will take the best pictures we've ever seen with a BlackBerry smartphone. Inside, there is a quad Snapdragon processor clocked at 2.2 GHz 800, 3GB of RAM, and 32 GB of internal storage.

The iconic Passport will be followed by the Classic

BlackBerry CEO, John Chen, described the smartphone as "iconic" and a "great success" in a relaxed and informal keynote. Chen also managed to give a few blows to the competition.

BlackBerry smartphones offer four by 2015 We have already seen the Z3 and the P'9983, and with the Passport, the Classic will be launched between now and the end of the year.

Available today for the Americans, the BlackBerry Passport is expected to arrive in France in early October with a price of 649 euros . The smartphone is thus placed in direct competition with high-end smartphones with Android, and it is also very close to the first prize of an iPhone 6.