After its Announcement last June in the USA, BlackBerry Passport finds it way to the Philippines with an astonishing new image and beefed up specs. General release last September and was able to penetrate new Continents with this new design.
While other smartphones made their phone design rectangular shaped, the BlackBerry Passport comes in a square box figure 5 inches by 3.5 inches and is .37 inches thin, goes with a wide-screen and comes with a built-in capacitive 3-line QWERTY keyboard. The 4.5 inch IPS LCD screen comes with a 1440 x 1440 pixel, 16M colors and is protected with a Corning Gorilla glass 3.
For the Network support, it supports 2G, 3G, and LTE with a nano sim slot. It has a built-in 32GB and 3GB RAM and has a micro SD slot that supports upto 128GB. For connectivity, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, NFC and a micro USB v2.0 slim slot.
The primary camera has a 13MP, Auto-focus, geo-tagging, face detection, HDR and a 1080p 60fps, and a secondary 2MP 720p camera.
The BlackBerry Passport uses its proprietary BlackBerry OS version 10.3 and has a built-in Qualcomm MSM8974AA Snapdragon 801 chipset, CPU Quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400, GPU Adreno 330, Sensors – Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass.
For messaging, SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, BBM 6 and with a HTML 5 browser. Now you can listen music with FM radio with RDS, and be guided on the road with its A-GPLS and GLONASS and a Java MIDP 2.1.
Black and White are the colors you can choose and for the power, battery is built-in non-removable 3,450Mah power!
Battery life standby time is 432 hours on 2G, or 444 hours on 3G. Talk time upto 18 hours on 2G and 23 hours on 3G or play continuous music for 84 hours.
I was a BlackBerry user since Corporate work made us use BlackBerry for fast and speedy emails. Right after my 4th Blackberry, when Z10 and Q10 was released, i already shifted to Android.
But with the amazing specs of this Passport, it makes me wonder if it is worth shifting back to Blackberry.
The BlackBerry Passport is available for SRP Php 35,790 and can be availed through postpaid plans with Globe and Smart for their existing Corporate clients only and offered to group accounts as well. The BlackBerry Passport is not available for individual subscription.
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