By akademiotoelektronik, 11/09/2022

Handing: Blackberry Passport

As you know, Blackberry has just formalized the arrival of its new smartphone, the passport which, despite this impression of fairly imposing size, really makes the size of a passport.

With a design and a screen completely different from what the competition offers, Blackberry has made the bet to speak essentially only to professionals.Also, we find a physical keyboard to the delight of some.

For the characteristics, I redirect you to the announcement of the product you will find here.

When you discover the product for the first time, you cannot not be surprised with the size of the BlackBerry Passport, the form-factor is completely atypical compared to what the competition offers but also BlackBerry so far.Yes, Blackberry offers smartphones with a square screen for a long time but the general design remained a rectangle.With the passport, we have a general design at the edge of the square.Speaking of design, he is very sober and very professional.The finish is there and even if we do not find the leather back of the fire Blackberry Bold 9000, I appreciate the Soft-Touch coating of the Passport.On the other hand, with the size of the product, you can imagine that it will not slip easily into the pocket before jeans, especially if you wear slims.But as the Canadian brand targets the market for professionals as a suit then ...

Speaking of handling, you will have to get used to holding the passport at the keyboard and not at the screen level otherwise your hands will be found in a position that is too high compared to the keyboard so that you will have to demonstrate thatsome contortionist skills of the hands.The downside is that we hold the smartphone from below and I admit that this is not the more reassuring to avoid falls or other.I remind you, the passport is not for everyone so try it before buying it.

As for the screen, we can say whatever you want but one of the things that first struck me was the reading comfort and this is on a web page or aOffice document.Indeed, on a 16/9 or 16/10 screen, when it is in portrait mode, it is often not wide enough, and in landscape mode, it is not as high.So, to my surprise, I played much less with the scrolling of the page.

On the performance side, I did not find benchmarks or others but with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, you can imagine that the product must be quite swift, especially that BlackBerry has been able to optimize its OS, BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3, with the hardware of the passport.Ditto for autonomy, it has only been a few days since I have it but the 3450mAh of the battery are more than appreciable.

As for Blackberry 10 OS 10.3, it's still as pleasant to use and very practical.Unlike an iOS or Android where we will be tempted to have fun, the blackberry bone quite easily allows to remain productive, perhaps also because there are fewer applications (yes 😛 I trolle a little) todelight.Be careful, there is something to do in the BlackBerry World but it is clearly below that what iOS, Android and even Windows Phone offers.Suddenly, it makes me think that Blackberry has updated its Android runtime to be compatible with Android 4.X, and to celebrate this, BlackBerry signed a partnership with Amazon to offer its Android appstore on the Passport.I have already tried some applications like Candy Crush Saga, it works pretty well but we are far from the fluidity that we can have on a native Android device.

Keyboard side, as you can imagine, it works well, very well even.On the other hand, you will notice that you no longer have an optical trackpad or drop/hang up, return or options as it was with the more classic blackberry.Well, many of these functions are now accessible with the touch screen but above all, the keyboard is tactile and can work like the optical trackpad.One of the concrete examples is to tap anywhere on the keyboard, which will have the consequence of activating the magnifying glass and sliding your finger to the left or right on the keyboard, you can move the seizure cursor.Ditto for the shortcuts which had appeared on the virtual keyboard of the Z series of Blackberry.When you type a word, a gesture up from the physical keyboard below the shortcut that appeared on the screen and you will select the word in shortcut.Practice.

In the end and to my surprise, the BlackBerry Passport is pleasant to use and as always, the physical keyboard clearly helps to remain more productive.Now, despite the multimedia possibilities, the Passport is not for everyone and if you choose it, you will know how to know.

As you know, Blackberry has just formalized the arrival of its new smartphone, the passport which, despite this impression of fairly imposing size, really makes the size of a passport.

With a design and a screen completely different from what the competition offers, Blackberry has made the bet to speak essentially only to professionals.Also, we find a physical keyboard to the delight of some.

For the characteristics, I redirect you to the announcement of the product you will find here.

When you discover the product for the first time, you cannot not be surprised with the size of the BlackBerry Passport, the form-factor is completely atypical compared to what the competition offers but also BlackBerry so far.Yes, Blackberry offers smartphones with a square screen for a long time but the general design remained a rectangle.With the passport, we have a general design at the edge of the square.Speaking of design, he is very sober and very professional.The finish is there and even if we do not find the leather back of the fire Blackberry Bold 9000, I appreciate the Soft-Touch coating of the Passport.On the other hand, with the size of the product, you can imagine that it will not slip easily into the pocket before jeans, especially if you wear slims.But as the Canadian brand targets the market for professionals as a suit then ...

Speaking of handling, you will have to get used to holding the passport at the keyboard and not at the screen level otherwise your hands will be found in a position that is too high compared to the keyboard so that you will have to demonstrate thatsome contortionist skills of the hands.The downside is that we hold the smartphone from below and I admit that this is not the more reassuring to avoid falls or other.I remind you, the passport is not for everyone so try it before buying it.

As for the screen, we can say whatever you want but one of the things that first struck me was the reading comfort and this is on a web page or aOffice document.Indeed, on a 16/9 or 16/10 screen, when it is in portrait mode, it is often not wide enough, and in landscape mode, it is not as high.So, to my surprise, I played much less with the scrolling of the page.

On the performance side, I did not find benchmarks or others but with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, you can imagine that the product must be quite swift, especially that BlackBerry has been able to optimize its OS, BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3, with the hardware of the passport.Ditto for autonomy, it has only been a few days since I have it but the 3450mAh of the battery are more than appreciable.

As for Blackberry 10 OS 10.3, it's still as pleasant to use and very practical.Unlike an iOS or Android where we will be tempted to have fun, the blackberry bone quite easily allows to remain productive, perhaps also because there are fewer applications (yes 😛 I trolle a little) todelight.Be careful, there is something to do in the BlackBerry World but it is clearly below that what iOS, Android and even Windows Phone offers.Suddenly, it makes me think that Blackberry has updated its Android runtime to be compatible with Android 4.X, and to celebrate this, BlackBerry signed a partnership with Amazon to offer its Android appstore on the Passport.I have already tried some applications like Candy Crush Saga, it works pretty well but we are far from the fluidity that we can have on a native Android device.

Keyboard side, as you can imagine, it works well, very well even.On the other hand, you will notice that you no longer have an optical trackpad or drop/hang up, return or options as it was with the more classic blackberry.Well, many of these functions are now accessible with the touch screen but above all, the keyboard is tactile and can work like the optical trackpad.One of the concrete examples is to tap anywhere on the keyboard, which will have the consequence of activating the magnifying glass and sliding your finger to the left or right on the keyboard, you can move the seizure cursor.Ditto for the shortcuts which had appeared on the virtual keyboard of the Z series of Blackberry.When you type a word, a gesture up from the physical keyboard below the shortcut that appeared on the screen and you will select the word in shortcut.Practice.

In the end and to my surprise, the BlackBerry Passport is pleasant to use and as always, the physical keyboard clearly helps to remain more productive.Now, despite the multimedia possibilities, the Passport is not for everyone and if you choose it, you will know how to know.