BlackBerry has confirmed rumours of the leaked ‘Windermere’
smartphone by revealing its latest addition to the BB fleet, the
Passport. Miles apart from the brown thing you wave at
airports in hopes of avoiding a cavity search, BB’s Passport is a
spanking new 4.5-in smartphone set for release this September.
The
device comes sporting a 1440 x 1440 (that’s right, a square) screen, a
quad-core Snapdragon processor, an Adreno 330 GPU and a generous 3 gigs
of memory. The instragram-shaped handset comes equipped
with the quintessential BlackBerry physical QWERTY keyboard – although
it’s been tuned down in size, now a mere three rows deep.
"Physical?!,"
we hear you cry, "is this the 90's?" Fear not, the Passport's keyboard
is fully capacitive, meaning the phone's touch-sensitivity flows
seamlessly from display to keypad. In other good BB news,
the Canadian company posted a net profit last quarter, signalling a
possible turnaround in its financial fortunes.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
BlackBerry announces Passport phone, coming September
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