Information and images have unveiled BlackBerry’s next smartphone as the BlackBerry Passport
The BlackBerry Passport is official, square, and soon to be getting a global release. Leaked eons ago as the “BlackBerry Windermere”, the Passport, as it’s now officially known, was outed by John Chen at BlackBerry’s recent earnings call. The phone is an odd beast, ditching conventional design for something… well, a bit different.
The only question now is whether anyone will care? We’d argue, YES, they will! Just look online, anywhere, there’s a small, but very vocal bunch of people that are positively frothing at the mouth about the prospect of getting their paws on the BlackBerry Passport once it launches later on this quarter.
The handset is odd enough to stand out from the crowd and powerful enough to match anything from Android and iOS, at least for the time being. But where we think BlackBerry is going to make a lot of friends with this device is the battery – the Passport’s is HUGE. And this is significant because A LOT of people consider battery life more important than OS, display AND things like what type of CPU the handset uses.
Just sayin’…
BlackBerry Passport Release Date
A month after the phones announcement, BlackBerry has now opened the registration process for those hungry for all the latest news and availability updates. From today you can pre-register to get all the latest news on BlackBerry products ahead of its release in early-Q4.
BlackBerry Passport Specs
The BlackBerry Passport uses a 4.5inch display with a 1440×1440 pixel resolution, which equates to 480 ppi. Under the hood there’s a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8974 quad-core chip. We don’t know precisely which chip just yet, but it does have an Adreno 330 GPU and 3GB of RAM, suggesting it is either a Snapdragon 800 or 801 setup.