BlackBerry bet on the old tradition of smartphone keyboard in Passport

It is a smartphone with a physical keyboard and a square screen, 4.5-inch high resolution (1440 x 1440 pixels). Use BlackBerry 10 with the 10.3 version to be ready in the coming months.


Passport BlackBerry was showing his new smartphone with keyboard, which goes on sale in September. Although he made no official release, John Chen (company director) did a sort of informal presentation late last month, but did not elaborate; BlackBerry last week was publishing more information about the team on its official blog.

It's a rare phone: it has physical keyboard, something unusual these days-and a square screen, 4.5-inch high resolution (1440 x 1440 pixels). And use BlackBerry 10, of course, with version 10.3 to be ready in the coming months, which improves compatibility with Android and adds the Amazon app store. The company does not yet confirmed the rest of the hardware, although some rumors suggest a quad-core chip, 3GB of RAM and a battery of 3850 mAh. 

The approximate size is a passport-hence its name and BlackBerry tries to defend him one of his strengths (the keyboard) but giving a spin to avoid falling into the traditional team (which also will, by year-end as BlackBerry Classic, it's a Bold with BB10). 

How to get this smartphone with square screen, a change from the rectangle to which we have become accustomed in recent years, and it reminds me of two phones: the LG Optimus Vu, with 5-inch screen and 4:3 (the same relationship between height and width than a traditional monitor), which according to LG allowed to view a Web page in full screen; in fact, the screen resolution was 1024 x 768 pixels, the standard of the time (2012) for the Web. The other is older: it is a Nokia E61, great even for its time (2005) but with a very comfortable keyboard. 

With respect to the keyboard, but maintains the physical keys further transforms the entire keyboard on a touch sensitive surface. This allows the keyboard three lines as a sort of touchpad, not having to lift your fingers and touch the touch screen; sliding your finger over the keys navigate a page scroll as if done by touching the screen; the same to change the cursor position and not to cover the text when it is edited. In the latter how it implenta Windows Phone seems more efficient: the cursor is on the side of the finger, so that you never lose sight of. 

If the operation required, the hardware keyboard are added on-screen options (symbols, etc.). And the gestures on the keyboard allow you to choose a word suggested by the predictive text to correct another, and so on.

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