PRODUCTIVITY ‘in motion. For that BlackBerry has chosen the name Passport. The new device has more or less the same size as a passport: 12.8 cm x 9.3 cm, with a thickness of 9.3 mm, weight about 195 grams, it is almost twice the size of an iPhone 6, but in return the battery (built-in) by 3450 mAh provides up enviable: about 23 hours despite intensive use of the terminal.
The touchscreen LCD display 4.5 “with a resolution of 1440 x 1440 pixels, it is ideal for those who need to access, create or edit documents: Passport of each line displays up to 60 characters, 50% in most of smartphones Apple and Samsung in portrait mode. advantages are felt even while surfing the web – you almost feel like looking at the monitor of a PC – and when you use the maps. The concept is expressed by BlackBerry in ‘ invitation sent to insiders before the official presentation in London, Dubai and Toronto: “See the bigger picture,” he was referring, of course, to the “broader view” offered by Passport, which also extends to viewing images taken with the camera rear (13-megapixel) and front (2 megapixel).
The return to the keyboard “QWERTY” physical completed by a virtual line “touch” and intelligent, showing the characters from time to time required for the operation that is taking place, it is a pleasant surprise: the keys arranged three rows, are well spaced out and typing – need two hands – is accurate. The surprise “invisible” is that the whole keyboard is touch sensitive and can be used like a trackpad to move around within a document, a web page or – for example – the menu settings, simply touch the buttons up or down, left or right. This is a first, which combined with the predictive writing leads to surprising results. You no longer need to tap the terms suggested by the device to enter them in the text. It can be “run” in the document the word you want by touching up the portion of the keyboard which is located underneath. Another “bonus” is not indifferent to the language setting: they can choose three to use contemporary.
The impression of having to deal with a phablet, despite the not exaggerated its size (the Passport is easily stored in the inside pocket of a jacket and go without problems in the pants), is enhanced by the power of the device: the processor is a Quad Core Snapdragon 801 2.2 mHz, the Ram 3 GB (1 GB against the new iPhone 6), flash memory, expandable to 32 GB to 128 GB. This guarantees speed and fluidity to settle OS – the latest BlackBerry 10.3 – and allows the use of applications designed for professionals. As Nil, which allows doctors to see, even on the move, the TAC of their patients. And between one meeting and another space to recreation: Passport run without problems on the most popular games from Candy Crush Angry Bird, Cut The Rope 2 to
The selection of apps on the new BlackBerry device, has undoubtedly improved compared to the past. Resists, free, the fundamental Docs To Go, which allows you to create and manage documents in Word, Excel and Power Point fully compatible with Microsoft Office. And they appear, pre-installed, the most popular ones: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and dedicated to the world of work, Linkedin and Evernote. Still others can be installed by accessing the BlackBerry World, but the most interesting feature is the icon of the Amazon store, where you can download the Android app now compatible thanks to an agreement between the BlackBerry and the company headed by Jeff Bezos. Despite this missing some of the most popular apps on all definitely Instagram.
But it is not the market for consumer , to teenagers who use smartphone mainly for play and share photos and status on social networks, that CEO John Chen intends to address with this new devices. There must be a reason why Richard Brenson, founder and owner of the Virgin Group, one of the richest businessmen in the world according to Forbes magazine, recently told the Wall Street Journal : “I’m still very attached to my BlackBerry Curve, I can not do without it for its physical keyboard. I use it to send e-mail. ” The Curve, a smartphone of 2007 Branson’s testimony, combined with market research carried out in recent years, especially after the lack of success of the Z10, touchscreen device that was supposed to rival the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy, led the Canadian company to change course, it’s back to the old, with a physical keyboard, but strong technological innovations produced in recent years.
So the function Balance, which allows you to keep separate, in safety, environment Working from the personal, adding a new software, BlackBerry Blend, which allows you to take advantage of the power and content of the Passport on other devices, not necessarily BlackBerry, connected to the same wireless network (or via USB). Even in this case, the security is guaranteed: the data passing from one terminal to another is encrypted. And on tablet PCs and used to work in remote access no trace remains of the materials consulted. With the Passport, BlackBerry finally introduced an efficient “Virtual Assistant” – the equivalent of Siri for Apple – designed for those who have no time to lose: the most mundane requests about the weather conditions or the nearest restaurant, met thanks to the recognition of voice command, this new instrument combines unprecedented accuracy in research on the web. If you are looking for a DVD on Amazon, for example, the virtual assistant will not provide a list of results on Google, but will draw the object (or the desired content) within the specified site, eliminating an annoying step.
The BlackBerry Passport, ultimately, is a smartphone for many but certainly not for everyone. At first glance it is curious, strange, different, so being renamed on the web, ironically, the “tile”. The joking, however, goes to the first use. This is a device intended to last. Like the Curve that Richard Branson still holds in his jacket.
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