BlackBerry takes a different Smartphone route with Passport in India

BlackBerry has come out of the wild and announced its peculiar looking Passport smartphone for the Indian market. Innovation hasn’t really been the order of day in the mobile space lately, most of the brands focusing on enhancing their products via hardware upgradations. And this is where BlackBerry is now trying something that’s really not part of any manufacturers playbook, atleast for now. Passport was globally announced last week and now makes way to the Indian shores, available for pre-order on Amazon.in and at BlackBerry stores from today up to October 10, bundled with gift card worth Rs 5000. Once the pre-booking is done and dusted, you'll be able to buy the Passport for Rs 49,990.

So how is Passport any different from the existing set of BB devices? For starters, the phone is not rectangular-shaped, instead you’ll find the device squarely shaped that fits in perfectly inside your pocket, unlike most of the smartphones or phablets around. Then BB continues to offer the dual QWERTY along with touch option to its consumers that nobody else has managed to prolong in this touch-experience era. It’s not the lightest devices around at 194 grams and heavily built at 9.3-mm thickness, at a time when slim figure has become talk of the town.

BlackBerry Passport comes with a 4.5 inch fairly bright display at 1440x1440 pixels and offering Corning Glass 3 protection. It’s running on the BB 10.3 platform and packs a quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU with 3 GB RAM and offering 32 GB expandable memory. It’s fitted with a 13 MP rear snapper and a 2 MP front camera but what’s the selling point for a BB device is its secured processes and email-friendly set-up. The phone’s power gets well supported by a 3450 mAh battery which has never been a concern for BB users over the years. Much like the Q10, the Passport is aimed at business consumers and anyone who's been bored out by the familiar shape and size game.