In a world overrun with similarly specced and styled smartphones, BlackBerry dares to rage against the homogeneity with the BlackBerry Passport. And now Australians can decide if it's a battle worth fighting.
BlackBerry today announced that the Passport – a smartphone with rather, er, unique charms – is now available to order in Australia.
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The Passport will certainly get you noticed. Taking its inspiration from actual passports, the device features a 4.5-inch square 1,440 x 1,440 resolution screen, which has it looking unlike any other smartphone.
Charging in the office could be a thing of the past, with the Passport's 3450 mAh battery unmatched in the smartphone and phablet arena, while access to the Amazon App Store and BlackBerry World should provide a decent though not exactly outstanding app selection.
Powered by a quad-core 2.2 GHz processor with 3GB RAM, the Passport also boasts a 13MP rear camera with optical image stabilisation – perfect for capturing any incriminating office shenanigans – and 32GB of on board storage.
The BlackBerry Passport is certainly an interesting piece of kit, but whether it will be snapped up in place of an iPhone 6 or Galaxy Note 4 remains to be seen. We have our doubts. For now we're putting it next to the Galaxy Note Edge, in the category marked 'brave'.
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