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I never understood how Blackberry hardware designers can be so bad. I'm glad they realized that the keyboard is where the Blackberry shines but, a square design

• Spearchucker 12y ago
  The keyboard doubles as a track pad. I imagine the phone will shine when reading content in landscape mode, and scrolling using the track pad. Supposedly works well for lefties too. I understand that the BlackBerry displays around 66 lines of text, compared with the iPhones 31-odd. I'd like very much to play with one before I wrote the device off. Given that I use my phone primarily for reading this could find a niche. There's a pretty decent cursory review on The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/blackberry_passport_first_look/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/blackberry_passport_...
  • Tloewald 12y ago
    No: 66 characters per line vs 31 for the iphone [in portrait mode] [before the new models came out] Failing to compete with last year's devices is not the path to victory. The register is the most positive writeup I've seen, and the headline is "it's bonkers". E.g. They like the trackpad keyboard for handling a large display without using both hands compared with Apple's "reachability", but you have to use both hands. So where's the advantage.
    • shyn3 12y ago
      Comparing apples to oranges here. This is a portrait mode device for people who like to read content. If you want to compare landscape you would compare iPhone 6 to Z30, and well, the Z30 has a better reading surface.
• Kluny 12y ago
  They used to be industry leaders. I don't know what happened.
  • r00fus 12y ago
    I think, neither did they.