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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
by 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 agoNo: 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 agoComparing 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.