The
BlackBerry Passport is a BlackBerry 10 phablet developed by BlackBerry Limited. Officially released on September 24, 2014, the Passport is inspired by its namesake
and incorporates features designed to make the device attractive to
enterprise users, such as a unique square-shaped display measuring 4.5
inches diagonally, along with a physical keyboard that also doubles as a
touchpad.
Reception to the Passport was mixed; critics praised the quality of
the device's design, screen, and keyboard for meeting the company's
goals of creating a business-oriented device, along with an improved
application selection through the integration of Amazon's Android application store alongside BlackBerry's own store for native software.
Criticism of the Passport was focused primarily on its irregular form
factor in comparison to other phablets, making the device difficult to
carry and use one-handed due to its increased width, while its keyboard
was also panned for having an irregular layout in comparison to past
BlackBerry devices.