The New BlackBerry Passport, Price and Everything You Need To Know

For those who think blackberry is dead and gone or probably sleeping you need to see this. The BlackBerry Passport’s revolutionary new keyboard brings innovation to input with a responsive touch surface like a trackpad that lets you perform many touch functions directly on the keyboard. You can scroll web pages, flick to type or slide along the keys to move the cursor, leaving the full screen space for viewing.

The BlackBerry Passport is official, square, and soon to be getting a global release. Leaked eons ago as the “BlackBerry Windermere”, the Passport, as it’s now officially known, was outed by John Chen at BlackBerry’s recent earnings call. The phone is an odd beast, ditching conventional design for something… well, a bit different (it's the one in the middle).

Apple has attempted something similar with its iPhone 6 Plus, which has the largest battery ever installed inside one of the company’s smartphones. And like Apple, BlackBerry controls both the hardware and software of its mobile products, meaning things can be very finely tuned for optimum performance and excellent power efficiency. And for us –– as well as many of you –– this could be a HUGE deal.

The BlackBerry Passport is odd enough to stand out from the crowd and powerful enough to match anything from Android and iOS, at least for the time being. But where we think BlackBerry is going to make a lot of friends with this device is the battery – the Passport's is HUGE. And this is significant because A LOT of people consider battery life more important than OS, display AND things like what type of CPU the handset uses.
The only question now is whether anyone will care? We'd argue, YES, they will! Just look online –– there’s a small, but very vocal bunch of people that are positively frothing at the mouth about the prospect of getting their paws on the BlackBerry Passport once it launches later on this quarter. And this is pretty easy to understand when you look at what the handset represents, because it is not just a comeback device, not entirely, anyway. No, the BlackBerry Passport is just about the most exciting handset BlackBerry has ever produced; the fact that it comes at a time when the company’s future is in question just serves as a means of raising the stakes.
"We set out to create a smartphone that would break some cherished rules in order to set a new bar for real productivity," reads the post, "BlackBerry Passport’s keyboard will show there is an easier way to do more."

A key point is that the phystical keyboard is also touch-sensitive, something we've heard before - but it means you can use it like a trackpad to control on-screen actions. That apparently includes swiping to navigate web pages, app interfaces and emails. You can use this to scroll or precisely place a text cursor.

"With rows of touch-sensitive physical keys, BlackBerry Passport combines the efficiency of tactile typing with touchscreen-like navigation to deliver on that productivity promise."

"You’ll be able to read documents faster, as well as keep your fingers close to the keys, ready to type."

BlackBerry also included a bullet-point list of features and advantages:

• Faster scrolling: You can use the keyboard to swipe up and down to scroll on long lists in a document or on a browser page, keeping your fingers off the screen and focused on what’s happening.

• More intuitive cursor control and text selection: This is a classic BlackBerry productivity enhancement reinvented for the Passport. Double-tap the keyboard, then drag your finger across the keyboard to drop the cursor at precisely the right point. Or select the text just as you would on an older BlackBerry: hold the SHIFT key while dragging your finger across the keyboard to extend a selection.

• Smart, contextual virtual keys: The Passport’s QWERTY 3-row keyboard creates a clean-looking, right-sized layout. There is also a virtual 4th row on-screen that smartly shifts depending on context. So if you’re typing a password on-screen, the 4th row would automatically include numbers and symbols commonly used in passwords. If you’re typing an e-mail, the ‘@’ symbol will be displayed, and when surfing the Web, the colon and backslash characters needed to type in a URL will be displayed. Like I said, smart! With a little practice, most Passport users should find themselves typing faster than ever before.

• Flick to type: Stuck on a word? BlackBerry 10’s next word suggestion feature learns from you to give you smart, personalized choice of words you’re likely to type. You then just flick up to complete the word.

• Easier delete: Made a mistake? No problem, just swipe back (left) to Delete the last word, just like on our virtual keyboard!

• Entering an accented character? Hold the letter key down, and then lightly tap on the key to add the appropriate accent!

SPECIFICATIONS

General 
2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network - HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
4G Network-  LTE 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 LTE 700/800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100/2600 (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 20)
SIM -  Nano-SIM
Announced -  2014, June 
Status - Available. Released 2014, September

Body 
Dimensions - 128 x 90.3 x 9.3 mm (5.04 x 3.56 x 0.37 in)
Weight - 196 g (6.91 oz)
Keyboard - QWERTY - Capacitive touch 3-row BlackBerry keyboard

Display 
Type - IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size - 1440 x 1440 pixels, 4.5 inches (~453 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch - Yes, up to 10 fingers
Protection - Corning Gorilla Glass 3

Sound 
Alert types - Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker - Yes
3.5mm jack - Yes

Memory 
Card slot - microSD, up to 128 GB
Internal - 32 GB, 3 GB RAM

Data 
GPRS - Yes
EDGE - Yes
Speed HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, LE
NFC Yes
USB microUSB v2.0 (SlimPort) 

Camera 

Primary - 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, optical image stabilization, LED flash
Features - Geo-tagging, face detection, HDR
Video - 1080p@60fps
Secondary - 2 MP, 720p

Features
OS -  BlackBerry 10.3 OS
Chipset - Qualcomm MSM8974AA Snapdragon 801
CPU - Quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400
GPU - Adreno 330
Sensors - Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging - SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, BBM 6
Browser - HTML5
Radio -  FM radio with RDS
GPS - Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
Java - Yes, MIDP 2.1

Colors - Black, White
- BlackBerry Assistant
- BlackBerry maps
- Organizer
- Document viewer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Video editor
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
- DivX/XviD/MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input

Battery 
Non-removable Li-Ion 3450 mAh battery
Stand-by: Up to 432 h (2G) / Up to 444 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 18 h (2G) / Up to 23 h (3G)
Music play: Up to 84 h 

Price

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How to Change Android Phones IMEI To Blackberry IMEI to Use Glo BIS

It’s no longer news that Android consumes data more than 8 times of what Blackberry would consume, so changing the IMEI number of your Android device to the IMEI number of a blackberry device will make your Android to be seen as a Blackberry, therefore you will be able to use Blackberry Subscription on your Android device, but as at the time of this post, only Glo Nigeria BIS works, as soon as other network like MTN, Etisalat and Airtel begin to work, I will keep you posted,

Meanwhile let’s begin but before we start you have to know this:

Also don't forget to back up your IMEI number (your Android has IMEI number, copy it down and keep it save place in case if you need to undo this process at a letter time) do a full backup via custom recovery before taking this steps.

For instance, Blackberry subscriptions only works on Blackberry device but changing the IMEI number of Android phones to that of Blackberry will enables users using MTN, GLO, ETISALAT, and Airtel network to use BB subscription on their Android phones.

Steps

1. Download Blackberry IMEI generator rar file from here to your computer
2. unrar/unzip it, you will see 3 .sys files, copy the three .sys file to a new folder on your desktop.
3. Double-click on GIPv4.1 exe file and click Generate button.
4. Copy or write down the generated Blackberry IMEI number for later use.

How to change IMEI number of Single-SIM Android phones using Terminal Emulator.

1. Download and install Terminal Emulator to your Android phone, you can download it from here
2. Open it, type SU and press enter key to gain Superuser access
3. Then type this command and press enter key:

echo AT +EGMR=1,7,”IMEI_NUMBER”>/dev/pttycmd1

or

echo AT +EGMR=1*7*IMEI_1 >/dev/pttycmd1

How to change IMEI number of Double-SIM Android phones

Type this command:

echo AT +EGMR=1,10, “IMEI_NUMBER” >/dev/pttycmd1

Replace the IMEI_NUMBER with the Blackberry IMEI number you've just generate or any IMEI number you want and reboot your phone.

Please ensure you put a space between "AT" and "+" in the command, the procedures listed above works best on MTK (MediaTek) powered Android devices.

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How to Root Tecno R7 Without PC Using Frameroot in 3 Minutes

Before you root your Tecno R7, you should know the ugly side of rooting your smartphone and this simply means that it voids the 12-Months Warranty that comes with your smartphone. If you have rooted your Android in the past, then you should not be asking at this moment why rooting your Android. So let’s go straight to processes of rooting within 3 minutes without a PC

How to Root Tecno R7 Smartphone with Frameroot within 3 minutes
We are going to use Frameroot.
Frameroot is an android program that serves as a universal rooting program that is compatible for most android smartphones. Well, it’s tested and confirmed that apart from using Frameroot to root Phantom A plus, this software also roots the Tecno R7 Smartphone.

Don’t be scared, everyone can do this, you don’t need to give your hard earned money to any Engineer to do this for you, just follow these simple steps

To root your Tecno R7 Smartphone, simple follow these steps
1: First download Frameroot.apk and Unzip it before you install it

2: During installation select Barahir expliot, then within few seconds, you would be notified that Superuser have been installed.

3: Reboot your Android device to complete the rooting access.

Congratulations. Your Tecno R7 Smartphone now has a Root Access. And to confirm it you need another Apps, just download Root Checker and run it on your Android and if everything goes well, you will see a message like this.

 

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