BlackBerry Passport

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The BlackBerry Passport is different, but in a good way. It's big, heavy and strange to behold, but it offers business users everything they need - an incredibly powerful keyboard, a great OS with BlackBerry and Android apps, a beautiful square screen, and powerful performance to match.

Digital Versus | Romain Thuret

The Passport was a successful gamble for BlackBerry. It may not be without fault and its shape is definitely not for everyone, but it provides an amazing experience for the niche it's targeting. The Passport just may be the worthy successor to the Bold 2.0 that we've been waiting for.

Know Your Mobile | Richard Goodwin

The Passport is a weird looking piece of tech, yes, and the keyboard does take a bit of getting used to, but, like all new ideas, once you've accustomed yourself to its ways you feel right at home banging out emails, editing documents and tweeting. Good work, BlackBerry!

IT PRO | Adam Shepherd, Khidr Suleman, Rene Millman

The Passport provides all the functionality you'd expect from a high-end device. It's got one of the best reputations for security in the business, and it's one of the few manufacturers still offering a physical keyboard. It may not be enough to pull BlackBerry's hardware business back from the brink, but it's a great device that's likely to be a hit with fans.

Mobile Syrup | Daniel Bader

The BlackBerry Passport gets most parts of the hardware right. Unfortunately, by bundling the Amazon Appstore, BlackBerry exposes its uneasy relationship between business and consumer markets, appeasing none.

The Next Web | Ben Woods

In many ways, the Passport is a great smartphone, but its features, design choices and out-of-the-box services mean it'll only ever really appeal to a small section of the market.

What Mobile | Saqib Shah

If you're a business user, BlackBerry has just delivered the phone of your dreams in terms of functionality. For everyone else, the BlackBerry Passport is far too impractical and productivity-oriented to use on a daily basis.

phoneArena | John V.

Sorry Passport, you tried desperately to beat out these all-touch smartphones, but at the end of the day, your poorly laid out keyboard and antiquated software experience validates you're just not ready for the big leagues.

Gadgets Now | Anupam Saxena

The BlackBerry Passport is the most powerful phone the company has ever made. The phone boasts of solid build quality, an excellent display and a decent camera in addition to industry leading communication and security features. However, it's not without flaws. The keyboard takes a lot of time to get used to and still doesn't offer a fluid and fast typing experience. The phone is too wide for comfort and feels awkward to use.

Digital Trends | Ted Kritsonis

BlackBerry's Passport is a fantastic phone for spreadsheets and work thanks to its keyboard and square screen, but can't compete when it comes to media and apps.

Recombu | Alex Todd

We want to like the offering made by the Passport, BlackBerry just hasn't made that easy to do.

TechnoBuffalo | Todd Haselton

It's not perfect, but it's far better than BlackBerry's last crop of phones. The camera is pretty solid, the battery life is great, and the screen is sharp. If you want a BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Passport is a solid choice.

Mobile Choice

I really fail to see how BlackBerry can shift enough units to turn a profit. I wanted to like the BlackBerry Passport. I really wanted to prove the naysayers wrong and discover a phone which is successfully different, but beneath the bold new suit live the same old problems.

Register Hardware | Andrew Orlowski

BlackBerry returns with an highly unusual design that's uncompromisingly aimed at two groups: enterprise users and those looking for powerful complementary "second phone". Indeed, its assertive shape and bulk will repel all but the determined.

Australian PC World | Tony Ibrahim

The BlackBerry Passport is the Fort Knox of smartphones. Only those with for-their-eyes-only information will value its proficient security, though we'd recommend the BlackBerry Z30 in those cases. The Passport does few things well, but it is let down by doing too many things not well enough.

Brighthand | Grant Hatchimonji

BlackBerry's intentions with the Passport were good. It wanted to create something groundbreaking in spite of multiple inherent risks, and that's an approach that is rarely seen in the world of smartphones today.

V3 | Alastair Stevenson

For existing BlackBerry customers with a BES, the Passport is the most advanced and interesting BlackBerry handset currently available. However, with most of its new features requiring BES or having parallels in alternative platforms, there's little here to entice non-BlackBerry business customers.

ITProPortal | Sandra Vogel

BlackBerry has given itself an uphill struggle in producing a handset which so squarely bucks the handset trend, and in deciding to support Android but not the full Play store. BlackBerry Blend may be enough to sway some business users, but the pull for non-professionals is more difficult to understand.

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Trusted Reviews | Michael Sawh

The BlackBerry Passport tries to be different but doesn't quite get it right. As a result this is not the smartphone serious business professionals should consider. There are far too many problems to recommend the Passport.

LAPTOP | Mark Spoonauer

The BlackBerry Passport fits more content on its wide screen than the competition and boasts awesome battery life, but the design is just too clunky and awkward.