Trade Your iPhone for BlackBerry Passport And Get $550
BlackBerry is offering to pay iPhone users as much as $550 to switch to a new BlackBerry Passport. Starting in December, customers who trade in an iPhone for the Passport will get as much as $400 back depending on their Apple smartphone’s model and condition, plus a $150 prepaid gift card, BlackBerry said yesterday in a statement. The promotion is only available in North America and lasts until Feb. 1.
BlackBerry is focusing on selling to business and government users. It brought back the physical keyboard and is touting the ease of working on the Passport’s wide screen.
The deal is part of a of holiday promotions BlackBerry announced including a Black Friday sale, a new financing program and red and white Passport phones.
Specifications Blackberry Passport
Size
- Height 128 mm / 5.04 in
- Width 90. mm / .56 in
- Depth 9. mm / 0.6 in
Weight: 196g / 6.91 ozNavigation
Keyboard: Capacitive touch -row BlackBerry Keyboard, featuring contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalised learning engine that gets to know the way you type
Display Resolution:
- 1440 x 1440 resolution
- 24-bit colour depth
- 4.5" diagonal
- 1:1 aspect ratio
Operating system: BlackBerry 10 OS
Desktop software:
- BlackBerry Blend software to bring the power of your BlackBerry smartphone to your computer and tablet
- BlackBerry Link software for your computer to enable synchronization of data and media
Processor:
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 with 2.2GHz Quad-Core CPUs (MSM8974-AA)
- Adreno 0, 450MHz GPU
- GB RAM
- 2 GB Flash
Expandable memory: Removable microSD memory card - slot located under back cover (Up to 128 GB)
USB Ports: USB 2.0 high speed port-allows charging and data synchronization of the device with a USB cable
Power Battery: 450mAH integrated non-removable battery
Battery Life:
- Up to 14 hours GSM talk time
- Up to 14.5 days GSM standby time
- Up to 24 hours UMTS talk time
- Up to 14.5 days UMTS standby time
- Up to 91 hours audio playback
- Up to 11 hours video playback
- 1 megapixel auto-focus camera
- Optical image stabilization (OIS)
- 5-element f2.0 lens
- Back Side Illumination
- LED flash, continuous and touch to focus, image stabilization
- 5x digital zoom
- 6DOF video stabilization
- 1080p HD video recording at 60fps
- 2MP fixed-focus
- Image and video stabilization
- x digital zoom
- 720p HD video recording
Multimedia Image formats: BMP, WBMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, SGI, TGA
Audio & video formats: GP, GP2, M4A, M4V, MOV, MP4, MKV, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP, MKA, AAC, AMR, F4V, WAV, MP2PS, MP2TS, AWB, OGG, FLAC, VOBSUB
Audio & video encoding/decoding: H.264, MPEG-4, H.26, AAC-LC, AAC+, eAAC, MP, PCM, Xvid, AMR-NB, WMA 9/10, WMA10 professional, WMA-LL, VC-1, VP6, SPARK, PCM, MPEG-2, MJPEG (mov), AC-, AMR-WB, QCELP, FLAC, VOBSUB, VORBIS
Pre-loaded apps:
- Multimedia: Music, Videos, Pictures, Camera, Picture Editor, Story Maker
- Productivity: BlackBerry Hub (Email and Social Messaging), Universal Search, Calendar, Contacts, Browser, Text Messaging, Clock, Calculator, Documents To Go, Print To Go, File Manager, Adobe Reader, BlackBerry Remember (memos /tasks)
- Other: Phone, BBM (Voice and Video), BlackBerry World, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Games, YouTube, Maps/Navigation, Smart Tags (NFC), Setup, Help
Security: Password protection, screen lock, and sleep mode
Voice input/output:
- Hands-free headset capable
- Bluetooth headset capable
- Integrated hands-free speakerphone
- Stereo
- FD-LTE 1, 2, , 4, 5, 7, 8, 1, 17, 20 (2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/900/700/700/800 MHz)
- HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz)
- Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
- 802.11 b/g/n for 2.4GHz
- 802.11 a/n for 5GHz
- 802.11 ac for 5GHz
- 4G Mobile Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Miracast
FM Radio: FM Radio receive (headset as antenna)
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE)
GPS:- Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS
- Preloaded with BlackBerry Maps application and for e911 capabilities
- Support for User Plane and Control Plane GPS
NFC: BlackBerry Tag with NFC technology enables communication between BlackBerry smartphones and other NFC-enabled devices with a tapSensors
Advanced Sensors:
- Accelerometer
- Magnetometer
- Gyroscope
- Time of Flight (ToF)
- Ambient light
- BlackBerry Screen Reader, for customers with vision loss BlackBerry Magnify, for customers with partial vision Face-to-face video chat with BBM Video Voice Control for sending messages, placing calls, search and more Adjustable screen brightness, scalable fonts Closed Captioning Support
- Rated for Hearing Aids: M4
