Lovers of the physical keyboard on mobiles are in luck. The telephone company Vodafone has just announced the availability of the new BlackBerry Passport in Spain. The business customers of Vodafone can now purchase this smartphone US company BlackBerry through the usual channels for a down payment of zero euros with the tariff Red Pro. Starting next week, users will also be able to purchase the BlackBerry Passport through the Vodafone business online store (http://www.vodafone.es/empresas/es/ ).
The conditions for acquiring the BlackBerry Passport with Vodafone (only available through the company mode) require the customer to finance the purchase of the device with an initial payment of zero euros and a monthly fee of 15 euros per month. In addition, the client must also adhere to the Red Pro rate, which includes 3 GigaBytes of data along with unlimited calls and SMS messages for a price of 39 euros per month. In total, to buy the BlackBerry Passport with Vodafone through a company you have to pay a total of54 euros per month for 24 months of permanence with Vodafone and 18 months of permanence with the chosen rate (in this case, the Red Pro rate). Keep in mind that these prices do not include VAT (the Red Pro rate, for example, costs a total of 47.19 euros per month including VAT).
The BlackBerry Passport is, in short, BlackBerry's new bet to gain a foothold in the current mobile phone market. The BlackBerry Passport is presented with a large dimensions of 128 x 90.3 x 9.3 millimeters and a practically square shape on the screen. In fact, this square touch screen has a size of 4.5 inches which, due to its peculiar shape, offers a resolution of 1,440 x 1,440 pixels. The physical keyboard (type QWERTY) incorporating this smartphone is primarily oriented towards people who use the phone for use in the workplace, and henceVodafone only distributes this terminal to Vodafone Business users.
As regards the technical specifications, the BlackBerry Passport incorporates a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 of four cores operating at 2.26 GHz clock rate with a memory RAM of 3 gigabytes. The internal storage capacity is 32 GigaBytes expandable by means of an external microSD memory card of up to a maximum of 128 GigaBytes. The operating system installed as standard in this mobile corresponds to BlackBerry OS in its version of BlackBerry OS 10.3. The battery has a capacity of3,450 mAh, which translates into a range of up to 23 hours talk time and up to 444 hours standby.
In the coming days we will know the exact details of the distribution of BlackBerry Passport from Vodafone, since it is assumed that its availability will be extended to all rates Red Pro.
