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<li>] <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/22/jonathan-kay-why-im-hooked-on-the-clunky-new-blackberry-passport-the-worlds-first-male-gendered-smartphone/?linkId=10173127" target="_blank">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/22/jonathan-kay-why-im-hooked-on-the-clunky-new-blackberry-passport-the-worlds-first-male-gendered-smartphone/?linkId=10173127</a></li>
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<p>Nice article, less technical detail and more real life use case examples. journalist and iphone user reviews Blackberries new Passport. After 4 weeks of reviewing he puts his iphone in a drawer and is now rocking the Passport as his daily driver.</p>
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<p>By now, the technical features of the Passport are well known to gadget aficionados: ... most importantly, a revolutionary three-row iteration of the famous, physical Blackberry keyboard, featuring well-spaced notably oversized keys.</p>
<p><strong>REACTIONS</strong> Even seasoned Blackberry fans are shocked by the layout when they first see it. Numerous strangers have approached me to ask about the device. They are always men. The women I&rsquo;ve shown the Passport to seem vaguely horrified by the thing</p>
<p><strong>OS 10.3</strong> - After a month with the Passport, it&rsquo;s become clear that the updated Blackberry OS 10.3, combined with the enhanced speed and image-capture capabilities of the Passport&rsquo;s Qualcomm processor, yield a machine that feels as fast as my iPhone 5 for just about every common smartphone task &mdash; including web- and Twitter-surfing on the Passport&rsquo;s massive, beautifully detailed screen. I did get some lag when I used some of the advanced camera features, but this was compensated for by excellent, sometimes even artistic, photo quality.</p>
<p><strong>USING</strong> - Because of its radically different form, the Blackberry Passport alters the very idea of a Smartphone in a manner that must be termed existential. With my iPhone, I&rsquo;d gotten used to lazily holding it in my right hand, casually swiping through tweets and emails with my thumb as I drank coffee with my left. The Passport, on the other hand, demands the commitment of two hands, because (in my case, at least) the right thumb can&rsquo;t get past the T button. That sounds like a drawback, and it certainly feels like one when, say, you&rsquo;re using an umbrella or trying to keep a door open for someone in an office building lobby. But it also made me less tempted to use the Passport at times when a person really, really shouldn&rsquo;t be using a Smartphone &mdash; such as when you&rsquo;re stuck in traffic.</p>
<p>The massive keyboard, once you learn to use it properly (it takes a few weeks to really get your fingers up to speed on the new button size), has been a game-changer for my work. I&rsquo;ve written whole articles on the Passport, something I never used to do with the iPhone or even the Q10.</p>
<p>The touch-sensitive sweep-scrolling feature built into the keyboard itself is a brilliant technological innovation, since it allows you to maximize the amount of time your fingers are positioned on the keys: I found this feature to be especially useful with Twitter, when I was trying to micro-edit Tweets in order to correct syntax or reduce character count &mdash; an often frustrating experience with any smartphone. On the Passport, I was able to lightly double-tap the keyboard, enter cursor-control mode, float the cursor surgically into exactly the correct spot with my thumb never leaving the keyboard, then lightly double-tap again to resume editing.</p>
<p><strong>SIZE</strong> So to state the obvious: This business-oriented phone is hardly the ideal phone for, say, the beach or hiking trail.</p>
<p><strong>CONCLUSIONS</strong> As for me, I&rsquo;m hooked. The iPhone remains in its drawer. The Passport has become my everyday device. For a user who sees a Smartphone as something primarily designed for banging out short-to-medium length email, interacting on social media, taking and sharing family photos, and reading long-form content on the web, it&rsquo;s the best machine I&rsquo;ve ever owned.</p>
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