12/16/2014 UPDATE
When you’re right, you’re right. FOX has declared this one of the biggest flops of the year.
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My first thought when I saw the picture was “God, that is ugly.”
Add in the fact that it’s square design will make it hard to stuff in your jeans pocket.
From a usability perspective it would seem that having the keyboard scrunched down at the bottom would make it very hard to use since your hands are way down below the center of gravity. I’d constantly be afraid of it flipping out of my hands and landing on all that glass.
Besides, do we really think many people are going to choose this instead of the i6 over a measly $50?
If you want to buy a square-screened smartphone for less that most competing flagship handsets, you’re in luck: The BlackBerry Passport is expected to start at $599 off-contract when it launches this week. That’s less expensive than the new Apple iPhone 6 base model which starts at $650 at full-price and rises by $100 for a larger display or more storage.
The move is meant to spark interest in the new [company]BlackBerry[/company]. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Monday, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said “I figure that to try to get the market interested, we’re going to start a little lower than that.”
Chen is spot-on in his assessment as there has been practically no interest in the company’s handsets of late. BlackBerry has watched its once dominant market share evaporate into vapor as phones running [company]Apple[/company] iOS, [company]Google[/company] Android and [company]Microsoft[/company] Windows Phone have taken over. BlackBerry…
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