I don’t think the BlackBerry Passport will help me type faster than on a BlackBerry Z30, Z10, Z3 or the iPhone 5S, which also has a very good predictive touchscreen keyboard, but the Passport’s innovative keyboard is definitely more accurate.
Other old friends I was glad to see were BlackBerry’s keyboard shortcuts. T went to the top of the mailbox, B to the bottom, R went to reply mode and F to forward and so on. And of course speed dial directly from the keyboard with 25 or so possible speed dial entries.