[Davis Rayler]

So I saw this and I couldn't help it but to think about the Passport... I'm so interested in the form factor!!

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/1...hotos-sdc-2018

[krazyatom]

I am definitely going to pick that up!

[Davis Rayler]

It certainly looks Beautiful!

Posted with BlackBerry Passport SE via CB10

[Bla1ze]

It certainly looks Beautiful!

Posted with BlackBerry Passport SE via CB10

I dunno about beautiful. Looks interesting though and the fact it will be available to others opens plenty of options. BlackBerry Mobile could effectively build out a Passport-like device now if they wanted to especially since Google is also supporting the displays with new API's and developer options. They'd have to work out some keyboard, though, or just rely on a virtual keyboard.

[krazyatom]

It certainly looks Beautiful!

Posted with BlackBerry Passport SE via CB10

Samsung makes beautiful phone! Quality should be top notch.

[Trifon V]

so NOW it's hip to be square?

[The_Passporter]

It also looks like it would support a Passport form factor as far as screen ratio.
Things that make you go hmm...

[ppeters914]

It also looks like it would support a Passport form factor as far as screen ratio.
Things that make you go hmm...

Basically what Bla1ze said in Post #4 .

Hmm mom.........

[Davis Rayler]

This could only mean GOOD news for a Passport Android version, 2020 maybe?

Posted with BlackBerry Passport SE via CB10

[i_plod_an_dr_void]

This could only mean GOOD news for a Passport Android version, 2020 maybe?

Posted with BlackBerry Passport SE via CB10

LOL....so now samsung picked up? on the Blackberry Z20/20 phone/tablet concept (20/20 perfect eye sight) replacement for the Blackberry Playbook tablet first discussed back on BlackBerry's discussion boards before they closed way back when. Zte's Axon M been around for a year now (a little more conventional but still a fold open bigger screen).
(Has Blackberry finally flipped out?)

Roll it out as the re-launch of bb10? (dust off those playbook apps andupdate for bb10?)

[anon(10512033)]

The aspect ratio reminds me of the LG Vu series. Perhaps people can whine about letterboxed videos on another brand now.

[The_Passporter]

I dunno about beautiful. Looks interesting though and the fact it will be available to others opens plenty of options. BlackBerry Mobile could effectively build out a Passport-like device now if they wanted to especially since Google is also supporting the displays with new API's and developer options. They'd have to work out some keyboard, though, or just rely on a virtual keyboard.

What's that? A Passport/Android?
Oh boy! I'm waiting till the KEY4
Big and beautiful

[joeldf]

so NOW it's hip to be square?

New info on it lists a 4x3 screen (4.2x3, actually), so it's not square.

Can't really compare to a Passport and say "see, android can do 1:1", because it's not 1:1.

[the_boon]

No PKB? No go for me

[Smokeaire]

I started a thread on this Motorola Razr4 folding concept phone. Physical keyboard or not I would jump on this flip/folding phone.
Not sure how I feel about a tablet size foldable phone. Not at $1,000+ that's for sure. I guess time will tell.

[Blackberryphosphamide]

No PKB? No go for me

Agreed.

I'm also wondering if that screen would eventually show permanent signs of a fold. Even if it did have a PKB I'd be waiting a year to see how people got on with it with sustained use.

[Bla1ze]

New info on it lists a 4x3 screen (4.2x3, actually), so it's not square.

Can't really compare to a Passport and say "see, android can do 1:1", because it's not 1:1.

It's not really relevant to compare what was available then to what is available now. As I noted, Android updated their API's since then and are fully supporting foldables.



Still, even with that in play it'll be up to developers to produce functional UI elements. I'm having a hard time seeing how some apps would ever adpat to the format. Kind of like how Android tablets are now, even to this day, a lot of apps don't run properly.

Google supporting foldables is their effort to avoid that scenario but alas, it's still up to the developers to make it all work. :|

https://android-developers.googleblo...devsummit.html

[johnb_xp]

They should license the Work Wide tagline

[siung6]

wanted to post the same thing. it's not about pkb. it's the aspect ration. really wish for passport 2

[Emaderton3]

So screens on all sides . . . Can't drop this one at all!

[Smokeaire]

So screens on all sides . . . Can't drop this one at all!

I doubt the screen will crack, might scratch all to he'll.

[the_boon]

wanted to post the same thing. it's not about pkb. it's the aspect ration. really wish for passport 2

A Passport slab? Meh.

[joeldf]

A Passport slab? Meh.

A tablet. Call it.. The PlayBook...

Oh, wait...

[Emaderton3]

I doubt the screen will crack, might scratch all to he'll.

If you drop it? Has more vulnerable positions.

[Smokeaire]

If you drop it? Has more vulnerable positions.

I doubt the screen is glass. Probably a plastic film of some kind.