Actual impartial preview of the passport
- These guys are the most impartial I have found when it comes to reviews. So I tend to listen to them. They have previewed the passport and given an honest assessment. It has done better then I thought.
Have a read and to the fanatics, there are times when they take humorous digs but they do that with all devices.
BlackBerry Passport | TechRadar
Posted via the Android CrackBerry App!09-24-14 11:13 AMLike 5 - Thanks. I love impartial reviews, be they positive or negative where they simply look at "the facts".
I doubt I'll even bother with Techcrunch's review. Reading Darrell Etherington's smarmy review of the keynote as it unfolded tells you how biased he is.09-24-14 11:23 AMLike 0 - I doubt I'll even bother with Techcrunch's review. Reading Darrell Etherington's smarmy review of the keynote as it unfolded tells you how biased he is.
Its a decent pre-review I thought...09-24-14 11:28 AMLike 0 -
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Posted via the Android CrackBerry App!09-24-14 11:42 AMLike 0 -
- Engadget was okay, I didn't understand some of his closing paragraph though: "That said, I have plenty of reservations: I'm not sold on BlackBerry's solution to the phone's one-handed dilemma"
BlackBerry clearly designed the Passport as a two handed device (for the most part), not as a solution to the one handed problem.09-24-14 01:32 PMLike 0 - Yeah, it seems like the reviews have not taken the consideration of this model being geared towards business use. They are most definitely stuck in the popular slab box.
Posted via CB1009-24-14 01:45 PMLike 0 -
Posted via the Android CrackBerry App!09-24-14 03:55 PMLike 0 - Engadget was okay, I didn't understand some of his closing paragraph though: "That said, I have plenty of reservations: I'm not sold on BlackBerry's solution to the phone's one-handed dilemma"
BlackBerry clearly designed the Passport as a two handed device (for the most part), not as a solution to the one handed problem.MarsupilamiX likes this.09-24-14 04:15 PMLike 1 -
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CB10 on a Z1009-24-14 05:35 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1009-24-14 06:28 PMLike 0 -
- It's a decent review, but it's a pet peeve of mine when the word "media" is used to refer simply to video.
Media in general doesn't really hold up on the 1:1 screen. Movies are well reproduced on the 1440 x 1400 screen, chiefly because of the massive 453 pixel density. But there's no getting away from the letterbox lines that appear on the top and bottom of the screen.
BlackBerry is betting that you'll be using the Passport for checking spreadsheets, office documents, ebooks, presentations and full-scale websites.
Yes, it's a small point, but I think one purpose of a good tech review should be to get at these points, for the benefit of prospective buyers. Absolutely they should point out that 16:9 video will be letterboxed, but they should also point out that even letterboxed that video will be comparable in size, and superior in resolution, to one of the most popular phones on the planet.09-25-14 07:59 AMLike 3 - "And they fail to mention that the letterboxed video will be comparable in size to what you see on a Z10 or iPhone 5--between the two, in fact."
Wow. I had NO idea. Would love to see someone make that comparison.
Posted via CB1009-25-14 09:30 AMLike 0 -
The iPhone 6 is 138.1 x 67 x 6.9 mm (5.44 x 2.64 x 0.27 in)
Weight 129 g (4.55 oz)
The Z10 is 130 x 65.6 x 9 mm (5.12 x 2.58 x 0.35 in)
Weight 137.5 g (4.83 oz)
The Z30 is 140.7 x 72 x 9.4 mm (5.54 x 2.83 x 0.37 in)
Weight 170 g (6.00 oz)
The iPhone 6 Plus is 158.1 x 77.8 x 7.1 mm (6.22 x 3.06 x 0.28 in)
Weight 172 g (6.07 oz)
The Passport is 128 x 90.3 x 9.3 mm (5.04 x 3.56 x 0.37 in)
Weight 194 g (6.84 oz)
It is the width and weight that poses problems for the Passport but I type and use a Nexus 7 which has these dimensions.
200 x 114 x 8.7 mm (7.87 x 4.49 x 0.34 in)
Weight 290 g (Wi-Fi), 299 g (LTE) (10.55 oz)
You adapt to what you use. Yes, no one handed action but that is not a big deal for me. The iPhone 6 is a well sized device in between the Z10 and Z30.09-25-14 10:09 AMLike 0 -
'if it not an Iphone I won't like'.
From this viewpoint he's unfit to be reviewing anything phone related; they should have him reviewing headphones or tvs. Seriously you don't get someone who has bought every PlayStation and has never used an Xbox to review an Xbox One. Why becuase that will create a bias review, you get someone that has owned and used both systems and Nintendo systems too.
Posted via CB1009-25-14 11:09 AMLike 0 - <snip> And they fail to mention that the letterboxed video will be comparable in size to what you see on a Z10 or iPhone 5--between the two, in fact. Do they claim that "media doesn't hold up" on those devices?
Yes, it's a small point, but I think one purpose of a good tech review should be to get at these points, for the benefit of prospective buyers. Absolutely they should point out that 16:9 video will be letterboxed, but they should also point out that even letterboxed that video will be comparable in size, and superior in resolution, to one of the most popular phones on the planet.
Did anyone else read the WSJ review? It was HORRENDOUS. I can't believe that joke of a reporter put a slice of American cheese on the screen, first of all. Second of all, she mentions the camera once after complaining that Instagram isn't in Amazon (No, but iGran is in BBW) - and her throwaway sentence says the camera isn't good, anyways. Hi, did you even try it?!
Back on topic, this review is pretty impartial and well-balanced (again, except for the misleading paragraph about media/video). One thing, though - the reviewer says that some games don't fit right on the screen but Bla1ze's review mentioned a zoom option that should fix that. Do all these reviewers just jump in and write everything on the first day without even trying to learn how the OS/phone works?
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