While many people were standing in line for the newest edition of Apple’s iPhone, another hot release came out which was also not another Android-based device. This means that each operating system which are unique, as each provides different types of applications and programs.
Sizes, Displays, and Designs
The Blackberry Passport provides a full-Qwerty keyboard on the square-screened oddly designed phone. You will notice a band on the top of the back panel, with a stainless-steel frame. On the front panel, you have 4.5 inches with an IPS LCD screen with 1440 x 1400 resolution with 453 ppi pixel density. The screen also is coated with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 which protects from scratches. The phone is quadratic, which gives the phone a very thick 9.3 mm, very wide at 90.3 mm, and 128 mm tall display, only weighing 196 grams.
While the attractiveness is up for debate on the design of the iPhone 6, it comes with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 coated display with an aluminum body. Compared to their predecessor it has a slimmer body with a 6.9 measure, width at 67 mm, and 138.1 mm height that makes it taller than the Blackberry Passport. Unlike their previous version, it only weighs 129 grams. You will find the round home button below the screen, and you have the option of purchasing products with Apple Pay thanks to their integrated fingerprint sensor. The 4.7 inch screen is equipped its IPS LCD screen with LED-back light with 750 x 1335 pixel resolution and 326 ppi pixel density much like its predecessor.
OS and Hardware
The Blackberry Passport is a viable competitor in the market, as it offers a viable performance for its hardware as it is equipped with Qualcomm MSM8974AA Snapdragon 801 chipset running on a quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400 processor. With 3GB of RAM coupled with Adreno 330 GPU, it makes the Blackberry 10.3 OS run without a hitch. The flagship phone comes with 32GB of internal memory capacity and with a microSD card it can increase the memory up to 128GB.
The latest iPhone comes with Apple’s own A8 chipset which clocks its two core processor at 1.4GHz to give it a great performance. The PowerVR GX6450 powers the GPU and 1GB RAM capacity allows for a smooth ride. Unlike Blackberry, the iPhone 6 gives users three options of storage, the biggest at 128GB, 64GB, and 16GB. However, there lack of addable storage with a microSD card slot could be a buzzkill from some users. Apple rushed to release the iPhone 6 with their iOS 8, but had to fix some of the bugs of the OS with an 8.0.2 iOS update.
Cameras
The iPhone 6 comes with a dual LED flash, autofocus, and phase detection on their 8MP rear camera, that comes with 3264 x 2448 pixel resolution. Other features are the secondary camera at 1.2MP face detection with 720P at 30PS, which allows for FaceTime over Cellular or Wi-Fi network. The rear camera also lets users have HD image and video recording with HDR (panorama/photo), face/smile detection/ touch focus, geotagging, and 1/3 inch sensor size with 1.5pm pixels.
The Passport doesn’t disappoint either as the Passport provides a 13 MP rear camera that also comes with a load of features similar to the iPhone 6. This includes geotagging, face detection, HDR, LED flash, autofocus, and optical image stabilization. The rear camera also allows for recording videos at 1080p@60fps. The front camera does not disappoint either as it allows for recordings at 720P and offers 2MP, but don’t underestimate the iPhone 6 rear camera. The Passport also has dual LED flash, with 1.5pm pixel size, on 1/3” sensor size, phase detection, autofocus, and tons of other pictures that allows users to get quality good photos.
Other Features For Passport
Blackberry Passport’s main characteristic is its qwerty keyboard, which has long been the Passport’s secret of success over another smartphone. This allows users that have to text complicated documents and don’t want to bungle with a big phablet, or carry a laptop.
Apple Siri also has competition as the Blackberry Assistant voice-activated program provides a good job for its users’ commands.