BlackBerry's CEO John Chen at the company's earnings report and annual
meeting confirmed that the long-rumoured square-shaped 'Windermere'
smartphone will be officially called BlackBerry Passport.
Chen showed
off the yet-to-be-announced Passport which will launch in September at
an event in London. Crackberry reports
that the company chief also showcased the BlackBerry Classic QWERTY
smartphone that is slated to hit the market shelves before end of this
year, but did not give an exact release date.
Unfortunately, the
Canadian handset maker did not reveal any details about the pricing of the BlackBerry Passport, previously codenamed Windermere.
Based
on a BlackBerry developer listing, the Passport smartphone is said to sport a 4.5-inch display with a
resolution of 1440x1440 pixels and offer a pixel density of 453ppi.
Other than the screen information, company has not shared any more
details of the device.
Other rumoured innards of the BlackBerry
Passport include 3GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel rear camera, and a 3450mAh
battery. BlackBerry on Wednesday,
along with the announcement
of its deal with Amazon for 240,000 Android apps, also said that it
would be shutting down its music and video stores on BlackBerry World.
The
Canadian handset company also confirmed the launch of its low-cost touchscreen smartphone, the BlackBerry Z3 in India on
June 25. The company started sending invites for the event scheduled
next week with a tagline that said, "Join us to witness the unveiling of
the next generation BlackBerry 10 device."
For the BlackBerry
Classic, the company has revealed
that it will run BlackBerry 10.3.1 OS, for which a separate SDK would
be released for developers.
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