BlackBerry Unveils New Passport Smartphone!

BlackBerry Unveils Bizarre Square Smartphone
A square smartphone called Passport is the latest offering from the Canadian firm, as it struggles to stem financial losses.
 
BlackBerry chief executive John Chen holds up the Passport

Muscled out of the smartphone market by iPhone, Android and Samsung, BlackBerry has rolled the dice on its latest product and come up with a square phone.

The Canadian firm has unveiled more details about the unusual device called the Passport, which it first previewed in June, including a 4.5-inch square HD screen.

A post on the official BlackBerry blog said: "Many have thought that creativity around the design of smartphones was dead.

"Device companies have been emulating the same, entertainment-driven look for so long that there's been a homogenisation of the visual cues in smartphone design." BlackBerry was once the phone model of choice for businesspeople

The screen width fits 60 characters rather than the 40 seen on a rectangular five-inch device.

Under the heading "it's hip to be square", the post said the width is ideal for reading ebooks, viewing documents and browsing the web.

Comparing it to a giant cinema screen, the post added: "The Passport is like the IMAX of productivity and you don't have to sacrifice screen real estate, vertically or horizontally."

The post said the device was aimed at professionals such as architects, writers and medical staff.

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SANUSI STOPPED AT KANO AIRPORT!

"BREAKING: JONATHANIAN VIOLATORS OF COURT ORDERS AND JUDGMENTS ARE AT IT AGAIN - NASIR EL RUFAI.

My brother Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has just been stopped at Kano Airport and prevented from travelling to Saudi Arabia for Lesser Hajj, violating his freedom of movement, religion and conscience.

"His passport was seized and SLS was told that on orders from the President, the SSS officers at the airport have been instructed to violate his constitutional rights with impunity and disregard for any orders of the High Court.

"These Jonathanians have no respect for the laws of the country and court judgment., yet they expect citizens to respect them and take them seriously. They have failed to provide basic security, they divert funds meant for public purposes to private accounts and are shocked that we look at them with utmost contempt.

"They dance and party when citizens are being bombed to death and our daughters being abducted by their BH partners and allies. They then insult our sensibilities by questioning whether over 200 girls have ever been kidnapped from Chibok, and then form a committee in search of someone to blame not to find the girls.

"They are cowards who run into hiding with the hint of the slightest danger to their bodies or bank accounts. They block public roads they did not build to protect themselves and care less about the safety of the Nigerian citizen, but are quick to violate the rights of unarmed and law-abiding citizens like SLS because he exposed their grand theft of $20 billion!.

"They now steal at least $1.2 billion every month from our oil revenues and think that with such monies, they can procure INEC, the military and police to enable them write the results of the next election that they know they cannot in a fair contest. Yet they think they will get away with it. They will not!

"The God we all worship is All-Knowing and All-Seeing, and will deal with these cowardly tyrants. We hope that SLS' lawyers will go back to the High Court and procure the arrest of the whichever clown in the presidency is behind this latest violation of the ruling of the court. That clown should not be allowed to enjoy the freedom that others shed their blood to deliver to the people of Nigeria.

"I am angry. I feel helpless and ashamed that a bunch of buffons are bringing the only country I have to its knees through sheer brainlessness."

- Nasir El-Rufai