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hey I'm Nate Ralph vecina today we're checking out the blackberry passport this smartphone will be available later this year around the world and it will cost five hundred nine nine dollars u.s. there's still no word on what carries it will be available for or what the price will be on contract so let's get the most important question out of the way yes it fits in my pants pocket no it's not exactly comfortable the phone is as big as it looks thanks to that square four and a half inch display it's definitely unique and personally I kind of think it looks great it just screams slick and professional with a sturdy stainless steel frame and a compact physical keyboard running underneath that display the square design major can comfortably fit a lot of text on the screen without necessarily scrolling a bunch or flipping over to a wider landscape mode it's a pretty nice screen too with a 1440 x 1440 resolution again that's a square texted photos look really crisp and shut the phones with offers obvious bonuses to the keyboard which is nice spacious keys that are really easy to type on quickly and accurately after a bit of practice the keyboard is also touch enabled which is pretty clever it works as a sort of faux touch bag you can scroll around documents and web site to things like that this is incredibly useful while reading because it means you can keep your hands off the screen and out of the way and the touch enabled keyboard is even more useful while you're writing consider predictive text as you're writing three options appear over the keyboard just three suggested words and you can swipe up underneath each option to stick it into your text if you need to edit a scented you can just double tap on the keyboard and a little magnifying glass popped up you can just scroll around and put that wherever you'd like so you can edit in line and there are plenty of other nice features like great battery life a 13 megapixel camera that takes pretty good shots an intelligent phone speaker that will adjust the call volume if you in a noisy environment and Blackberry 10.3 OS which lets you run Android app it even comes with the amazon appstore but the passport has an obvious size problem now I've got big hands and I generally manage to get about without issue for the width still makes it noticeably less comfortable to hold and use and even gargantuan devices like the Galaxy Note 3 it's actually wider than that it's also a pain to do things like web browsing or texting one hand and they say that a really creeped up if you're holding something and one or a popular text you need to really like physical keyboards to get over all the size compromise with this square shape introduces now if you're a blackberry fan or a busy professional who spends a lot of time hammering out emails you're going to find a lot to like here but for the rest of us the awkward shape is going to make it a bit of a hard to sell I'm Nate Ralph be sure to read the rest of my review on cnet this has been our first look at the blackberry passport thanks for watching