Blackberry, with its great come back wants to lure iPhone users to ditch their phones in exchange of a new Blackberry Passport.
Blackberry has announced a Blackberry Passport trade up program that allows iPhone users to trade in any model of iPhone from 4s to iPhone 6. Users will not only get a new Blackberry Passport, they may also get up to $550 of rebate.
The trade-in value depend on the iPhone the customer is trading. The iPhone 4S worth up to $90 and the iPhone 6 worth up to $400.All traded iPhone must be in good and working condition, with every iPhone traded up Blackberry tops it with additional $150.
Blackberry Passport Vs iPhone 6: will you ditch your iPhone in exchange of a BB Passport?
Check out this brief comparison from iDigitalTimes to help you find out.
Display
The square shaped BB Passport sports a 4.5-inch 1440x1440 pixel resolution display with a pixel density of 453ppi.
The Apple iPhone 6 carries a 4.7in saphire LED back-lit display with a 1334 x 750 resolution its Apple's new "Retina HD". That means you get a pixel density of 326ppi just like the iPhone 5S.
Hardware And OS
The iPhone 6 Plus is armed with a dual-core 64-bit A8 processor - an upgrade over the 5S' A7 processor, with Apple claims it is 25% faster, with 50% faster graphics and runs in its latest Apple iOS 8. It also offers a storage variant of 16GB, 64GB and 128GB.
The Blackberry Passport is powered by a 2.2GHz quad- core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974- AA) processor; an Adreno 330 GPU and supported by a 3GB of RAM. An internal memory of 32GB and expandable storage via microSD card (up to 64GB).
Blackberry Passport runs on BB10 0S and the Canadian tech giant teamed up with Amazon offering u to 400,000 apps.
Batteries
The iPhone 6 has a 1,810 mAH battery that can last up to 14 hours of talk time. While, the BlackBerry Passport boasts a 3,450 mAh battery that can last up to 23 hours of talk time.
Apple is stuck with an 8MP rear camera like its 5s but improvef with its True Tone dual-LED flash, its aperture is still f/2.2 and the pixels are still bigger, at 1.5 microns. Its front camera has a new sensor, a better aperture and better low-light photographs.
The BB Passport sports a a 13- megapixel rear camera with BSI sensor and 2- megapixel front camera.
Both phones is reported to can record 1080p video at 60fps but the iPhone 6 can also record slow motion 720p video at 240fp. DigitalTimes said in a report.
