Finally, BlackBerry announces its new smartphone 'Passport'

Blackberry has rolled out the Passport smartphone at a global event, simultaneously held in Toronto, Dubai, and London. Despite showing off the phone several times already, this was the phone's official debut, and has provided more information on the unusual looking device.

The dimensions of the BlackBerry Passport match the real passport. The device is equipped with a 4.5-inch, 1440 x 1440 pixel resolution touchscreen display. This offers a 453ppi pixel density, which is suitably sharp, Fox News reported. BlackBerry Passport has a powerful 3450mAh battery, which should return 30 hours of varied use, and to ensure battery saving, one can turn the phone over on the table and it automatically goes into standby mode.

A 13-megapixel camera is on the back, fitted with a new lens and sensor, plus it has optical image stabilization. We're told it'll take the best pictures we've ever seen from a BlackBerry phone. Inside is a 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage space. The Passport will go on sale on Friday with the Telus network for 200 dollars until the end of the month, when the price will increase to 250 dollars, the report added.