BlackBerry’s financial report for the previous quarter is
now out and it’s a mix of good and bad news. First with the bad news, the
Canadian phone-maker’s revenue for the 2015 fiscal year was down by $10 million
from $976 million in the previous quarter with a loss of $0.11 per share.
The good news is that the company remains to be optimistic
and is releasing three new handsets for this fiscal year. In fact, the phone
maker has already announced the first of the trio – the BlackBerry
Z3 back in April by making it available for pre-order in Indonesia.
Today, the Z3 is joined by two new handsets that were
introduced by none other than BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen.
On one end is the BlackBerry Classic, which is primed as the
successor of the Q10 smartphone from last year. The phone will have a physical
QWERTY keyboard, a 3.5-inch display and an optical track pad.
But the most interesting announcement from the Canadian
company would have to be the BlackBerry Passport. The device is unlike any other
handset the manufacturer has released in the past with a 4.5-inch display with
a 1440 x 1440-pixel resolution.
This gives the phone a wide profile that makes it stand out
from other smartphones in the market. The phone will also have a three-row capacitive
keyboard which reportedly doubles as a track pad. Other notable specs of the Passport include a quad-core
processor, 3GB of RAM, an Adreno 330 GPU and a 3450mAh battery.
