At the tail end of last week, BlackBerry and its CEO John Chen gave us a couple of peeks at the upcoming BlackBerry Passport, a device that combines a large, square touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard. Today BlackBerry is giving us another early look at the Passport, but this time it’s focusing squarely on the device’s keyboard.
BlackBerry says that the Passport will feature a “touch-enabled keyboard” that offers both a tactile feel as well as capacitive touch technology. Users will be able to navigate through websites, emails and more by “lightly brushing” their fingers over the keyboard. Other features of the Passport’s touch-enabled keyboard include:
With this unique touch-enabled keyboard, the Passport sounds like it’ll offer the adaptability of touchscreen QWERTYs along with the tactility and accuracy of physical ‘boards. We’ll have to wait and see how the Passport performs in real life before making any judgments about it, but so far it sounds like it’ll offer a nice touch-and-QWERTY combo for BlackBerry fans.
The BlackBerry Passport is expected to hit stores in September. Does this news about the Passport’s touch-enabled keyboard pique your interest in the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone?
Via Inside BlackBerry (1), (2)
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