Gadget of the week
BlackBerry Passport
£529, or free on a £30.50 contract
t’s been a long time since a phone company has turned heads with a truly different phone. Step forward the Passport — a square beast of a handset designed to win back BlackBerry diehards who have defected to the iPhone or Galaxy. The Passport is huge, with a much larger square screen designed for displaying graphs or spreadsheets, and its physical keyboard is, let’s face it, much easier to use than a touchscreen. Blend, a software programme, ports the phone’s screen between laptops and tablets, so you can work on whatever device you like.
It’s not without its problems, but for architects, surveyors and bankers sick of scrolling across documents awkwardly, this