BlackBerry Passport goes out of stock on Amazon India

NEW DELHI: Ecommerce major Amazon India said that it has run out of the initial stocks of the new BlackBerry Passport devices in the country.

Amazon said that the smartphone found huge interest from outside the top eight metros. “Amazon.in has received orders for the BlackBerry Passport from 115+ cities across India,” the statement issued Thursday said.

However, the company didn’t disclose the number of units sold in the country.

Amazon.in is the exclusive online partner for the BlackBerry Passport smartphone.

The BlackBerry Passport went on pre-order exclusively on Amazon.in on the September 29 and was launched in India on October 11 for Rs 49,990.

Amazon said that it will continue to take pre-orders for the product with stock replenishments arriving early next week.

The Passport is a departure from the usual smartphone design and has a square shape. Its 4.5-inch touchscreen has an aspect ratio of 1:1 with a resolution of 1440 x 1440 pixels. Under the display is an innovative touch enabled keyboard that combines a physical keypad with virtual keypad functions seamlessly. You can swipe to delete and flick to select a predicted word on the keypad just like you would do on a display.

The device is powered by a 2.2Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad core processor and 3GB RAM, and comes with 32GB internal storage, which is expandable up to 128 GB via micro SD card. It has 13MP rear camera with optical image stabilisation and 2 MP front camera.