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Available as: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9000 with 3G connectivity Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9002 with dual SIM card support Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 with 3G & LTE connectivity Also known as Samsung Galaxy Note III
Black, White, Pink, Merlot Red, Rose Gold Black, Rose Gold White
- ANT+ support - S-Voice natural language commands and dictation - Air gestures - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage) - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer
BlackBerry (previously known as RIM) once dominated the enterprise smartphone market. And thanks to the free BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), the Canadian company also scored a hit with younger cash-strapped consumers. But Microsoft, Apple, Android vendors, and even the now-defunct Palm, took bites out of BlackBerry's market share, while competing free messaging apps and solutions, as well as the proliferation of consumer handsets, eroded the company's grip on the youth market. BlackBerry failed to respond, and went into a well-documented freefall from which it's still struggling to emerge. Recent BlackBerry handsets have met with mixed receptions, but the new Passport is an attempt to bring something different to the table. A square 4.5-inch screen and a QWERTY keyboard make the Passport stand out from other smartphones. Image: BlackBerry
Design
The Passport's business credentials are evident in software features like BlackBerry Blend, BlackBerry Balance and of course continued support for BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES), and in the way BlackBerry is marketing its unique hardware format. The Passport design centers on two unusual elements: a square 4.5-inch screen, and BlackBerry's signature physical keyboard. This is a vast handset, whose 9.3mm thickness is the only unremarkable dimension. It measures 128mm tall by 90.3mm wide, which is far too big for many users (including this one) to cope with one-handed. It's heavy too, at 196g — even if you find a pocket that can accommodate it (and I struggled to do that every day), you'll notice its weight. For comparison, consider these handsets:
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5mm • 176g • 5.7 inches • 2,560 x 1,440 pixels (515ppi) Sony Xperia Z3 146 x 72 x 7.3mm • 152g • 5.2 inches • 1,920 x 1,080 pixels (424ppi) iPhone 6 Plus 158.1 x 77.8 x 7.1mm • 172g • 5.5 inches • 1,920 x 1,080 pixels (401ppi) Unlike those handsets, and other current smartphones, the Passport's 4.5-inch screen is square, measuring 81mm by 81mm. It does rotate in some apps, but given its 1:1 aspect ratio the only reason you'd want to do that is to use the very clever touch feature built into the keyboard that lets you sweep around to scroll — when browsing websites, for example. It's very efficient, but of course the screen is also touch-sensitive, so you can tap that to scroll around if you wish. With a resolution of 1,440 by 1,440 pixels the Passport's screen delivers an impressive pixel density of 453ppi, which makes text wonderfully sharp and clear. Only a few handsets, like the HTC One (469ppi), the new Google/Motorola Nexus 6 (493ppi), the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (515ppi) and LG's G3 (534ppi) deliver a higher pixel density. The IPS LCD panel is bright and viewing angles are great. BlackBerry is upbeat about the screen's capabilities for viewing spreadsheets, editing documents and viewing maps in particular, and rightly so. There are only three rows of physical keys on the QWERTY keyboard — no number row, no secondary characters, no shift key. These become available as soft buttons, along with predictive text, depending on the app you open. Using soft keys and physical keys together is straightforward enough, but we had one major issue: we couldn't type one-handed on the Passport, which makes tapping out a quick 'running late' SMS tricky if you're straphanging on the bus, for example. That constraint extends to checking messages in the unified BlackBerry Hub, which can bring your email, twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Evernote and third-party notifications together in one place. The message list can be revealed, and messages selected, one-handed. But as soon as you get to responding, two hands are needed. It's a good stab at a unified communications centre, but the Hub doesn't quite do enough: it seems to support just one Twitter account, for example, while many business people require access more than one. Although the Passport is aimed primarily at business users, Blackberry caters for their home lives via BlackBerry Balance, which is part of the updated BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3. This allows enterprises to create secure workspaces while also allowing for the installation and use of personal apps and content. You also get access to the Amazon Appstore, for those who want to take advantage of the support offered in BlackBerry OS for third-party Android apps and who find the native BlackBerry World inadequate. Although Amazon's offering is only a subset of the full Google Play store, it's good to see it included out of the box. You also get the BlackBerry Assistant, a virtual assistant in the mould of Apple's Siri, Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana. BlackBerry Assistant is smart enough to respond to spoken queries with speech and to written queries with text, so you can use it in meetings without upsetting people. It searches on and off the device, and is a convenient way to find apps and documents. It can be a real time-saver, and caters for one-handed use too: you just hit the right-hand side button to activate it, and then say (for example) "Tweet having a great time, wish you were here", whereupon the tweet will be prepared for you to send, edit or cancel — again via a voice command. It's very effective. Office workers will probably also appreciate BlackBerry Blend, a service that makes BlackBerry content such as documents, calendar entries, plus SMS and email messages available to other devices in the Blend 'ecosystem'. It supports devices running Mac OS X 10.7, Windows 7, iOS 7 and Android 4.4 or later, and should make for seamless interactions without the need to access the Passport, unless you really want to.
Features
The BlackBerry Passport's technical specifications are in line with what we'd expect from a high-end smartphone (it's priced almost identically to a SIM-free 16GB Apple iPhone 6). Powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor supported by 3GB of RAM, it's somewhat slow to start up (something we remember from BlackBerry devices of old), but once up and running is smoothly responsive. The Passport's Nano-SIM and MicroSD card slots are under a small removable panel at the top of the handset. Image: Charles McLellan/ZDNetThere is 32GB of internal storage, of which 24.8GB is accessible to the user out of the box. You can add more storage via MicroSD cards — the slot, which accepts cards up to 128GB in capacity, is under a small removable panel on the backplate next to the Nano-SIM card slot. There is a 13-megapixel back facing camera that can shoot stills in three aspect ratios — 4:3, 16:9 and the screen's native 1:1. Shots seem to be a bit washed-out at times, but on the whole the image quality is acceptable. Features include HDR (with an option to save both the original and HDR versions of a shot), face detection, geotagging and self timer. There are panorama and burst modes, and also time shift, which captures a rapid burst of shots from which you can select one to save. There are a few scene modes — auto, action, night, beach or snow, and whiteboard. The 2-megapixel front camera shares access to all of these settings.
Performance & battery life
On the cross-platform Geekbench 3 CPU benchmark, the 3GB Snapdragon 801-powered Passport more or less holds its own with current high-end smartphones like Samsung's Galaxy S5 and the iPhone 6: However, its JavaScript performance (running on the native BlackBerry 10 OS browser) lags behind the Android and iOS handsets: Battery life is superb and a real plus point for the Passport. BlackBerry says you'll get up to 24 hours of 3G talk time from the Passport's 3,450mAh battery, 14.5 days on standby, 91 hours of audio playback and 11 hours video playback. During the test period, our review sample regularly went for two days between charges, losing very little when on standby.On low-usage days we barely drained a quarter of the battery's power.
Conclusion
BlackBerry hopes to revive its fortunes with the Passport, and has come up with an innovative business-focused handset. We've seen the Passport ridiculed on size grounds, but this is unfair in our view. Yes it's large and difficult to use one-handed, and it lacks 'blingy' consumer features, but there are plenty of plus points: its 4.5-inch, 1:1 aspect ratio screen provides space to do real work; the touch-enabled QWERTY keyboard is usable and functional; services like Blend, Balance and Hub have obvious appeal to business users; Assistant lets you accomplish some tasks very quickly; the BES back end is a very capable enterprise mobile management system; and battery life is superb.
13MP, up to 4128 x 3096-pixel pictures camera, HDR, Geo-tagging, auto focus camera with LED flash
Video
1080p@30fps
Secondary
5MP, up to 2592 x 1944-pixel pictures
Battery
Capacity
3000mAh Li-Ion battery
Stand-by
N/a
Talk time
N/a
Music play
N/a
Other Features
Sensors
Accelerometer, Proximity
Messaging
SMS, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser
HTML5
Java
No
- SNS integration – MP4/MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player – Document viewer – FM radio – Image viewer and editor – Voice memo/dial/command – Predictive text input – Google Search, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Opera Mini, Google Talk
"The HTC 8S is a good all round handset. It doesn't do a terrible job of anything but it also struggles to stand out. If you're set on Windows Phone 8 and don't want to drop a huge amount on a handset then for the time being this a good buy."
For
Stylish design
MicroSD card slot
Great social network integration
Good for messaging
Against
Lacklustre battery
Slow browser
Only 4 GB of internal storage
No smart dialling
Page 1 of 13Introduction
HTC have been a major Windows Phone player for a while now, arguably second only to Nokia in their output. With Samsung eating up much of their Android market share and Microsoft launching an exciting new version of Windows Phone, the platform is obviously going to be a key area of focus for the Taiwanese firm.
So it's no surprise that it hasn't hung around to release some Windows Phone 8 handsets, with both the mid range HTC Windows Phone 8S and its big brother the HTC Windows Phone 8X competing for your attention.
Since its launch, the HTC 8S now has a number of competitors in the Windows Phone 8 space. Its main rivals are probably the Nokia Lumia 620 and the Lumia 520, with the former costing around £30 more, and the latter £50 less.
Compare that to the HTC Windows Phone 8S, which can be picked up for around £150 (around $365/AU$345), and you'll see it's got some pretty close company in the budget space.
The specs confirm its position as a mid range handset. Powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and packed with just 512 MB of RAM. With a 5 megapixel camera, 720p video and just 4 GB of internal storage (albeit with support for microSD cards of up to 32 GB), everything about it screams mid-range.
Things don't change with the Super LCD Gorilla Glass display. At 4 inches it's a decent size but not huge and its 480 x 800 resolution (coming in at 233 pixels per inch) is fine but nothing particularly impressive.
In other words it's got solid specs all around, which on paper are neither impressive nor disappointing for the price.
The only potentially disappointing spec is its 1,700 mAh battery, which seems a little on the small side, but it's around the same size as the one in the bigger and more powerful Samsung Galaxy S2 and that holds up well enough.
The first thing to stand out about the HTC 8S is its two-tone colour scheme. Bright colours have become a staple of Windows Phone, but normally you just get the one colour per handset.
With the HTC 8S the bulk of the phone is one colour, while a stripe at the bottom is another. Interestingly this sets it apart even from the other phone in the range- the HTC 8X, which again is all one colour. It's a great and distinctive look, making the phone immediately recognisable no matter what angle it's viewed at.
With dimensions of 120.5 x 63 x 10.3mm it's not the thinnest phone you'll ever see, but the curved edges make it seem slightly slimmer and sleeker than it actually is.
It continues to impress when you pick it up. At 113g it's got a decent amount of weight to it, making it feel like a fairly premium device rather than a cheap piece of plastic.
Speaking of plastic, there's no brushed metal or glass back on the HTC Windows Phone 8S, it's plastic through and through.
Despite that it doesn't seem flimsy. The rubbery, polycarbonate finish makes it easy to grip and feels good in the hand. It doesn't look or feel cheap either, just different and that's a good thing.
The front of the HTC 8S is dominated by the 4 inch screen, as you might expect. Above it there's HTC's logo and a speaker, while below it there's the iconic stripe adorned with three soft touch buttons, specifically home, back and search.
HTC have again stamped their logo in silver onto the back of the phone - this time much bigger. Above it you'll find the 5 megapixel camera lens, while below it there's a logo for 'Beats' audio, below that a speaker and below that the coloured stripe.
The top edge of the phone has a 3.5mm headphone port on the left and the power button on the right. The general positioning of the power button is fine, but it's hardly raised at all, making it hard to find and press, in fact we found that we often thought we'd pressed it only for nothing to happen as we'd either missed it or not applied enough pressure.
The bottom edge is home to a micro USB port, used for charging the handset and connecting it to a computer. You'll also find the microphone here.
The top of the right edge houses a volume rocker while the bottom is home to a dedicated camera button - which both launches the camera and takes photos. The left edge has absolutely no buttons or ports on it.
You can't remove the back of the HTC Windows Phone 8S. Instead the little stripe at the bottom is removable and gives you access to the microSD card slot and the micro SIM.
This does mean that you can't remove the battery, which is a bit of a shame, particularly considering it's 1,700 mAh in size, but otherwise it seems a lot more elegant than taking the whole back cover off.
It also means that the annoying practice of putting the microSD card slot behind the battery has been avoided, meaning that if you have more than one cards worth of media you can swap cards without turning the phone off. Given that there's only 4 GB of internal storage this could be genuinely useful for some users.
The coloured stripe is easy enough to remove but feels securely in place when you put it back on. It's also not as flimsy as some covers, so there's little worry of it breaking when you try to take it off.
I noticed that the top most part of the screen where the battery percentage n the carrier signal is located, has some sort of light bleed, you'll notice it with white background... You'll see some blackish tint.. Very disappointed with this Appl...
It’s no longer news - Paypal now accepts Nigerians without having to change IP. Although, Paypal doesn't yet allow peer-to-peer transactions for Nigerian users, at least for now, you can pay for products and services on sites that accept Paypal. I've opened a Paypal account and verified it by linking it with my GTB Naira Mastercard (the GTB ATM card). I've decided to share the steps with you in this post.
How To Verify Paypal Nigeria Account With GTB Naira MasterCard
==> Click "Open an Account" for Individual account type
==> Fill in your details including a valid email address you've never used on Paypal.com.
==> Click the "Agree and Create Account" button
==> You might see a security challenge, type the characters you see in the image and click "Continue".
==> You will then be prompted to enter your card details. Enter the card number, the expiry date and the 3 digits at the back of the card in the spaces provided. Ensure the billing address matches the address you used to open your bank account. The same address is associated with your card.
==> Click "Continue" to proceed to your account.
==> Sign in to your email account and click on the verification link in the mail sent to you by Paypal. This might prompt you to enter your password for you to sign in to your Paypal account.
==> Once signed in, click the 'Get Verified" link or the "Link and confirm credit or debit card" link
==> You will be redirected to a new page to confirm your card for verification. The card type, the last four digits of the card to confirm and the billing address will be displayed. Click on "Continue" to proceed.
==> After clicking "Continue", Paypal will charge the card $1.95 (about N320) to make sure it's yours. Paypal will refund the money within 24 hours after you confirm your card.
==> Wait for the card statement (debit alert from your bank via sms or email) and you will see a 4-digit code associated with the Paypal charge. Your SMS alert should include a line similar to:
The Naira equivalent of USD1.95 has been authorized for the transaction done on PP*0123CODE 0123456789FF
==> Once you have the 4-digit Paypal code (highlighted in yellow), log back in to your PayPal account and click "Confirm my debit or credit card".
==> Enter the 4-digit code from your card statement in the space provided and click "Confirm Card" button.
If successful, you will see the confirmation message.
And your Paypal account status should now be verified as seen in the screenshot below:
That's all.
You can now start using your Paypal account to make payments on sites that accept Paypal. No need worrying yourself about funding the Paypal account for now. When you use it to make payments, the credit or debit card linked to the Paypal account will be charged.
Have you been able to verify your Paypal account? Which bank card did you use? Please, let me hear from you via comments.
It's almost 6 months now that PayPal limited access to my account which I verified with GTBank Naira MasterCard and also linked to my Access Bank Visa card. The account was rendered useless because I couldn't use it for online payments.
The account was limited after I entered the wrong password several times and I was told to change my password, change my security question, proof my address and upload a photo ID for me to regain full access to the account.
Instantly, I changed my password, changed my security question and those were marked as "resolved" at the resolution centre but I couldn't proof my address.
PayPal rejected the NEPA bill (utility bill) which I uploaded simply because another name (name of the house owner) is on the bill.
I also couldn't resolve the issue with my driver's license because the address on it is different from the address on my PayPal account. I used the address of where I reside presently when I opened the Nigeria PayPal account but my home address is what I have on the driver's license.
The whole thing pissed me off. For months, I abandoned the account and relied on Pay4ME services of my friends for online purchases that require PayPal.
Today, I decided to check the inbox of my PayPal email address for mails related to PayPal limitation removal. Fortunately, I saw an email in which it was stated that I can also send screenshots of online statements which has logo of institution, name, address,valid date of issue and transactions (if bank account).
For some seconds, I thought of an online statement I can use and I decided to try my Google Adsense account. I quickly signed in to my Adsense account and took a screenshot of the most recent Payment receipt. I signed it to my PayPal account and uploaded it at the resolution center.
Few hours later, I received a mail that my PayPal account access has been restored. Good news..right? :)
Immediately, I started combing the web for Cyber Monday deals..eh eh. Yes, I just can't wait to grab some fantastic deals.
That's all.
NB: You can access your Adsense Payment receipts via the Payment page, after clicking on the "gear" icon if signed in via PC.
