BlackBerry Passport and BlackBerry Z3 win design awards

Here is a riddle for you. Two BlackBerry handsets received the iF Design Award 2015 and were each awarded the iF label. Yet, only one phone had a design attributable to BlackBerry. How is that possible? Here is a clue. The two models are the BlackBerry Passport and the BlackBerry Z3. Still not sure? The answer is that the BlackBerry Z3 was the first phone to be delivered under a partnership between BlackBerry and contract manufacturer Foxconn.



Under the terms of the deal, Foxconn designs, produces and warehouses entry-level BlackBerry phones for emerging markets. BlackBerry supplies the ...