BlackBerry's latest phone: The BlackBerry Classic

BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen has unveiled the new BlackBerry phone, The BlackBerry Classic, its fourth smartphone of 2014,
following the Z3, the P’9983 and the BlackBerry Passport. BlackBerry’s latest smartphone comes with a full QWERTY physical keyboard and an optical track-pad, bringing back the best thing about the company that once dominated the smartphone market. 

BlackBerry has equipped the Classic with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, which features a 720 x 720 pixel resolution and 294ppi pixel density, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, an 8-megapixel camera, powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor and a reported 22 hours of battery life, all surrounded by a familiar-looking, and very traditional BlackBerry body shell.

Actually, the Classic just looks like an improved Bold. It is significantly smaller than the Passport and is actually possible to use in one hand, unlike the gargantuan Passport. BlackBerry says this phone will appeal to those looking for the traditional BlackBerry experience that made those devices so popular so many years ago. If you loved the BlackBerry Bold, chances are you’ll fall for the Classic. 

The Classic runs BlackBerry 10, which offers productivity tools like the Hub, Assistant, and Blend. It also can run Android apps. You could lay your hands on one for only $450(R5,195)