'Blackberry Passport' News: Announces Black And Gold Limited Luxury Edition

The square-shaped Blackberry Passport will soon come out with a Black and Gold limited edition, the company has announced.

Available only to the first 50 buyers, Blackberry's latest smartphone will be covered in soft calf leather with Valextra costa lacquered piping and a classy gold back cover and gold sides, Canada's Metro News said.

Each Passport will also be marked with a unique production number on the lower right gold side, Blackberry said in an announcment posted on its blog.

"Everyone loves gold, right? You might consider it 'gilding the lily' with the productivity powerhouse sporting a large square touch screen," Blackberry said.

The luxury editions has 453 PPI, touch-enabled keyboard, 3450 mAh battery for up to 30 hours of mixed use and top-flight software, including the Hub, BlackBerry Assistant, BlackBerry Blend, and Amazon Appstore among others.

BlackBerry also listed examples of some people going through the hard work of customizing their Passport to give it a unique look.

Third-party luxury customization company Goldgenie offers Blackberry Passport in gold, rose gold, and platinum for around $2,000 apiece.

BlackBerry, however, is offering its gold and black limited edition Passport for $999 in Canada and $899 in the U.S.

The company also offers Passport in standard black and white for $599 and another limited edition red for $699.

For this price, BlackBerry Passport comes with a 4.5-inch square HD touch screen display with 1440 x 1440 pixels.

It is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core processor, 3GB RAM and has 32GB storage. The smartphone runs on BlackBerry's 10.3 OS and sports a 13MP camera with OIS.

BlackBerry has been known to offer a line of wireless handheld devices and services designed and marketed by BlackBerry Limited, formerly known as Research In Motion Limited (RIM).

It was one of the major smartphone vendors that was available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies until 2012.

As of September 2013, there were 85 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide.