Blackberry is back with a vengeance: Introducing the Passport and the Classic

  New management, new goals. BlackBerry's short flirtation with touchscreen-only phones will be taking a step back as new CEO John Chen (pictured above) says BlackBerry's new phones will "predominantly" have physical keyboards. 

Meet the Blackberry Passport(pictured above), their first smartphone with this new goal. It sports a square 4.5" screen with 1,440 x 1,440 resolution (a QHD screen cropped to 1:1 aspect ratio). Below the square screen is a three-row QWERTY keyboard. The BlackBerry Passport will be a very wide device, the screen is about 81mm wide. Although we don't know more about the device at time of writing, it's said to have a much more advanced chipset a Snapdragon 800 say the rumors.

There's another new device too, the BlackBerry Classic(pictured above). Built to succeed the Q5 and Q10, it's again built around a hardware QWERTY keyboard. It will have a more manageable 3.5" screen (in diagonal), also square (the resolution is unknown). The Classic will also see the return of the familiar optical trackpad from the pre-BB10 devices.
   
The new Passport and Classic were proudly shown off by John Chen, who took over as Blackberry's CEO last November. Chen said early this year that new BlackBerrys will "predominantly" have QWERTY keyboards.

The Passport will launch in September, while the Classic is expected in November.