# BlackBerry Passport

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/blackberry-passport/

9 people recommended BlackBerry Passport in Hacker News comments and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 7 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for its email experience, LED notification light and keyboard that many call the best on a phone. One critic found its keyboard flat, wide and only three rows.

Summary written by Claude from 9 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Email experience and LED notifications (2 comments in the sample): "Best email experience ever and LED for emails was particularly useful." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467712)) "Loved the LED on my Blackberry Passport." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467470))
- Loved it as a phone (2 comments in the sample): "The Passport was pretty much perfect, and I've not loved a phone as much before or since." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469153)) "one of the single lovelist phones I've ever had" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420544))
- Strong keyboard and form factor (2 comments in the sample): "The perfect form factor however is the Blackberry Passport which I now own as a little Cyberdeck device" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115938)) "best keyboard ever on a phone" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725092))

## Other smartphones people recommend

- [Apple iPhone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone/): 438 recommend, 190 mixed, 789 criticize
- [Fairphone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fairphone/): 110 recommend, 42 mixed, 94 criticize
- [iPhone 13 mini](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone-13-mini/): 105 recommend, 32 mixed, 44 criticize
- [Apple iPhone Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone-17-pro/): 90 recommend, 45 mixed, 138 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "BlackBerry Passport", https://hackerapproved.com/p/blackberry-passport/ (9 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.