Blackberry Passport News, Blackberry Will Pay $50 Users To Dump Their iPhones For The New Passport

Blackberry has a holiday treat for you, if you will trade in your iPhone 6 for the brand's Blackberry Passport, the firm will pay you $50.

The promotion will start on Dec 1, the company will pay customers up to $400 to trade their iPhones 4s, 5,5C and 6 units. Plus, they will pay $150.

Moreover, Blackberry is giving $100 off the $599 purchase of the Blackberry Passport. Although, the markdown doesn't apply to the model's other colors. Together with the discount, the utmost trade in value for an iPhone, then buyers gets $50 with their Blackberry Passport.

The offer is on hand on ShopBlackBerry.com.

In addition, a BlackBerry Z30 goes for $225 on the site, a markdown from the $499 suggested retail price.

It is a one of kind deal for the holidays, according to Blackberry representative Lisette Kwong. Blackberry launched the Passport in September. Showing a width of 3.6 inches and a square display, which makes it a powerful and very strange device?

One of the Blackberry Z10, Jam Harry said that this phone has one killer feature that any iPhone can't match, its signature blinking red light.

"I look at the iPhone, and I don't know if there's a message or not," Harry says. As the head of new business ventures for Comptel, a Helsinki-based software firm, Harry finds BlackBarry unmatched for running business apps. He is also a fan of BlackBerry 10's Hub, which centralizes his messages. Harry also owns an iPhone 6, which he likes, but hates the HTC One. For my use, it's perfect. It's tailored for business use."

On the marketing point of view, the company showed its new path when they hired a business to business ad agency a few weeks ago, letting go of its former ad agency BBDO who is famous for marketing M&Ms Visa and Snickers.

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