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Blackberry has formally announced a limited edition of the Passport Black & Gold, consisting of only 50 devices.

Along with the gold sides and a gold back cover, Passport's luxury edition will have cover done in Valextra leather. Each of the devices is numbered.

The limited luxury edition can be purchased at the manufacturer's American website and priced at 899 dollars. A third-party firm, Goldgenie is now offering the BlackBerry Passport in rose gold, gold or platinum versions, with a price tag of around 1,000 dollars each.

The BlackBerry Passport is sporting HD touch screen measuring 4.5-inch with a 1440-1440 pixels resolution. The device is featured by the BlackBerry 10.3 OS and a 2.2GHz quad-core processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. The smartphone has inbuilt capacity of 32GB storage. The 4G-ready device is coming with a 13MP camera with 1080p video recording and optical image stabilization.

The unlocked version of the device for 699.99 dollars is marketed mainly to business professionals.

-Kannamsai