It will be available for sale in 20 cities across 1,000 stores from Friday.
Canadian smartphone maker Blackberry on Tuesday slashed the prices of its latest handsets for existing enterprise customers.
The troubled Canadian handset major has India and enterprise clients at the centre of its turnaround plans, notes Shivani Shinde Nadhe.
The company has been struggling in the highly competitive smartphone market globally.
Passport is competitively and aggressively priced because of its specification.
The device was launched globally last month.
BlackBerry had launched Z10 and a Qwerty device Q5, powered by its latest BB10 operating system, with a lot of fanfare.
FY14 profit halves, dips to 4-yr low
It is betting on enterprise services and new launches to revive demand. But are the measures enough to steal a march on established players like Samsung and Micromax?
The voice-assistant and intuitive text search are other features which Lalvani says would aid productivity.
The Canadian smartphone maker is banking on its platform-agnostic security and software products to make incursions in the market.
Budget smartphones will rule the market in 2015.
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