However, there’s still at least one company making BlackBerry-like handsets, physical keyboards, and all, and it just tweeted a teaser that suggests a new BlackBerry-esque phone is coming soon. The company is Unihertz which released its Titan in 2019. With a form factor straight out of the BlackBerry Passport, including a nearly square 4.5-inch display, Unihertz also borrowed the Passport’s elaborate QWERTY keyboard which was a hybrid of physical buttons and contextual virtual touchscreen keys.
For example, you can use physical QWERTY to type characters, but if you need to type punctuation marks or other special keys, you’ll have to look at the top of the physical keyboard where depending on the content on the display. Some touchscreen typing options will appear. ,
Unihertz unveils new Blackberry style phone…
Powered by Android, the Titan had everything BlackBerry fans could want on a real ‘Berry’, including access to the Google Play Store, IP67 water and dust resistance, and a massive 6000mAh battery. But if there was one complaint, it was that the size of the phone was too big and the device was too heavy. So last year Unihertz brought a smaller and lighter version of the Titan that ditched the comparison to the BlackBerry Passport but still included a physical keyboard.
To reiterate, last week, Unihertz teases a new BlackBerry-style phone on Twitter, The tweet shows a black background with the words “Coming soon…” and a small area where the light slightly reveals what’s hidden in the dark and it’s a new one with a physical keyboard. Looks like a Blackberry-style handset. Several Twitter subscribers were able to find out what was in the dark and it looks a lot like a BlackBerry KEY2 clone, with some changes to QWERTY.
…appeared to look like the Blackberry KEY2
And it looks like a Key2 clone could be the next phone that Unihertz will introduce soon. And maybe it will be more than 5G connectivity.
