BlackBerry isn’t giving up on physical keyboards
January 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
TCL, the Chinese company that now owns the exclusive rights to product BlackBerry-branded phones, has put up a teaser video of a new smartphone. But it’s not so much a teaser of the smartphone as it a teaser for the keyboard. There are still humans who prefer a physical keyboard on their phone to a touchscreen — because they genuinely feel more comfort with them or because they simply suffer from an overdeveloped sense of tech nostalgia. (I suffer from this strange syndrome, FYI.)
The next BlackBerry is codenamed “Mercury” and according to Android Central, it will “feature an unusual 1620×1080 resolution.” It will, of course, run Android and BlackBerry’s specific customizations focused on security and the BlackBerry Hub. Those things…
