Ever since BlackBerry signed over the rights to to produce BlackBerry branded phones to Chinese manufacturer TCL, the question has been what the first fully TCL-designed device would look like. Today, we have our answer, with TCL showing off the next Blackberry device, codenamed “Mercury”.

Here’s what we know:

• It has a physical keyboard (as TCL’s North American president Steve Cistulli teased earlier in the week)
• The keyboard has a fingerprint sensor built into the space bar
• The keyboard features capacitive touch technology for scrolling through things, like BlackBerry’s old Passport phone
• The phone runs Android Nougat, with additional security and business focused software provided by Blackberry (similar to the DTEK50 and DTEK60)
• It…

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