Posted on 06/26/2025 12:07:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
If you've been hankering to thumb-type on a physical keyboard on your phone again, Unihertz wants to sort you out. Its upcoming Titan 2 phone looks like it's modeled on beloved BlackBerry handsets, while packing Android 15 and up-to-date hardware to make it easy to live with.
More specifically, the Titan 2 looks a lot like the boxy BlackBerry Passport from 2014, with a 4.5-inch 1440x1440-px square display gracing its flat-edge body. The Shanghai-based brand, which is known for making tiny phones and rugged ones, is squarely aiming at nostalgic gadgetheads – and despite the brazen design imitation, it works for me.
The keyboard, which takes up the bottom third of the device's face, features a full QWERTY layout with backlit tactile keys. Those keys can do a couple of neat tricks: they double as a trackpad so you can scroll through documents and TikToks without touching the screen, they support gestures to move the cursor around while working with text, and you can assign long-press or short-press shortcuts to each of them (like launching specific apps).
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ping!........Retro is back!.............
👍 I will check check it out.
Sounds good to me. I loved my old Blackberry (still got it stored away somewhere). With my chemo, I’ve developed a bit of neuropathy in my hands so that touchscreens don’t work so well for me anymore, so a physical keyboard would help.
How about a phone without half the junk on it and fits in my front pocket with-out sticking me when I sit?
“The Shanghai-based brand,”
Is Chicom and Google spyware included for free or do you have to pay for it?
I would like that; but I just bought a new phone...
Howo helpful.
Now you won’t need a piano or a television set.
Where’s it made?
Smartphone makers should incorporate a TV remote App that could change the channel and volume, etc.............
Can you open it up and replace the battery?
Now, will Palm make a comeback...? Blackberry was my first phone...still have it...got to get a battery for it...
Unknown............
There is an app for that already.
Android or iOS?...............
I’ll buy one when my 3 year old galaxy twenty something needs to be replaced. I absolutely loved my Blackberries. One of the features I miss the most is using that keyboard as a directional locator, I’m always grabbing my phone upside down and rotating it.
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Could do math at such a level that today it would be called “AI”.
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