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BlackBerry-style phone features a physical keyboard and dual screens
New Atlas ^ | June 26, 2025 | Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: blackberry; blackberrypassport; titan2phone; unihertz

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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

Probably wouldn’t work on 5G systems...............


21 posted on 06/26/2025 12:52:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Yeah. I’m waiting for a decent phone that can take/make calls, but running GNU/Linux (RasPiOS?). This phone has the physical form I’d like to see. But Android is one step below Windows11 in my book (my current phone is Android, and it s!*ks).


22 posted on 06/26/2025 12:53:26 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

BRAVE AI:

BlackBerry Phone Compatibility

BlackBerry phones that run on legacy operating systems, such as BlackBerry 10, 7.1 OS, and PlayBook OS 2.1, are no longer supported as of January 4, 2022.

This means that these devices may not function properly on today’s phone systems due to the decommissioning of BlackBerry’s infrastructure and services.

However, newer BlackBerry devices, such as the BlackBerry KEY2 series, which run on the Android operating system, are still functional and supported.

Despite this, users of older BlackBerry devices may experience issues with app compatibility, security, and network support, as carriers continue to update their systems.

Some users have reported that their older devices still work, but this may not be reliable in the long term.


23 posted on 06/26/2025 12:54:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Need one that wipes their behinds.


24 posted on 06/26/2025 12:55:07 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rulsh!!!!!)
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To: moviefan8

Thanks!.....................


25 posted on 06/26/2025 12:55:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

awesome. would like one but how long will this company produce it? More work and cost in a physical keyboard which I suspect contributed to Blackberry’s demise.


26 posted on 06/26/2025 1:00:18 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Red Badger

If it has a Rotary Dial, I’m on it.


27 posted on 06/26/2025 1:08:14 PM PDT by bosco24
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To: Red Badger

Might. Found out that a number of older phones still work, even after the provider screamed for a year that a new phone was needed, over and over.


28 posted on 06/26/2025 1:22:02 PM PDT by Norski
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To: Red Badger

I had a Blackberry Passport. Was my favorite phone ever. BlackBerry 10 was a great and innovative OS. A real shame they had to fold. Android sucks....all your data belong to us


29 posted on 06/26/2025 1:27:09 PM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Montana_Sam
Yeah. I’m waiting for a decent phone that can take/make calls, but running GNU/Linux (RasPiOS?).

The forthcoming Tesla/Starlink phone promises that.

I have a Linux based Pine-Phone (Mandrake), but I wasn't able to set a SIM to work with it, and performance (processor AND battery) were unacceptable.
30 posted on 06/26/2025 1:29:46 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have one of those still, and as well a 15c, 11c, and 41cv

the one I use mostly is on my computer

http://hp15c.com


31 posted on 06/26/2025 1:41:41 PM PDT by algore
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To: bosco24

“If it has a Rotary Dial, I’m on it.”

https://www.yankodesign.com/2020/02/12/someone-made-a-rotary-mobile-phone-and-it-looks-like-the-stuff-of-multiverses/

I remember there was a kit too


32 posted on 06/26/2025 1:44:47 PM PDT by algore
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To: Red Badger

I don’t like the square screen. It’s aesthetically unpleasing and it means videos will have to be cropped or resized downward.


33 posted on 06/26/2025 2:20:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Red Badger

Bring back Motorola Star-Tac. Best phone I ever had, 1997, in Egypt, worked great.


34 posted on 06/26/2025 2:51:59 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: algore

I have one of those still, and as well a 15c, 11c, and 41cv

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Still have a working 41CX.


35 posted on 06/26/2025 8:23:22 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Haha. My dad gave me his when I went to college. He tried to offer me his slide rulers but I passed. I wish I kept that slide ruler.


36 posted on 06/26/2025 8:23:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: A thermonuclear marshmallow

I miss the roller ball on my crackberry.


37 posted on 06/26/2025 8:24:18 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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