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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Probably wouldn’t work on 5G systems...............
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).
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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.
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Need one that wipes their behinds.
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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.
If it has a Rotary Dial, I’m on it.
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.
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
I have one of those still, and as well a 15c, 11c, and 41cv
the one I use mostly is on my computer
“If it has a Rotary Dial, I’m on it.”
I remember there was a kit too
I don’t like the square screen. It’s aesthetically unpleasing and it means videos will have to be cropped or resized downward.
Bring back Motorola Star-Tac. Best phone I ever had, 1997, in Egypt, worked great.
I have one of those still, and as well a 15c, 11c, and 41cv
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Still have a working 41CX.
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.
I miss the roller ball on my crackberry.
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