Blackberry Are Making Their Way Back Into The Smartphone Market

Blackberry smartphones seem like a distant memory now. The company, unfortunately, scrapped its hardware division last year to focus on other endeavors. At the companyโ€™s peak, Blackberry sold 13.2 million units in just three months and was one of the top competitors in the mobile phone market.

A new teaser film released ahead of CES 2017 showcases a brand new smartphone being developed by TCL, the company that now owns the right to create Blackberry-branded devices. The clip may only be four seconds long, but it clearly shows a new smartphone that is built with a physical keyboard, something that is now practically unheard of in this day and age.

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This truly is a tease. No other information has been released regarding a new Blackberry phone, but it is still interesting to see that theyโ€™re opting for a physical keyboard instead of a touch-screen. Could physical keyboards be making a surprise comeback?

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