News & Reviews:   Blackberry Mercury

A short video posted by the General Manager of TCL in America hints that Blackberry is going to announce their (possibly last) QWERTY smartphone during CES2017. The video in question shows a quick glimpse of the code-name Mercury smartphone, showing the classic physical keyboard.

While the upcoming Blackberry Mercury (which we think will be called DTEK70 for obvious reasons) is set to feature a QWERTY keyboard, it may not be the last mode, if the reports are correct. A tweet by the president of TCL in America posted a cryptic post on the social media platform with the hashtag #TheNewBlackberry.

We have talked about the Blackberry Mercury – the last in-house designed Blackberry smartphone after the Priv. While the two most recent models were a collaboration with their manufacturing partner TCL, this model will be fully designed in-house, and will be the swan song of the design team at Blackberry.

If you remember last week we talked about a new smartphone coming from Blackberry with a physical keyboard? Well, BlackBerry CEO John Chen has confirmed in a TV interview that his company is in fact working on it, as a continuation of the range of smartphones from the company, which includes the Priv, DTEK50 and DTEK60.  

A brand that many may have forgotten, Blackberry is reported in the midst of developing three new models that runs Android. Codenamed Neon, Argon and Mercury, the report states that the three models will be for three different price ranges.