Although very few manufacturers currently offer a solution in the form of a physical keyboard as an accessory (Samsung), practically no manufacturer has smartphones with a physical keyboard. BlackBerry still thinks that the keyboard is a suitable method to interact with the smartphone And anyone who has used a BlackBerry with this type of keyboard will recognize that it is much more agile, faster and more comfortable than writing on the screen, although we have already gotten used to it and the writing speed is also very high, but not comfortable .
BlackBerry announced last September that it was stopping manufacturing devices, offering the manufacturing and use license to a third party, TCL, but based on the Canadian manufacturer's designs. The next model to hit the market, we still don't know when, will be the BlackBerry Mercury, which will be presented almost in all probability at the next CES, which is held in January in Las Vegas. From time to time we have been publishing photographs or captures of how this device will be, but in none of them we could see any measurable reference to get an idea of how big it will be.
These images allow us to get an idea of what the BlackBerry Mercury will be like, a device that we see in the images will hit the market with Android 7. The 4,5-inch screen will offer us a resolution of 1620 x 1080, with 420 ppi, the fingerprint sensor will be integrated into the space bar. Inside it seems that we will not finally find the Snapdragon 821 but that the company will opt for the Snapdragon 625, so that the battery consumption can be extended to at least two days. At the moment no information on the price and availability has been leaked, but taking into account the processor and that the DTEK with the Snapdragon 821 is at 599 euros, it is likely that this terminal will be between 400 and 500 euros.