The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is an upcoming smartphone that's designed to look a lot like old smartphones... the kind that were released before capacitive touch displays were a thing and physical keyboards were all the rage. After previewing the phone in January, Unihertz is showing off the phone at MWC this week. The company plans to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign…

The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is a brand new phone that looks like a blast from the past. With a design inspired by classic BlackBerry smartphones, the Titan 2 Elite features a 4.03 inch square display positioned above a thumb keyboard. But it has a thoroughly modern spec sheet, including a 120 Hz AMOLED touchscreen display, a MediaTek Dimensity processor, 12GB of LPDDR5 memory, and Android 16 software.

Over the past few years we've seen a number of efforts to bring physical keyboards back to smartphones. But we've also seen a growing number of efforts to make smartphones... less smart, as a way to ensure they're less distracting and addictive. The Keyphone falls into both categories. It's a relatively simple feature phone that runs a stripped down version of Android 15 that only comes with a small number of applications.

The Zinwa Q27 is an upcoming smartphone that's designed to look like a classic BlackBerry device, complete with a QWERTY keyboard. But it also features modern components like an AMOLED display, MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, and Android 16 software. While the Zinwa Q27 isn't expected to be available until the second quarter of 2026 at the earliest, Zinwa unveiled specs earlier this year…

This Clicks Communicator is a modern smartphone with some classic design features. It has an AMOLED touchscreen display, Android operating system, and support for 5G and wireless charging. But it also has a small screen, a physical keyboard, a microSD card reader and a notification LED. If the result is a phone that looks like a modern take on a BlackBerry, that's very much intentional.

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The Zinwa Q27 is a smartphone that combines modern features with classic BlackBerry design. In fact, it looks a lot like the BlackBerry Classic that was released in 2014. But the Zinwa Q27 is an Android phone with a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, 12GB of RAM, and support for 5G networks, among other things. But it stands out from most modern smartphones thanks to a relatively small 4 inch, 1080 x 1240 pixel AMOLED display positioned above a thumb keyboard. First announced nearly a year ago, the Zinwa Q27 is now…

It's easy to get distracted these days, thanks to the portable supercomputers in our pockets. Last year, a project aimed to strip things back to basics with a phone sporting a monochrome E Ink display,...

Folks have been making a rather persuasive argument for decades that if you watch "free" TV that's supported by advertising, maybe you're not actually the customer... advertisers are. And you're the product they're paying to reach. So it was probably just a matter of time before someone took that to the next level and decided that not only should TV programs…