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You joke, but incredibly, a company no one has ever heard [1] of (and their background and funding sources are shall we say, sus) has licensed the BlackBerry na

You joke, but incredibly, a company no one has ever heard [1] of (and their background and funding sources are shall we say, sus) has licensed the BlackBerry name and claims it will be launching premium keyboard phones in the future. Of course, they promised this over a year ago and nothing has come of it (and I'll bet money it will never see the light of day), despite promises of a 2021 launch (which wouldn’t happen even if the chip crisis weren’t real), but it shows some people are still dumb enough to be convinced keyboard phones will make a comeback. [1]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200819005202/en/OnwardMobility-Announces-Agreements-BlackBerry-Foxconn-Subsidiary-FIH https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200819005202/en/Onw...

otabdeveloper4 5y ago
https://www.unihertz.com/ https://www.unihertz.com/ - not sure if "premium" or not, but they seem to be successful enough. It works when economies of scale are involved.
- filmgirlcw 5y ago
  Eh, debatable if the economics work for Unihertz or not. The volume is small and it is unclear how much money (if any) they are making.
- kgwxd 5y ago
  I used the Jelly 2 for a year and now I'm on the Titan Pocket. The Jelly 2 was fun but the screen size was just too small to type on. I don't do much typing on my phone, but when I had to, it was very painful. The Titan Pocket is OK. It's pretty much everything it claims to be. The only problem I have with it is that I can't get my various messaging and reminder apps (K-9, Slack, Teams) to stay alive in the background, so I'm not getting any notifications from them. I had the same problem with the Jelly 2, but turning off battery optimization for those apps fixed it, that's not working on Titan. Unihertz phones are so cheap, it's fun to play with them for awhile. Ultimately, I think I'll end up back on a medium sized (thankfully it's trendy again to downsize screens), touchscreen-only device, with a 3.5mm jack, hopefully running Linux.

otabdeveloper4 5y ago

https://www.unihertz.com/ https://www.unihertz.com/ - not sure if "premium" or not, but they seem to be successful enough. It works when economies of scale are involved.

filmgirlcw 5y ago
Eh, debatable if the economics work for Unihertz or not. The volume is small and it is unclear how much money (if any) they are making.
kgwxd 5y ago
I used the Jelly 2 for a year and now I'm on the Titan Pocket. The Jelly 2 was fun but the screen size was just too small to type on. I don't do much typing on my phone, but when I had to, it was very painful. The Titan Pocket is OK. It's pretty much everything it claims to be. The only problem I have with it is that I can't get my various messaging and reminder apps (K-9, Slack, Teams) to stay alive in the background, so I'm not getting any notifications from them. I had the same problem with the Jelly 2, but turning off battery optimization for those apps fixed it, that's not working on Titan. Unihertz phones are so cheap, it's fun to play with them for awhile. Ultimately, I think I'll end up back on a medium sized (thankfully it's trendy again to downsize screens), touchscreen-only device, with a 3.5mm jack, hopefully running Linux.