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If you balk at typing on the boring glass screen of your smartphone and pine for the glory days of tapping out numerous emails in your BlackBerry Bold with out taking a look at the keyboard, there’s a new phone coming quickly that might be your dream gadget.

The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is an Android phone that ditches trendy conference by melding a 4.03-inch sq. OLED show with 120Hz refresh price and a QWERTY keyboard beneath, that, like the traditional BlackBerry Passport, can be utilized as a trackpad because of capacitive sensors.

There’s a 32MP selfie digital camera cut-out in the prime left of the screen for video calling with twin 50MP rear digital camera, plus the stable MediaTek Dimensity 7400 chipset with 12GB RAM and a 4,050mAh battery, in keeping with Android Authority.

The upcoming Titan 2 Elite has been teased online and proven off to press at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this previous week, however there’s no phrase on price. Unihertz at present sells its Titan 2 Android keyboard phone for $399.99.

In reality, if you wish to get your fingers on this dinky gadget and get these thumbs a’tapping, you’ll should pledge money in the direction of it on Kickstarter when it goes reside later this month. You can signal up for updates on the phone from Unihertz right here.

In the above press image you may see Unihertz totally leaning into the identical brushed orange color discovered on the newest iPhone 17 Pro, although for the subtler amongst us, there’s all the time the black.

While there appears to be a button on the facet that may be programmed to do what you need, together with a SIM card slot, The Verge stories there may be no headphone jack, which can disappoint true nostalgia heads. There is nonetheless an IR blaster, so that you’ll be capable to control your telly along with your phone, which is all the time enjoyable.

If the Titan 2 Elite genuinely looks as if it might be your important phone and never simply a curio gadget to tinker with, Unihertz is promising 5 years of software program updates up to and together with Android 2020, with security patches till 2031.

For a area of interest Android phone with an precise keyboard in 2026, that’s a stable promise that I hope the firm can ship on for the possible small however positively passionate group of people who will instantly buy the Titan 2 Elite when it’s accessible.