New images on Chinese social media site Weibo have seen of an Android phone with a QWERTY keypad. The post predicted that this could be the new BlackBerry Android phone set to release in 2017.BlackBerry CEO John Chen had officially confirmed last November that BlackBerry is working closely on a smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard.
The keyboard has been known as one of BlackBerry's great features, with some other former users still hoping for non-touchscreen smartphones.Like the DTEK50 and DTEK60, the upcoming BlackBerry devices are going to run by Android. BlackBerry hasn't released a new BB10 OS powered device in a couple of years now and it seems to do so going forward.
The BlackBerry Mercury
Two images were seen, a phone with a slim side-bezel design, a decent front camera, and ambient light sensors. The phone is set to run Android. The yet-to-be-launched handset also appears to be sporting capacitive buttons which are placed between the screen and the keyboard.BlackBerry Mercury was earlier spotted on some other sources website last October with the model number BlackBerry BBB100-1. It was showed that the phone is set to powered by a 2GHz Octa-core Qualcomm processor and to run Android 7.0 Nougat OS. The phone will have 3GB of RAM. The phone comes with a 913 on the single-core score and 5046 on the multi-core score.Sadly the pictures don't come with any information about the phone's specs. According to former rumors, the Mercury should come with an unusual 4.5-inch display which will support full HD (1080p) resolution.
No Confirmed Specs Aside From The QWERTY Keyboard
Other highlights of the phone include that it will include an 18-megapixel rear-facing camera, a secondary 8-megapixel camera in the front and under the hood is a 3,400 mAh battery. However, though, that none of these details has been officially confirmed yet. Stay tuned for more updates.
