Published On: Tue, Mar 10th, 2026

Return of the BlackBerry? New Android phone brings back the keyboard


If you balk at typing on the dull glass screen of your smartphone and pine for the glory days of tapping out countless emails on your BlackBerry Bold without looking at the keyboard, there’s a new phone coming soon that could be your dream device.

The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is an Android phone that ditches modern convention by melding a 4.03-inch square OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and a QWERTY keyboard underneath, that, like the classic BlackBerry Passport, can be used as a trackpad thanks to capacitive sensors.

There’s a 32MP selfie camera cut-out in the top left of the screen for video calling with dual 50MP rear camera, plus the solid MediaTek Dimensity 7400 chipset with 12GB RAM and a 4,050mAh battery, according to Android Authority.

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

In fact, if you want to get your hands on this dinky device and get those thumbs a’tapping, you’ll have to pledge money towards it on Kickstarter when it goes live later this month. You can sign up for updates on the phone from Unihertz here.

In the above press image you can see Unihertz fully leaning into the same brushed orange colour found on the latest iPhone 17 Pro, though for the subtler amongst us, there’s always the black.

While there seems to be a button on the side that can be programmed to do what you want, along with a SIM card slot, The Verge reports there is no headphone jack, which will disappoint true nostalgia heads. There is however an IR blaster, so you’ll be able to control your telly with your phone, which is always fun.

If the Titan 2 Elite genuinely seems like it could be your main phone and not just a curio gadget to tinker with, Unihertz is promising five years of software updates up to and including Android 2020, with security patches until 2031.

For a niche Android phone with an actual keyboard in 2026, that’s a solid promise that I hope the firm can deliver on for the likely small but definitely passionate group of people who will immediately buy the Titan 2 Elite when it is available.





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