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New BlackBerry Phone Planned by Third Party:
It looks like BlackBerry hardware is back from the brink of extinction once again. Today, the security startup OnwardMobility announced plans to release a new 5G BlackBerry smartphone with a physical keyboard. It could arrive in North America and Europe as soon as the first half of 2021.
This may sound familiar. A few years ago, BlackBerry seemed to be a thing of the past. Then, TCL agreed to manufacture two BlackBerry-branded phones. In February, TCL decided not to renew the deal with BlackBerry, and this month, it stopped selling the devices. Thanks to OnwardMobility, BlackBerry may get one more chance.
Also at Arstechnica and CNet.
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(Score: 1) by petecox on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:04AM
each to their own - Pinephone exposes pogo pins for expansion; in planning is a Nokia-style horizontal slider keyboard for ssh-ing while on the bus.
that said, if I were in the habit of regularly typing long streams of conciousness into work emails on a 5" phone, I'd probably just carry a keyboard and mouse in my backpack, connected via USB-OTG.