Blackberry Mercury, the smartphone could have a physical keyboard

Blackberry would seem ready to return to the phone market with Mercury, a touch smartphone with a physical keyboard. Waiting for the presentation

After Nokia, another great return in the world of smartphones is announced. We're talking about Blackberry: the Canadian company, only a few months ago announced a pause for reflection from the world of telephony, but now it seems that it wants to return with a new smartphone with physical keyboard.

The announcement came directly from John Chen, CEO of the company, which confirmed the arrival in 2017 of a new device signed Blackberry. For the presentation will have to wait for the CES 2017 in Las Vegas or most likely the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. On Weibo, Chinese microblogging platform, have also appeared the first images of the alleged Blackberry Mercury: the device features the particular coupling touch screen with physical keyboard. In fact, the Canadian company did not want to abandon the keyboard, a true symbol of its cell phones.

Features Blackberry Mercury

From the latest rumors, the Blackberry Mercury should mount a 4.5-inch screen with FullHD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The device should mount a Qualcomm Snapdragon octa-core chipset supported by 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. The camera compartment should consist of an 8-megapixel front camera and an 18-megapixel rear camera. For the rest is still all shrouded in mystery: but a few months will be enough and we will finally see the return of Blackberry in the world of telephony.