BlackBerry will release one last own phone with a physical keyboard

John Chen, the president of BlackBerry, said in an interview that the company is developing its last smartphone with a keyboard. According to the director, the phone will be released in a ‘not too long time’.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Chen says that the DTEK60, contrary to what the interviewer suggests, is not the last phone from Blackberry. “There will be another one. Maybe we’ll call it the last in-house phone, but once we’ve made the segment profitable again, and we’ve seen opportunities going forward, we’ll work with some of our partners to build one,” he says. He says it will be a phone with a physical keyboard.

The verdict is in line with stories that circulated in July. Venturebeat then said the company would release three more devices. The specifications that the website published with the first two devices correspond exactly to the DTEK50 and DTEK60 that have been released since then.

The third concept that Venturebeat showed has a physical keyboard. According to the website, the device has a 4.5″ screen with an aspect ratio of 3:2 and a full HD resolution. The soc is a Snapdragon 625, which is accompanied by 3GB of ram and 32GB of storage. The battery is supposed to be 3400mAh. are large and the front and rear cameras have 8- and 18-megapixel sensors respectively.

In September, BlackBerry announced that the company would stop producing smartphones. The company continues to license its brand name and Android skin so that third parties can continue to make branded devices.

The DTEK50 and DTEK60 are examples of this new strategy. The devices are based on existing models from Alcatel. However, at the time of writing, there is no model on the market that resembles the keypad phone concept. This phone may be the last device that BlackBerry designs itself.

BlackBerry’s ‘Mercury’ concept.