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A Sonim XP5 with a BlackBerry Pearl keyboard. Don't worry. It's not real. (Image: Sonim/Sascha Segan) Although TCL killed its license to make BlackBerry phones last year, the unkillable BlackBerry fandom lives on, buoyed by the promise of a quality smartphone with a hardware keyboard. The BlackBerry fandom's hopes were raised last August by the appearance of OnwardMobility, a new licensee that said it would make new BlackBerrys, but months later, people are asking: when will the new BlackBerry come out? OnwardMobility promises a BlackBerry smartphone during the "first half of 2021," but it's ...

The keyboard lives! While we wait for the upcoming 2021 BlackBerry smartphone, the keyboard aficionados at Planet Computers in the UK just showed us its first 5G entry, the Astro Slide 5G. Once dominant, keyboarded smartphones kick around the edges of the industry now. Planet, formed from Psion PDA die-hards, has made a few. There's also FxTec's Pro1 and upcoming Pro1 X. Onward Mobility, which bought the license to the BlackBerry name, promises a keyboarded BlackBerry smartphone this year. The Astro Slide's ridged keys look fun to type on. Planet has done a clamshell keyboarded phone before; ...