Mercury has a name, but there are still lots of questions remaining.
The BlackBerry `Mercury` isn`t new — you saw it at CES — but the company behind the new phone, BlackBerry Mobile, has been trickle-announcing the hardware QWERTY flagship, teasing it to hardcore CrackBerry addicts who came of age tapping away on Bolds and Curves.
But this is a new BlackBerry — the phone itself is made by TCL, under the eponymous Waterloo company`s brand — and the first in a series of devices set to be released this year, next year, and if successful, well beyond. This is the BlackBerry KEYone.
Now that we know more about the phone, I`m happy to report that it`s actually quite nice. The aluminum frame is solid and the design is anything but pedestrian, with overtly curved sides meeting a flat-top frame and exposed antenna lines. There`s an old-school industrial feel to the whole thing that I really dig — the dual tones of black and silver work really well here, ...
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