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New BlackBerry with hardware keyboard to launch during CES

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A new BlackBerry is coming.

We knew it was coming, but BlackBerry’s long-awaited ‘Mercury’ handset is set to be announced at CES.

A teaser of the keyboard-sporting BlackBerry handset, which is now designed, overseen and built by TCL, Alcatel’s parent company, was shown by Steve Cistulli, President of TCL, prior to the start of CES.

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In mid-December, BlackBerry and TCL formalized their relationship, officially making the Canadian outfit a software company. TCL will still release BlackBerry-branded handsets, for which the former telecom giant will build the Android software.

According to previous rumors, the new keyboarded ‘Mercury’ will feature an unusual 1620×1080 resolution with a 420 ppi pixel density, which works out to a 4.63-inch display size. There’s also expected to be a Snapdragon processor of some sort (perhaps the 625), 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage.

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