Blackberry Mercury preview: Fingerprint scanner and QWERTY keyboard for BB’s next flagship

Say hello to the next flagship BlackBerry phone, codename Mercury.

Looks like a beaut, doesn’t it? Only – and despite getting a preview session via new parent company TCL (which owns Alcatel) at CES 2017 – we don’t know a huge amount about the forthcoming phone. It’s all kept shtum for the time being, before a full unveil at Mobile World Congress later in the year.

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There are some obvious BlackBerry hallmarks in the Mercury: that full QWERTY keyboard being the most apparent. It has capacitive buttons that can be swiped across to control the Android handset, much like the BlackBerry Priv (and much-maligned Passport).

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