This information is known on account tweet BlackBerry Mobile, @BBMobile, on Twitter. As quoted by CNET, Wednesday (25/01/2016), tweet it is information BlackBerry event to be held on February 25, 2017, accompanied by a short video (teaser) BlackBerry Mercury.
Based on the video display, Mercury design is the same as had appeared when the mat CES 2017. Smartphone that brings classic BlackBerry design that comes with a physical keyboard.
Only, it has not been established official name of the device, given Mercury touted is still a code. Some analysts predict that the name will be used later is DTEK70, continuing the previous two series already comes first.
Unfortunately, information regarding the specifications owned the smartphone is still unknown to this day. Nevertheless, outstanding issues Mercury is a device called the BlackBerry middle class.
This smartphone will reportedly be equipped with Snapdragon 625 chipset and 3GB RAM.
For business shooting, Mercury has a 18MP main camera and 8MP front camera. Given the specifications included to the mid segment, there is the possibility of a price tag similar to DTEK50 Mercury.
For your information, DTEK50 priced at US $ 299. To you who are curious as to what form of BlackBerry Mercury, can see in the following link.
Mercury was carrying the physical buttons. GSM Arena on Wednesday (11/1/20117) had been doing hands-on Mercury to the mat CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Las Vegas some time ago.
As can be seen in the figure below, the Mercury-sized body because it also carries a physical keyboard.
The keyboard is solid black like a typical keyboard BlackBerry classic, while the screen on it is a touch screen equipped with three Android navigation buttons.
TCL himself revealed that Mercury will be introduced in the mat MWC (Mobile World Congress) to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2017.
Although no details of other Mercury specifications, such as screen size and processor, some of that information had already been widely circulated on the Internet.
Some of them are Android 7.0 operating system Nougat, 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1620 x 1080 pixels, batteries 3.400mAh, octa-core Snapdragon chipset 625 and Adreno 506 GPU.
The smartphone was also predicted to have 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, 18MP rear camera, front camera and 8MP.