A Blackberry You Might Actually Want Just Landed On Kickstarter

When The Verge’s Allison Johnson went hands-on pinch nan company’s Titan 2 Elite phone astatine MWC 2026, Unihertz didn’t divulge pricing info. But nan compact Android telephone pinch a BlackBerry-inspired keyboard is now disposable for preorder done a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and starts astatine $489, pinch a discount for early backers bringing it down to $389. It’s expected to vessel arsenic early arsenic June 2026.

The Titan 2 Elite is simply a smaller and lighter type of Unihertz’s Titan 2 that debuted past June arsenic a modernized type of nan BlackBerry Passport. The Titan 2 Elite’s creation is much reminiscent of nan BlackBerry Bold lineup, but pinch a somewhat boxier creation to accommodate a 4.03-inch 120Hz AMOLED display. The Elite besides features Android 16 pinch OS upgrades promised to Android 20, 5G connectivity pinch dual nano SIMs and eSIM, fingerprint and look unlock, a 4,050mAh battery, and a afloat QWERTY keyboard that tin beryllium utilized arsenic a trackpad.

On nan backmost of nan Titan 2 Elite you’ll besides find a brace of 50MP cameras pinch telephoto capabilities, and a front-facing 32MP holepunch camera successful nan precocious near area of nan display.

Unihertz is offering 2 versions of its modernized BlackBerry. The modular Titan 2 Elite features a Dimensity 7400 processor pinch 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The somewhat much costly Titan 2 Elite Pro, which alternatively starts astatine $579 (but temporarily discounted to $479), has a faster Dimensity 8400 processor, a bump to 512GB of storage, and a 50MP telephoto camera upgraded pinch optical image stabilization capabilities.