R10,999 BlackBerry-inspired smartphone lands in South Africa

[Luis]

The closest thing to a new BlackBerry lands in South Africa and it costs R10,999

Unihertz, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has made its Titan 2 Elite and Elite Pro devices available for pre-order in South Africa for R10,999.

This is great news for people who want to relive the much-loved era of physical keyboards on handsets, popularised by BlackBerry.

 

[Rickster]

This is kind of sick, would like a trackpad like a BB had because I dislike scrolling on the screen.

Even better would be a jog wheel like the SE P910i had, was awesome to navigate.

 

[My_King]

BlackBerry had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing aint right, bam-ba-lam

 

[Ecco]

I dont know if i would like to have to press buttons an small keyboard like that. Was okay back in the day, but now, you only need a light tap on the screen to register a press

 

[werfie]

Does it come with a leather sleeve? If not, no deal.

 

[konfab]

The Titan 2 Elite Pro features a more powerful MediaTek Dimensity 8400, which is also combined with 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM. Unihertz increased internal storage to 512GB for the Titan 2 Elite Pro.

So you are paying R11k to have a phone with multicore performance in the same region as an iPhone 12, and single core in the same as an iPhone11.


You can pick up an iPhone 16e, 128GB for the same price.
https://www.amazon.co.za/iPhone-16e...402780399003&language=en_ZA&gad_source=1&th=1

 

[ShaunSA]

Those BB keys were kak!

Either that or I have a huge digit

 

[airborne]

Those BB keys were kak!

Either that or I have a huge digit

Good old Oom sausage fingers has joined the chat

 

[Nerfherder]

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So you are paying R11k to have a phone with multicore performance in the same region as an iPhone 12, and single core in the same as an iPhone11.


You can pick up an iPhone 16e, 128GB for the same price.
https://www.amazon.co.za/iPhone-16e...402780399003&language=en_ZA&gad_source=1&th=1

ya but then you have to own an iPhone....

 

[Smiggles]

Chinese ewaste

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Geez, my ancient iPhone 12 mini is faster and the screen is bigger.

 

[konfab]

We all know the market for this though, it will be some boomer who will send voice notes anyway.

 

[EL'Diablo]

BlackBerry had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing aint right, bam-ba-lam

i almost followed through with "chicken in the corn" then i was like wait hold up, this is a Betty reference

 

[FiestaST]

MrMobile (Michael F) would love this thing!

 

[Randomwasavailable]

Looks like the mongrel child of an iPhone 17, Pixel, and BlackBerry. Sick stuff.

 

[warwickw]

Clicks Communicator that is coming out looks a little better

Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion

Clicks Communicator is phone purpose-built for taking action and communicating in a noisy world with deeper context, versatile input and greater control in a compact design.

clicks.tech

 

[Randomwasavailable]

Good old Oom sausage fingers has joined the chat

If your one finger is too big, just use a smaller one, since, you seem to have been typing with the fat one only.

 

[Randomwasavailable]

What problem are the button devices trying to solve? What is the value added? I like horses, but not as my daily driver.

 

[labratza]

Did I miss it or has the OS not been mentioned?

 

[naughty001]

Did I miss it or has the OS not been mentioned?

doesn't seem to be mentioned but looking at the icons in the pics makes it seem like its some version of android

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So you are paying R11k to have a phone with multicore performance in the same region as an iPhone 12, and single core in the same as an iPhone11.


You can pick up an iPhone 16e, 128GB for the same price.
https://www.amazon.co.za/iPhone-16e...402780399003&language=en_ZA&gad_source=1&th=1

Just like you i would also look at more usable phones like this Apple mentioned or a Samsung S25FE if you are of the Android persuasion