BlackBerry Mercury hands-on

BlackBerry is nothing in need of a legend within the mobile realm. The complete simply matches the recognition of different titans, like Motorola or Nokia and continues to be similar with quality and increased security. The latter has been the staple of the Canadian company's existence, principally as a trusty enterprise communication solutions supplier over the previous couple of years.

2016 marked a transformation in BlackBerry's manner of conveyance mobile phones to the tip users. And therefore the BlackBerry Mercury is that the 1st device to signal the direction this alteration would be taking us.

BlackBerry went through some difficulty in recent years. Their 2 new models in 2016 - the DTEK50 and also the DTEK60 were made by the Chinese OEM TCL. At first, this move gave the look of BlackBerry was outsourcing the hardware producing to a third-party, that was rather contentious. The dispute encompassing the 2 models continuing as we have a tendency to discover that both phones were simply re-badged versions of existing Alcatel models. Of course, both additionally came loaded with BlackBerry's trademark security and communication suite on the package finish; however that did not amendment things abundant. We felt somewhat cheated as shoppers, and we began questioning what was occurring.

Then it all became clear once associate announcement in December 2016 explicit Blackberry would not manufacture hardware, selecting to specialize in code and services instead. The rights to the portable complete BlackBerry were being bimanual over to TCT, a completely in hand North American nation subsidiary of the Chinese TCL – same guys that own and manufacture the Alcatel phones. It became clear that TCT/TCL can stand behind BlackBerry phones within the future and also the BlackBerry Mercury is their 1st original product to come back out as associate embodiment of what the BlackBerry expertise can represent within the future.

The company was hesitant to reveal any hardware specifications at this time that is kind of uncommon having in minded they already had a pre-production device on show at CES 2017. Even so, we were  glad to find out that TCT/TCL's plans for the BlackBerry devices go manner on the far side an easy rebranding theme and that they were very desirous to build this copiously clear at CES 2017.

So, it’s currently the time to induce our hopes up and simply however so much has the new partnership come? We have a tendency to totally enjoy each second of our active time with the BlackBerry Mercury and cannot wait to share our impressions on consecutive page.