We saw, TCL CEO teasing the new Blackberry device Blackberry DTEK70 code-named Mercury in a short video and now the company’s CEO has shared more teasers that gives us more details about the Blackberry’s upcoming device. TCL is going to launch a new Blackberry device today in the official CES 2017 event with a QWERTY keyboard as we already know. The event will start at 11 AM PST today, January 4th which will also give us more details about the device.
The Blackberry Mercury was already leaked in a render and an image showing the device and now, a weibo user has shared a new render from the device that again confirms the QWERTY keyboard along with a 4.6-inch display. The device keyboard looks similar to the keyboard we saw in the official teaser video by TCL CEO for the DTEK70. On the rear side we have a big camera lens along with a dual-tone dual-LED flash and the Blackberry logo is available at the center on the rear side.
According to the past rumors, the Blackberry Mercury (DTEK70) will feature a 4.5-inch full-HD display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution along with a physical QWERTY keyboard. It will be powered by the quad-core Snapdragon 821 SoC that comes with the Adreno 530 GPU while the previous rumors were saying it to be the Snapdragon 625 SoC.
There will be a large battery available with this device that will be around 3400mAh. It will have a 18-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It will have 3GB RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage. Connectivity options expected are 4G LTE, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n (2.4 & 5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS.