Blackberry to announce BlackBerry Mercury at MWC 2017 on February 25

Earlier this month at the CES 2017 event, TCL teased the upcoming Blackberry device with a physical keyboard called Blackberry Mercury or DTEK70. Now, Blackberry has announced that the new Blackberry Mercury will be announced at the MWC 2017 on February 25th in an official event. The company announced the news via their new Twitter account posting an invite for the event. The invite comes with the device itself with the event date on the screen of the device.

The Blackberry Mercury will be the Android powered smartphone that will be manufactured by TCL led and the Chinese manufacturer will launch it at the MWC 2017 event. The Blackberry Mercury is expected to launch with a 4.5-inch display along with a physical QWERTY keyboard and 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 with this device 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.

Past rumors said that the Blackberry Mercury will feature a 4.5-inch full HD display with a physical QWERTY keyboard and will be powered by a 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 625 14nm processor with Adreno 506 GPU instead of the Snapdragon 821 SoC. It will have 3GB of RAM and 32GB internal storage with expandable microSD expandable storage. It will feature a 18-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It will be powered by a 3400mAh battery and connectivity options includes 4G LTE, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n (2.4 & 5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS. it is rumored to come with a 3400mAh battery.