Look at this Kickstarter project and tell me a BlackBerry comeback wouldn’t soar
The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is a BlackBerry-esque phone with a QWERTY keyboard. And it's going great guns on Kickstarter.
If the success of the Clicks Keyboard case didn’t convince you there’s still a market for a Blackberry-style phone with a QWERTY keyboard, perhaps the high demand for the new Titan 2 Elite might.
The Android 16 handset, previewed at MWC 2026 last month, has hit the crowdfunding page Kickstarter promising “the 5G keyboard phone you’ve been waiting for.” It has already attracted $2.5 million in funding, smashing its modest $100,000 target.
At the time of writing 5,345 backers have supported the project from Chinese smartphone manufacturer Unihertz. The phones will ship in June and October this year (always an estimate rather than a promise with Kickstarter projects). The standard Titan 2 Elite lands first in June and is $396 to early birds. It will be $489 to everyone else. The Titan 2 Elite Pro is coming in the autumn. It has a pledge price of $486 and a full price of $579.
The only differences between the phones are the processors doing the heavy lifting, and the amount of storage. The standard model offers a MediaTek Dimensity 7400 chip with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The extra expenditure for the Pro model gets you the newer Dimensity 8400 SoC with 12GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.
Keys are good
Other than that, it’s the same device. The real QWERTY keyboard offers customisable keys with short and long press shortcuts for each letter. The surface of the keyboard can also be swiped to scroll and browse content, or move the cursor. Mouse mode offers a touchpad like experience.
A 4.03-inch AMOLED screen is supplemented by a pair of cameras – 50-megapixels on the front and 32-megapixels on the back. The battery capacity of 4,050mAh should be enough to get you through the day considering the silicon on board and the size of the display being powered.
Elsewhere there’s dual-band GPS, biometric security via face and fingerprint, Bluetooth 6 and 5G everywhere you go. There’s a pair of SIM card slots and support for eSIMs too. If you’re feeling saucy you can also bung a microSD card in one of the SIM slots to expand your storage by up to 2TB.
Chris Smith
