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The QWERTY-toting Clicks Communicator phone finally gets a launch date

Digital Trends·Shimul Sood·about 1 month ago
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Somewhere out there is a person who still quietly mourns the death of the physical keyboard. They’ve mostly come to terms with their touchscreen. They’ve adapted, like everyone else. But every now and then, mid-fumble on a glass slab, the feeling comes back. The Clicks Communicator is being built for that person, and after months of dummy units and carefully managed hype, it finally has a timeline worth taking seriously. The BlackBerry faithful never really left The Clicks Communicator is born from grief, the specific lingering grief of people who genuinely loved physical keyboards and watched the entire industry abandon them without a second glance. The team behind it has been loud about that nostalgia, and there’s something both endearing and slightly mad about betting real money on it. They showed up to CES in January with dummy units, phones that looked the part but couldn’t do anything, and a promise to ship before the year was out.…

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