It was a dark and stormy night. The Microsoft Windows phone funeral was in progress. The crowd was sparse and huddled under umbrellas. Standing in the dark, cold rain was a fresh but familiar face.

BERLIN—The KeyOne is an Android-powered smartphone with an an excellent keyboard and some unique BlackBerry customization. And it seems to be a hit in new markets like China, often selling out in a ...

The KEYone is made by TCL and it runs Google's Android operating system, but this phone clearly has the heart and soul of a BlackBerry beating within. BlackBerry and TCL designed the KEYone together ...

The first big phone announcement of Mobile World Congress goes to TCL and BlackBerry, with the two companies unveiling the BlackBerry KeyOne tonight here in Barcelona. The KeyOne is the final version ...

BlackBerry has been trying hard to make its name commonplace in the smartphone market, and a huge part of that was a deal with TCL that brought us the keyboard-toting BlackBerry Keyone. Personally, I ...

With a global launch in the works and the hopes of diehards at an all-time high, the pressure was on BlackBerry and TCL to deliver on all that Mercury hype. We can't render an official verdict yet, ...

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Here’s what I think is going to happen to smartphones. Today, most name-brand smartphones look and feel about the same. The trend with the latest top-end phones is to shrink the borders around the ...

You've got to give BlackBerry credit for refusing to die. After the underwhelming launch and life of BB10, the company pledged allegiance to Android, whipped up a strangely cool slider phone, then ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. Manufactured and sold under licence by TCL, the KeyOne specifications ...

The BlackBerry KEYone, which goes on sale in its home country of Canada today, is a weird device. But it’s weird not because it wasn’t designed in-house, and instead was handled by partner TCL; it’s ...

The KeyOne is a device from an alternative timeline where BlackBerry didn’t completely whiff and miss the touchscreen revolution. In that parallel universe, Biff Tannen wasn’t elected president and ...