Turning your cellphone into an old style BlackBerry simply obtained simpler

Clicks, the smartphone peripheral firm identified for its line of bodily keyboard case accessories, is coming into the New Yr with a bang. To kick off the 2026 calendar 12 months, the corporate has formally introduced two main new merchandise within the type of the Clicks Energy Keyboard and the Clicks Communicator.

In a freshly uploaded YouTube video, the Clicks crew showcases each new devices in motion, with insights from co-founders Michael Fisher, Jeff Gadway, and Kevin Michaluk (the latter two of whom are CMO and President of the corporate, respectively). Co-founder and CEO Adrian Li Mow Ching additionally makes an look close to the tip of this introduction video, relaying private anecdotes referring to the Clicks model extra broadly.

“It is by no means simply been about keyboards. At a time when tech appears to feed distraction and doom scrolling, Clicks is taking a stand for motion and doing,” says Ching in the promotional video. “We’re constructing a crew with a ardour for purpose-built tech designed for doers, not doom scrollers. What we have shared at present is a product technique that’ll information us into the longer term.”

With each the Energy Keyboard and the Communicator, Clicks is pitching a tech ecosystem that melds collectively the retro-futurism of physical mobile keyboards with the need for digital minimalism and detoxing, all of which is purpose-built for speaking with out all the additional noise. The Energy Keyboard seems to resolve the non-universality of earlier Clicks Keyboard Cases, whereas the Communicator is a stand-alone product designed as a secondary smartphone companion gadget.

Clicks Energy Keyboard

Universality, magnetism, and full of energy

Not like present Clicks keyboard circumstances, the place every mannequin is molded to suit a selected cellphone chassis, the $109 USD / $150 CAD Energy Keyboard is a common accent that works with all MagSafe and Qi 2.2 smartphones, along with different good units that function Bluetooth connectivity. Quite than counting on USB-C for energy and bandwidth, this new product connects wirelessly and depends on inductive charging and magnets to stick and to interface along with your cellular devices.

In a homage to slider-style keyboard smartphones just like the BlackBerry Torch and the Palm Pre, the Clicks Energy Keyboard encompasses a sliding mechanism that permits you to disguise the keyboard when not in use. There are two separate ‘open’ states for accommodating telephones of various sizes, and the magnetic nature of its mounting system permits for horizontal utilization à la the LG Wing.

As an added bonus, the Clicks Energy Keyboard doubles as a conveyable exterior energy financial institution, letting you high up on battery life throughout use, and including the pliability to kind on the keyboard remotely through its triple Bluetooth pairing system. This latter functionality is beneficial in that it permits you to join the pocketable keyboard to a number of different good units like TV set-top bins and XR devices for handy bodily keypressing.

The Clicks Energy Keyboard is obtainable now for pre-order in each the US and Canada, with delivery anticipated to start within the Spring. For a restricted time solely, clients who pre-order the product can accomplish that for a reduced value of $80 USD / $111 CAD. At launch, the peripheral is obtainable in a single onyx (black) colorway.

Clicks Communicator

The Blackberry, modernized for 2026

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In a shock transfer, Clicks additionally introduced the $500 USD Communicator, a full-fledged smartphone-like system which the corporate describes as being “a brand new sort of cellular communicator.” Comparable in visible model to the enduring BlackBerry Daring line of yore, the Communicator encompasses a devoted front-facing bodily keyboard, a 4.03-inch AMOLED show panel with a shorter-than-usual facet ratio, a 50-megapixel rear-facing digicam, and a 24-megapixel front-facing shooter, and a devoted (and reprogrammable) Clicks Key for launching customized shortcut actions.

Whereas it is unknown which processor shall be powering the Communicator, we do know that it will ship with 256GB of inner storage, and that it will include a 4,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery. Different key specs embrace Qi2 wi-fi charging assist, a USB-C charging port, NFC, and swappable backplates. Along with having each eSIM and NanoSIM compatibility, the handset additionally options a number of throwback niceties, like expandable MicroSD card support, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an alert slider swap.

Much like sure later-era BlackBerry handsets just like the Priv and the Key line, the Clicks Communicator encompasses a capacitive fingerprint sensor embedded into its house bar key, and your entire keyboard part doubles as a touch-sensitive trackpad for swiping throughout the person interface. Uniquely, a Sign LED ring gentle is constructed into the facility key of the Communicator, with customizable coloration choices that may be programmed for various contacts or utility notifications. These lights might be turned off with the flick of the aforementioned alert toggle.

Talking of software program, the Communicator runs Android 16 out of the field, full with native assist for Google’s Strongbox safe storage API. Most apparently of all, the cellphone ships with a bespoke Android residence display screen setup designed in collaboration with the Niagara Launcher crew. This launcher locations messages entrance and heart, relatively than counting on the extra typical grid of icons discovered on most fashionable smartphone launchers.

The Clicks Communicator is obtainable now via a precedence entry reservation system within the US, with choices to both pay a $200 USD reservation deposit, or to pay the complete value whereas receiving a bonus of two free again covers (a $100 USD worth). Reservations made earlier than February 27 qualify for a locked early fowl value of $400 USD. A precise launch date hasn’t been specified as but, and last colorway choices are nonetheless unconfirmed.