Lilbits: Zinwa’s Android-powered BlackBerry Key2 clone, Razer’s laptop sleeve with wireless charging, and Android 17 Beta 2

A small Chinese team called Zinwa have been making modern BlackBerry-style smartphones in small batches for a little while… first by literally stuffing the actual shells of old BlackBerry phones with modern motherboards running Android software, and more recently by developing new phones with designs that are heavily influenced by BlackBerry.

Now Zinwa has shared a teaser for an upcoming […]

Much to the chagrin of GF, and amusement of friends I'm still rocking a #Blackberry #KEY2 as my daily drive. Released in 2018 its battery needs a mid afternoon boost to make it thru the day, but its still android and it still runs everything, albeit slowly.

Whenever I get a fishy email (like one of those addy book hijack mails) from a legit contact/friend, I fwd the url to my K2 to open. I figure any #malware or #virus would realize where it is, go *WTF* and simply refuse to execute.

@iamstu I get disapproving looks in public (and the kids roll their eyes) but I'm still rocking my #KEY2 - the last #Blackberry !

Before then I had a PRIV (the slider), though I never used the keyboard; phone felt... unwieldly when the keyboard was out. Before that, a Z10 - last of the removable batteries - which only had on-screen keyboard.

I tell you, I've fallen for the KEY2. If this one dies, I'll probably find a refurb KEY2. Is it fast? no. But it just *works*.. at least for what I need.