Turning your cellphone into an old style BlackBerry simply received simpler

Clicks, the smartphone peripheral firm identified for its line of bodily keyboard case accessories, is getting into the New 12 months with a bang. To kick off the 2026 calendar yr, 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 group 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 group with a ardour for purpose-built tech designed for doers, not doom scrollers. What we have shared immediately 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 cleansing, all of which is purpose-built for speaking with out all the additional noise. The Energy Keyboard seems to unravel 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 filled with energy

In contrast to 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 gadgets that function Bluetooth connectivity. Slightly 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 cell devices.

In a homage to slider-style keyboard smartphones just like the BlackBerry Torch and the Palm Pre, the Clicks Energy Keyboard includes a sliding mechanism that permits you to conceal 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 prime up on battery life throughout use, and including the flexibleness to sort on the keyboard remotely by way of its triple Bluetooth pairing system. This latter functionality is helpful in that it enables you to join the pocketable keyboard to a number of different good gadgets like TV set-top bins and XR devices for handy bodily keypressing.

The Clicks Energy Keyboard is offered now for pre-order in each the US and Canada, with delivery anticipated to start within the Spring. For a restricted time solely, prospects who pre-order the product can achieve this for a reduced worth of $80 USD / $111 CAD. At launch, the peripheral is offered 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 type of cell communicator.” Related in visible model to the long-lasting BlackBerry Daring line of yore, the Communicator includes a devoted front-facing bodily keyboard, a 4.03-inch AMOLED show panel with a shorter-than-usual side ratio, a 50-megapixel rear-facing digital camera, 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 will likely be powering the Communicator, we do know that it will ship with 256GB of inside 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.

Just like sure later-era BlackBerry handsets just like the Priv and the Key line, the Clicks Communicator includes a capacitive fingerprint sensor embedded into its house bar key, and the complete keyboard part doubles as a touch-sensitive trackpad for swiping throughout the consumer interface. Uniquely, a Sign LED ring gentle is constructed into the facility key of the Communicator, with customizable colour choices that may be programmed for various contacts or utility notifications. These lights could 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 curiously of all, the cellphone ships with a bespoke Android residence display setup designed in collaboration with the Niagara Launcher group. This launcher locations messages entrance and middle, moderately than counting on the extra typical grid of icons discovered on most trendy smartphone launchers.

The Clicks Communicator is offered now by means of a precedence entry reservation system within the US, with choices to both pay a $200 USD reservation deposit, or to pay the total price whereas receiving a bonus of two free again covers (a $100 USD worth). Reservations made earlier than February 27 qualify for a locked early chicken worth of $400 USD. An actual launch date hasn’t been specified as but, and ultimate colorway choices are nonetheless unconfirmed.