This Android telephone with a QWERTY keyboard is already a sizzling vendor

Whereas the smartphone market is at the moment dominated by slab telephones, we’re seeing a resurgence of curiosity in telephones with bodily keys. Along with a handful of unofficial BlackBerry revival tasks, just a few firms are additionally engaged on making QWERTY telephones well-liked once more, and one in every of them is Unihertz. Whereas Unihertz has a big portfolio of QWERTY telephones, the corporate lately showcased a compact and useful mannequin, referred to as Titan 2 Elite, at MWC 2026 and has shared particulars about its availability.

Earlier than the Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is made broadly accessible, the corporate is gauging curiosity with a Kickstarter marketing campaign. The marketing campaign, which went dwell solely yesterday, already has greater than 5,000 backers and roughly $2.6 million pledged on the time of writing, surpassing its preliminary $100,000 aim by 26 instances.

The Kickstarter web page lists a number of completely different tiers, ranging from $79, which solely will get entry to Unihertz’s VIP membership with early preview and details about new merchandise, however not the precise telephone, going all the best way as much as $4,690 for a “wholesale bundle” with 10 items of Titan 2 Elite Professional. An identical bundle with non-Professional variants prices $3,790. Deliveries are set to begin in June 2026.

It’s value noting that these costs are particular to Kickstarter and, due to this fact, decrease than the costs at which Unihertz plans to promote these units. The Titan 2 Elite is definitely priced at $489 and is being bought for $389 a bit. In the meantime, the Titan 2 Elite Professional can be accessible for $479 on Kickstarter, with the ultimate worth $579.

Should you’re questioning in regards to the variations between the 2 variants, the usual Titan 2 Elite includes a MediaTek Dimensity 7400 chip, whereas the Elite Professional has a extra highly effective Dimensity 8400 chip. The Professional additionally will get a better 512GB storage variant, whereas the non-Professional is proscribed to 256GB. The 2 variants are comparable on all the opposite grounds. Unihertz has additionally confirmed that the telephones are dearer than the earlier Titan sequence units as a result of restricted provide of RAM and storage modules, which can be why the corporate is giving two completely different choices for customers to select from, based mostly on their budgets.

To recap the opposite specs, Unihertz shares two QWERTY keypad telephones with a 4.03-inch AMOLED and a 120Hz refresh price, 12GB of RAM as customary, and twin 50MP rear cameras. The QWERTY keyboard is backlit and touch-sensitive, and the latter function permits scrolling by swiping your thumb over the keys.

Each variants additionally get a 4,050mAh Si-C battery, 33W charging, and are promised updates for the following 5 years, i.e., as much as Android 20.

The product is proscribed to particular international locations throughout Europe and Asia, in addition to in Australia, the UK, and the US. You’ll have to verify for availability whereas putting your order.