Leak Alert: Blackberry DTEK70 (Mercury) To Be Introduced At CES 2017

Soon after the launch of BlackBerry Priv – the company’s very first Android phone went live in 2015, the rumors regarding the second Android-based model start taking the market by storm. Back in June this year, the rumors about BlackBerry launching three new smartphones, including code-named Neon, Argon, and Mercury took the market by storm. While the first two have already been revealed as Blackberry DTEK50 and Blackberry DTEK60, respectively, the third one has been grabbing the headlines since past couple of months. While last week, an anonymous render tipped the DTEK70 to hit the market in January 2016, recently a new leak has confirmed the phone to make its commercial debut at CSE 2017, which is scheduled for 3rd January 2017.

The phone Blackberry Mercury with the model number DTEK70 has recently spotted surfing online, giving some major goals about its design, specs, and functionalities. With the hyped QWERTY keyboard, a screenshot of Blackberry Mercury is recently shared by tipster Roland Quandt on the internet. As suggested by the fresh post, the BlackBerry Mercury will run on latest Android 7.0 Nougat. It is also expected to bear a curved 4.5-inch screen with the display resolution of 1080×1620 pixel paired with 420ppi pixel density.

The integrated QWERTY keyboard will lack the sliding capacity like the BlackBerry Priv used to have. In addition, the fingerprint scanner is found to be included below the space bar. The tipster also claimed that the BlackBerry Mercury will be exclusive to Verizon for the markets of the US. Under the hood, the smartphone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor with an extremely powerful and ultra-thin battery, which is claimed to make its lights on for two days on a single charge. The smartphone recently spotted on the Indonesian certification site, which in other ways confirmed it’s soon arrival.

As suggested by the previous leaks, the BlackBerry phone will pack 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory in the storage part. Similarly, the optical part of the phone will bear an18-megapixel snapper at the rear, and an 8-megapixel selfie shooter at the front.