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The next BlackBerry phone may have keyboard, Android 7.0

BlackBerry may not be building its own phones anymore, but that doesn’t mean that the company’s new hardware partner TCL isn’t working on phones that have a distinctively BlackBerry look. A set of images purported to show a BlackBerry phone with a hardware keyboard have been making the rounds recently. Now Roland Quandt has posted […]

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TCL to unveil BlackBerry-branded phone plans at CES

BlackBerry may not be making its own smartphones anymore, but it looks like new BlackBerry-branded phones are coming soon. TCL and BlackBerry recently announced a global deal that will have TCL building Android with the BlackBerry name on them… and with BlackBerry’s communications, security, and other software. The deal didn’t come completely out of the blue: […]

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TCL will continue making BlackBerry-branded phones

BlackBerry’s two most recent smartphones weren’t actually built by BlackBerry. Instead, the DTEK50 and DTEK60 smartphones with Blackberry software and the BlackBerry name were designed and built by TCL, the company behind the Alcatel line of smartphones. Now it looks like the two companies will continue to work together… but in a slightly different way. […]

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TCL launches 17.3 inch Xess with Amazon Alexa integration (and a camera)

TCL is updating its Xess line of Android-based products with a new model featuring support for Amazon’s Alexa voice service. The Xess is a 17.3 inch touchscreen device that looks like a big tablet, or a small TV. But TCL is positioning the new model as a smart home hub. It’s available from Amazon for $500. Since […]

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Alcatel introduces Pop 4 XL smartphone and Pop 4 tablets

Alcatel is expanding its POP 4 line of budget devices with a new 6 inch phone and 7 and 10 inch tablets. The new Pop 4 XL and Pop 4 7 and 10 join the previously announced 5 inch Pop 4 smartphone, which has a 720p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 processor, 1GB of RAM and […]

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Upcoming TCL 950 could be the flagship phone the Alcatel Idol 4S isn’t (leaks)

Alcatel recently launched two new smartphones, the $400 Alcatel Idol 4S and the smaller, cheaper $200 Alcatel Idol 4. But it looks like the company that produces phones sold under the Alcatel brand has another model on the way, and leaks paint a picture of a phone with a faster processor, more RAM, and a higher resolution […]

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Now you can buy a TV with Roku baked in (or just buy a Roku box)

Roku makes some of the most popular boxes that you can plug into a TV to stream content from Netflix, HBO, Hulu Plus, Pandora, and hundreds of other internet services. Now you don’t need a separate box anymore… provided one of the new TVs that has Roku software pre-loaded. TV makers TCL and Hisense are now […]

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TCL T2 is an Android game console with an Allwinner A31 chip

Chinese electronics maker TCL is launching its first Android-powered video game console. It’s called the TCL T2, and it’s a small box with an Allwinner A31 quad-core processor, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean software, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage. It also comes with a wireless game controller… which looks kind of familiar. The TCL T2 […]