This Tiny Smartphone Packs a Pocket-Friendly Physical Keyboard

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics, NBC Asian America, Increment, Fast Company and others. As a true Californian, he lives for coffee, beaches and burritos.

There are plenty of phones that look toward the future at MWC 2026, but only a few take inspiration from the past. 

The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is a pocket-sized handset with a physical keyboard that brings back BlackBerry nostalgia and introduces a ton of new tricks to boot. It's the latest in a series of phones from Unihertz, following its BlackBerry Passport-like Titan series.

Though the shift to glass touchscreens heralded by ...