Physical keyboards are back: two new BlackBerry-style phones to launch in 2026
Modern QWERTY phones are still chasing BlackBerry nostalgia
Before touchscreens took over, America's best-selling smartphone was the BlackBerry Curve. To understand why, you have to remember what laptops and mobile life looked like in the late 2000s.
Today, you can simply type the name of a destination and instantly get a map with turn-by-turn directions to get there. These advancements predated the smartphone, thanks to a service called MapQuest.
The iPhone brought smartphones into the mainstream, but before there were Samsung Galaxy devices to contend with, a company called RIM made BlackBerry phones that looked more like tiny laptops.