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BlackBerry Will Never Die! - DTNS Weekend

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

At CES 2026, Robb talked with CrackBerry Kevin about the upcoming Clicks Communicator. They reminisced about old times and their love for the BlackBerry Bold series of devices before getting an overview of the Clicks Communicator. 


They also talked about the brand new Clicks Power Keyboard, Clicks for Moto Razr, and why we probably won't see a Clicks for Samsung Galaxy Flip.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So before we get started, you guys know that I am at Blackberry Fiend, and I'm still very upset

0:05.1

that research in motion, that's what I'm going to call the company. They didn't handle

0:08.5

things, right? That's old school. That's old school proper. I will never call them Blackberry.

0:13.1

Their rim, as far as I can serve. But this guy had a little website called crackberry.com.

0:19.5

And 15 years ago, we were competing with each other to see who can get the article first to get it out. We had some fun. Yeah, we had some fun. It was a different era. That was the golden age of tech journalists, I think. It really was. We did a lot of stuff that didn't, I don't know, I'm surprised that it ended up in jail. I got a lot of sense and desists. I got that last. We have fun. Celebrity Blackbracite, he's got shut down.

0:38.1

Very good. I don't know. I'm surprised that it ended up in... I got a lot of cease and desist. I got that much.

0:55.7

We have fun. Celebrity Blackberry side. He's got shut down very, very quickly when I got some really, really official looking certified mail. I like that site. And then I started doing them after you shut it down. And then we got some others too. But we're still here. We're good. But it looks like clicks. You guys are giving me my tactile feelback.

0:56.3

They are.

0:55.7

This is... We're good. But it looks like clicks, you guys are giving me my tactile feel back. We are.

0:56.5

I mean, this is 2026 is the year.

1:00.5

You're going to have something that gets you excited again like 10, 15 years ago.

1:06.0

And yeah, I mean, this is, this is my dream built true because we got sick of sort of waiting around,

1:14.5

hoping that when we get something that got that energy and excitement back, and, you know, for me,

1:20.5

this is our third year at this event. When we started the first year, it was clicks for iPhone.

1:27.9

Last year, we showed off clicks for Android. Had a lot of fun with that. Obviously, the Razor very, pretty cool.

1:33.4

This is the most fun you can have with a keyboard right now where you put a keyboard on a Motor Razor.

1:39.8

You have like the most badass big Android phone going to a really poctable thing that kind of gives off some vibes.

1:49.0

And what we saw is once we held this in our hand, we love it.

1:53.0

And probably 90% of the time you end up not opening the phone to the screen.

1:59.0

So having this really made us validate that it was the time to do this. But having this really made us, you know, validate that it was the time

2:02.5

to do this. But the company, when we built it, to me, this was always the goal, right? But it would be

2:07.7

kind of crazy to come out right at the start of a brand new company, brand new brand, without

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