LAS VEGAS—If you’re still arguing out loud with autocorrect after all these years, Clicks Technology has two new products on display at CES 2026 that may interest you. Both are winners as far as we’re concerned: The Clicks Communicator is a full-on replacement for your old BlackBerry, and the Power Keyboard is a magnetic accessory that slaps onto the back of your phone, giving you access to a slide-out keyboard. We went hands on with both. Here are our early thoughts.
Bringing Back the Communicator
The Clicks Communicator is the brainchild of two longtime mobile journalists, Michael Fisher and Kevin Michaluk, known across the web as “Mr. Mobile” and “CrackBerry Kevin,” respectively. Both are big fans of the BlackBerrys of old, and the Communicator almost serves as a love letter to the keyboard-equipped phone.
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The company doesn’t yet have fully working prototypes, but it had some near-final physical mockups that allowed us to gauge the size, usability, and keyboard layout. Not only does the Communicator have a keyboard, it has lots of features that some buyers will find appealing, including a 3.5mm headphone jack, a physical SIM card slot, swappable batteries, and support for microSD memory cards (up to 2TB). The phone has a 4-inch screen that’s just about square in shape, a dedicated shortcut button, and physical volume and power keys.
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It runs Android 16, but the phone will have a slimmed-down user interface that prioritizes your messaging apps. It relies on a text-based home screen that showcases not only your communication apps but also your notifications and the ability to triage your inboxes, all right from the home screen. Pretty neat stuff.
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About that keyboard. It’s really nice. Clicks hired one of the designers who worked on BlackBerry devices more than a decade ago, and it carries forward the sculpted key shape that made BlackBerry’s keyboards famous. I really liked the action and the breakdown of keys, such as function tools and shortcuts. Furthermore, the keyboard supports capacitive input, allowing you to use it for scrolling and navigating the user interface by swiping across the surface.
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The phone is made from plastic and features a removable rear shell, available in several different colors. We’re not sure if the hues we saw in Las Vegas are final, but Clicks showed us a silver model and a green model, the latter of which has serious Eddie Bauer vibes.
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What I like most is that the Clicks Communicator is not meant to be your main phone. Instead, it relies on the notion that many of us carry two devices and might prefer one that’s dedicated to messaging and other communications. The minimalist design and user interface are meant to instill a notion of a productivity-first device, leaving your multimedia capture to the iPhones, Pixels, and Galaxy phones of the world.
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It will go on sale in the second half of the year for $499, and is available for preorder for $399.
A Sliding Keyboard for Every Phone
Clicks isn’t ignoring its bread-and-butter customers. In addition to the phone, the company debuted the Power Keyboard, a magnetic keyboard that works with many of today’s phones.
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The Power Keyboard is a curious form factor. It attaches to the back of your MagSafe or Qi2-enabled phone, like a power bank. In fact, it includes a battery that can power both your phone and the keyboard itself. With it attached to your phone, it acts like an old vertical sliding phone and reveals the keyboard when you slide your phone upwards. The action is great; it has multiple vertical levels that it ratchets to, so it can accommodate phones of different sizes and the magnet holds it to your phone tightly.
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The keys themselves are a bit on the small side, mandated by the constrained width of most phones. But Clicks added a number row above the QWERTY layout, and it has a generous selection of action keys and programmable shortcuts. I like that you can orient your phone vertically or horizontally, and it’s easy to rotate back and forth.
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The Power Keyboard is a great option for those who miss typing on physical keyboards. Moreover, the design means it’s compatible with far more phones than the model-specific keyboards that Clicks already sells.
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The Power Keyboard is available for preorder at $79. The regular retail price is $109. It should become available in the first half of the year.
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I’m PCMag’s managing editor for consumer electronics content, overseeing an experienced team of reviewers and product testers. I’ve been covering technology for about 25 years. Prior to PCMag, I worked at outlets such as Android Authority, Fortune, InformationWeek, and Phonescoop.