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I’ve reviewed hundreds of phones in my career, but QWERTY keyboard phones are my biggest guilty pleasures. Honestly, there’s a reason why they’ve become so rare — but whenever I come across one, I’m pulled back to the early days of the smartphone.

The BlackBerry Passport remains one of the most iconic keyboard phones ever made, and it’s what inspired the Unihertz Titan 2. While that Android-powered phone brought back nostalgia when I tested it out last year, it simply wasn’t enough to convince me to drop my slate phone.

Well, Unihertz is back at it, and the Titan 2 Elite is an even more compelling package — so much so that I ditched my Galaxy S26 for a week to see if this refreshed BlackBerry Passport clone could win me over.

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Unihertz Titan 2 Elite: Specifications

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Unihertz Titan 2

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4.03-inch (1080 x 1200) AMOLED

4.5-inches (1440 x 1440)

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