Q27: New smartphone is a BlackBerry homage with Android 16 and 5G

The brand Zinwa may be familiar to some readers, as we have previously reported on a smartphone from this company. Now there are reports about a new Zinwa smartphone, which might be described as a modern interpretation of a classic BlackBerry phone that sports a physical keyboard.

Other smartphones with physical keyboards are still available, and some even have attachable keyboards. That said, the Zinwa Q27 is not a finished product just yet, but more or less precise specifications are already available. Unlike the Q25 Pro, the Q27 is not an upgrade kit.

The smartphone is expected to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chipset with 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM. Additionally, Zinwa opted for UFS 3.1 storage with 256GB of capacity, and the manufacturer will only offer a single configuration. This can be beneficial from a manufacturing perspective, considering the likely small production volume.

Furthermore, the BlackBerry clone has a 3.92-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 1240 and a 31:27 aspect ratio, meaning it’s almost square. A 50-megapixel main camera and a 16-megapixel front camera are also onboard. The battery is expected to have a capacity of 3,500 or 4,000mAh and can be charged with up to 33 watts. According to Zinwa, the Q27 supports physical SIM as well as eSIM, and the storage can be expanded via microSD.