BlackBerry will launch a new phone at CES 2017 and TCL President has been teasing BlackBerry fans on Twitter with images of the upcoming handset, which will be called the BlackBerry PRESS.

The BlackBerry PRESS, which was codenamed Mercury, will feature one of BlackBerry’s classic, physical QWERTY keyboards. TCL is the company who designed the last batch of BlackBerry phones, as well as units from Alcatel.

It was previously believed that BlackBerry would design this handset and that it would be the last made in-house. However, the fact that TCL is leaking the phone shows that this probably isn’t the case; BlackBerry is done designing and building handsets.

The BlackBerry Press, which we’re hoping will pick up where the Passport left off, will feature Android Nougat, a Snapdragon 821 CPU and 32GB of internal storage.

The handset will also feature a fingerprint scanner, which will be housed inside the keyboard’s spacebar. This is a pretty unique way of integrating a scanner, so we’re quite excited to see how this will work in practice.

We’re pretty big BlackBerry fans here at KYM; I loved the Passport, personally, and have never made any bones about my usage and praise for BB10 as a platform.

I do like what BlackBerry is doing with Android, though. Having access to applications and media via Google Play adds in a level of usability to BlackBerry Phones that just wasn’t present when the company used BB10.

Steve Cistulli, the president of TCL, said the handset will be imPRESSively [sic] designed and distinctly different in his tweet, indicating we could well be looking at something as left field as the Passport once again.

BlackBerry released a couple of Android phones before the close of 2016 in the form of its DTEK series of handsets, which championed security and privacy over everything else. BlackBerry claims these handsets are the world’s most secure Android phones.

The BlackBerry PRESS will launch at CES 2017, though there have been no clues about when it will be available or how much it will cost. Given BlackBerry’s last few releases though, and the fact this handset looks to have a premium QWERTY keyboard, we’d imagine it would be a flagship release.

Nokia is expected to return inside Q1 2017 with an Android phone as well, meaning two of the industry’s oldest brands making a return to the space they helped create for the first time in a good long while.

Finger’s crossed both impress.