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Is this the future of mobile typing? We dive into the Clicks Communicator, which features a touch-sensitive keyboard, and the Power Keyboard, a Bluetooth and MagSafe accessory that adds a classic feel to modern smartphones.

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00:00I'm at CES 2026 and I want you to travel back in time with me. Do you
00:04remember smartphones with keyboards? I do. I used to have a Palm and had a
00:10Blackberry. And inside here, I'm trying to get to it but I can't, Clix
00:15Communicator. This is coming out later this year. It's going, it is actually a
00:19fully self-contained Android 16 phone. That keyboard, not only the key is bigger
00:25than the original Clix, but it's a touchscreen. Basically you can slide your
00:29fingers around on it. It's got a special button for dictation. It says it's
00:34running Android 16. You've got all the backs here. You've got like three backs
00:38basically. If you order between the next two months, it's $3.99. Otherwise it's
00:42going to be $4.99. I've been told it's coming out later in the year. I wish I
00:48could touch it. They won't let me touch it. What they will let me touch though, is
00:53this guy over here. Oh, the name of this again? I keep forgetting.
00:59This is the Clix Power Keyboard. All right. So this is really funny. This Clix Power
01:05Keyboard reminds me again of the classics. Look at this. See that? Now here's what's
01:13exciting about this. I'm going to slide it back down because I want you to see
01:16something. It's just this. Two, a 2000, a 200 milliamp hour battery in here,
01:24all right, that basically connects, the keyboard connects via Bluetooth to your
01:31smartphone, MagSafe attachment.
01:37So you don't need, like, we know that Google Pixel has the, the, the Pixel
01:41Snap. iPhone has the MagSafe. So, oh, and that also means you can do this.
01:51So if you like that, that's pretty cool, right? So, and you can see, by the way,
01:57these keys are, are more, they're smaller than on the, the communicator, but you can
02:02just add this to your regular phone, which is pretty cool. So all of this, all of this
02:08is happening, coming back, the keyboard's coming back on the smartphone, and we
02:14found it here at CES 2026. I am very excited. Can't wait to attach this thing
02:20to my iPhone 17 Pro Max. If you want more stories like this, more gadgets like this,
02:25stick with techradar.com because we are all over this big show.
02:29So.
02:29So.
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