2026 barely started and Clicks, the company behind the keyboard cases, already announced two interesting products:
⌨ Clicks Power Keys
Instead of being a case, this is actually a magsafe accessorie with a battery pack and a slide out keyboard. It connects to the phone via bluetooth and attaches to phones via the magsafe magnet. Once attached, the keyboard can slide out and back in - reducing the overall size of the combo.
To increase compatibility, the keyboard actually has two slide-out positions, one for smaller phones and another one for bigger phones. You can even rotate the phone horizontal and use the landscape mode while having access to the keyboard.
Another neat party trick: Since it connects via bluetooth and is powered by the internal battery, you can also connect it to all sorts of BT devices like a TV and is the Power Keys just as a standalone pocketable wireless keyboard.
📞Clicks Communicator
This is, at least for me, is actually the more interesting product and I am very close to pre-order one myself. To be honest I am quite hyped about this rather humble device.
The Clicks Communicator is a standalone phone, although according to Clicks that’s not really true, as it is meant to be a secondary phone: A companion to your daily driver smartphone which you use mostly for communicating and gettings things done, rather than getting distracted by your typical smartphone notifications and apps.
However since the Communicator runs on Android 16, has both SIM and eSIM support with full 5G and Wifi connectivity, it can easily be used as an actual standalone product. With interchangeable back covers, the white, green and black color variants can be customized further to suite your taste. While the hardware seems to be rather simple, just a single camera with LED flash, an unnamed “modern MediaTek” SoC and an unknown amount of RAM (I guess 8 gigs), it also features two things which are rather uncommon in modern smartphones: Expendable memory via microSD cards as well as a 3.5 mm headphone jack, yes you read that right, it has a headphone jack.
The main attraction is the touch sensitive custom made physical keyboard, which houses a fingerprint scanner inside the spacebar - just like the later BlackBerry models. Due to the touch sensitivity, you can use gestures to delete words or move your cursor. You can customize hotkeys to launch certain apps and perform actions.
Since it is meant to be a workhorse and communication device, it focuses on productivity. Maybe not unlike the Essential Key, it sports a side button which allows you to take quick voice recordings, transcribe meetings or in general turn voice notes into text. The button is surrounded by a notification LED, which supports RGB and thus can show different colors for different apps and notifications. There is a message hub which is a custom center for all your incomming notifications, mails and messages.
Last but not least it uses a custom default launcher, for this they teamed up with the developers of the well known Niagara Launcher, which is also meant to help transform this device into a communicator for getting things done rather than being sucked into distractions. Talking about distraction, it also has a physical kill switch which simply turns off notifications.
It can be reserved right now for USD 399 (later regular price is said to be 499) , you can either pay the full 399 and receive two additional back covers or just make a partial 199 reservation to lock the 399 early bird price.
