The big comeback of the Blackberry Classic? Not quite...

It was July 5, 2016. The Canadian company BlackBerry , worn down by the competition, announced the end of the marketing of its "Classic" model, before definitively putting an end to its operating system, BlackBerryOS, in 2022. Enough to push a good number of fans to definitively abandon the use of their Blackberry - which was very popular with celebrities in the 2000s (from Paris Hilton to Barack Obama). This summer, the model with the iconic keyboard rises from its ashes. Well, not quite. A Chinese company, Zinwa, has taken the design of the BlackBerry Classic to create a smartphone called Zinwa Q25 - which also has a "Pro" version. Price indicated on their site: 400 dollars (around 345 euros). Operating system: Android. Its storage capacity reaches more than 256 GB. Basically, the object, which will go on sale next August, is nothing other than an ultra-sophisticated smartphone (some of its functions are said to surpass those of an iPhone 16) with a Y2K aesthetic.

This announcement has caused a stir on social media, led by TikTok. It is on this platform that many