BlackBerry may be pulling out of making its own hardware but one final BlackBerry is headed our way. Rumours about the Mercury are spreading since June and finally in October last month company CEO John Chen confirmed its existence.

The two photos that showed up on Weibo reveal a device very much similar to the first shot from June, so they might be the real deal. Now, from the latest images we can easily identify the placing of front camera, and proximity and ambient light sensors which are on the other side of the earpiece. We can call it a polarizing device.

It might be codenamed as Mercury and this would be the mysterious BlackBerry device with the model number BBB100-1, which has been spotted in the Geekbench database. BlackBerry is secretly developing their new flagship device. Yes it can be!

To many things are not revealed in the benchmark about the Mercury, except it has a 2 GHz octa-core processor mad by Qualcomm, equipped with 3GB of RAM, and this device will perform on latest Android 7.0 Nougat. The SoC used may be the mid-range one with a Snapdragon 625 based on CPU core count and clock speed, but its better not to expect so many thing because these are just a speculation.

The Mercury has been said to come with a 4.5-inches Full HD touchscreen with 3:2 aspect ratio and the QWERTY keyboard for which BlackBerry is known for, it's said that the new Mercury will come with a 32GB of internal memory storage, and a 18 megapixel primary and 8 megapixel front facing camera. The device is backed with a3400 mAH battery which is expected to give a long battery life.

It seems we're about to find out for sure any time soon, now that units have started appearing in the wild. We'll keep you updated.