Shell of a smartphone – the BlackBerry Kopi's panels emerge from oblivion

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When BlackBerry's John Chen stepped inas CEO last year, he had to decide the fate of two series of BB10smartphones, the K and C series. Among them was the BlackBerry Kopi,a lowly QWERTY model that appeared to be in prototype status. Ithad a cheap plastic build and its physical keyboard seemed a littlerough around the edges, but it had BlackBerry written all over it.

Ultimately, Mr. Chen decided to abandonthese series in favor of the recently-introduced Z3. Or did he? Whiletime will tell if he made the right decision, it appears that theKopi phone, or at least its outer shell, is still a thing of interestfor someone in Asia. As you can see from these photos, sourced fromthe Weibo social network, the Kopi looks like a miniature Z10 with aQWERTY keyboard. 

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