Plenty of people still miss typing on a BlackBerry. The Clicks Power Keyboard, a $119 accessory, tries to give that feeling back to any phone, and PCMag’s Kimberly Gedeon spent a week with it. Her verdict: charming for the nostalgic, a poor fit for most.
What it is
It looks like a slim, matte-black MagSafe power bank with a keyboard on half of it, which is more or less what it is. It measures 4.71 by 3.02 by 0.62 inches and weighs 6.35 ounces. Press upward on the magnetic ring and it slides through five positions, exposing the keys below the phone’s bottom edge in a riser design that recalls the 2010 BlackBerry Torch.
It marks a break from the company’s earlier Clicks Keyboard, a phone case cut to specific models. Owners of an iPhone 14 Pro needed one for its 6.3-inch screen and Lightning port, and an iPhone 17 Pro Max needed another for its 6.9-inch screen and USB-C. Android was not supported. The Power Keyboard swaps fixed connectors for magnetic mounting and Bluetooth 5.4. It snaps onto MagSafe or Qi2 devices, and onto phones like the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra with a magnetic case. The grip is strong. A power button beside the USB-C port doubles as a pairing switch, and the keyboard can pair with up to nine devices.
Typing on it
There are five rows of circular keys, including a dedicated number row, a Sym key, an app drawer key and a red cursor key. The keys feel sharp and clicky. The trouble is the balance. Attached to an 8.22-ounce iPhone 17 Pro Max, the pair tipped backward, and Gedeon had to steady it with her pinkies. Landscape mode helped a little. A lighter phone helped too, but even the 6.9-ounce Google Pixel 11 felt ready to topple. Her most comfortable setup was a phone on a separate stand with the keyboard in her hands.
Speed suffered as well. On a typing test she managed 66 words per minute on the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard, 60 on the S26 Ultra and 62 on the Pixel 11. With the Power Keyboard attached to the iPhone she dropped to 29, and the other two phones matched it. Detached, with the phone propped on a table, she reached 30.
Battery and other uses
The 2,300mAh battery supports 5W wireless charging, but Clicks reserves 500mAh to run the keyboard, leaving 1,800mAh for the phone, under 40% of many phone batteries. A Clicks representative told her wireless charging is a tertiary function. Starting from 0%, her S26 Ultra got about 30% before the pack ran dry.
A companion app adjusts backlight brightness, sets an idle timeout and programs the number keys. Gedeon used Sym + 2 and Sym + 3 for volume. On an iPhone, Apple Shortcuts can trigger actions like calling a contact or launching a playlist.
The best fit, she found, was with her iPad Air, propped up so she could lean back and type, which she thought would suit a plane. She could not test it with a smart TV because her TCL Roku TV limits Bluetooth pairing to audio devices and official remotes.
