Clicks Communicator is a compact Android 17 phone built around a physical keyboard and a home screen for conversations. Use it as your main phone or a companion, with full 5G and apps while keeping messages, typing, and quick replies close at hand.
There’s something nice about a phone that puts the keyboard back at the center.
Communicator is small enough that the screen clearly isn’t the whole point. The keyboard is touch-sensitive, the Signal LED tells you who’s trying to reach you, and the Message Hub lets you deal with conversations without opening every app one by one.
It still runs full Android 17, so you can use it as your main phone if you want. It just makes typing and messaging feel like the default again.
The side key handles voice input too. Hold it to dictate, record something, or transcribe a meeting.
Clicks also bumped the final hardware to 12GB RAM and a 4,350mAh battery before shipping, without increasing the $499 launch price.
Immediately sent this to two friends and they were stoked. Excited to know what I'm getting them for Christmas / Hanukkah now!
I tried to message you on your website but didn't see a contact form so I'm sending a quick note here. Not a big deal, but your site promotes a $30 discount (which you are delivering). But the second step in the flow, where the user signs up for text, says that the discount is $20. Your marketing team might want to change that $20 figure on your Postscript SMS marketing tool to $30, just to avoid confusion.
a touch-sensitive keyboard is the part I hadn't seen before, most of these retro-keyboard phones treat the keys as pure mechanical input and bolt a trackpad-gesture zone onto the space bar at best. does the touch layer replace the trackpad entirely or is it additive, like can you still do cursor placement by dragging on the keys themselves the way BlackBerry's old keyboard-as-trackpad trick worked?
About Clicks Communicator on Product Hunt
“A new kind of mobile communicator designed for doing”
Clicks Communicator launched on Product Hunt on September 27th, 2026 and earned 114 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Clicks Communicator is a compact Android 17 phone built around a physical keyboard and a home screen for conversations. Use it as your main phone or a companion, with full 5G and apps while keeping messages, typing, and quick replies close at hand.
Clicks Communicator was featured in Custom Keyboards (2.3k followers), Hardware (11.5k followers) and Cell Phone (812 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 4.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Clicks Communicator?
Clicks Communicator was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Zac Zuo
Hi everyone!
There’s something nice about a phone that puts the keyboard back at the center.
Communicator is small enough that the screen clearly isn’t the whole point. The keyboard is touch-sensitive, the Signal LED tells you who’s trying to reach you, and the Message Hub lets you deal with conversations without opening every app one by one.
It still runs full Android 17, so you can use it as your main phone if you want. It just makes typing and messaging feel like the default again.
The side key handles voice input too. Hold it to dictate, record something, or transcribe a meeting.
Clicks also bumped the final hardware to 12GB RAM and a 4,350mAh battery before shipping, without increasing the $499 launch price.
Turns out, buttons still make a lot of sense!