The Astro Slide 5G is a novel smartphone concept that can dual-boot Android and Linux and features a unique slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. Thanks to a novel RockUp hinge, the Astro Slide 5G can be ...

The OPPO Find X and Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 from 2018 are some of the recent phones with slider design. However, these phones do not have full-fledged slider design like the newly unveiled Astro Slide 5G ...

If you really want a smartphone with a physical keyboard, just how much are you prepared to forgive about the rest of it to get one? That’s the dilemma with Planet Computers’ Astro Slide 5G phone, as ...

The Astro Slide 5G Transformer, an Android smartphone doubling as a PDA with a sliding keyboard, just took Indiegogo by storm. British company Planet Computers raised the equivalent of over $460,000 ...

The Astro Slide 5G Transformer as the name suggests is a combined smartphone and pocket PC with a slide out keyboard that has launced via Indiegogo this month with prices starting from $545 or £439.

Smartphones as we know them killed physical keyboards on mobile phones over a decade ago. No one carries a flip phone, Sidekick, or BlackBerry anymore because the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy smartphones ...

Planet Computers, known for creating QWERTY phones, has shared a revised launch date and specification details about its new 5G smartphone called Astro Slide. The phone has a side-sliding physical ...

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT. The Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget team has already played with the Gemini PDA by Planet ...

UK-based smartphone maker Planet Computers has set June 2021 as the release date for its new Astro Slide 5G Transformer. A successor to the Cosmo Communicator and Gemini PDA, the Astro Slide is Planet ...

Planet Computers has launched its Astro Slide 5G Transformer project on IndieGogo. The UK-based firm calls the new device "the first 5G smartphone with a keyboard." This pocketable hybrid is ...