Planet Computers has been making smartphones with physical keyboards, unlocked bootloaders and support for Android or Linux software for a few years. I went hands-on with the Gemini PDA at CES 2018 ...

The Astro Slide is a smartphone that you can also use like a tiny laptop thanks to a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from behind the display. Designed for touch-typing and inspired by the Psion line ...

When it comes to smartphones, the most popular ones are iPhone and Android. However, other tech companies are diving into the market. One of them is Planet Computers, which just launched Astro Slide ...

How do your review something that is so utterly familiar and so utterly unique in almost the same breath? In a world of fixed slab smartphones, coming to terms with the idea of a foldable phone is ...

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 ...

Phones are designed to cater to the general public as much as possible but there really is no such thing as a "one size fits all" phone. From the earliest days of mobile devices to the present era ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest keyboarded phone from Planet Computers works as both a standard slab-style device and as a mini-laptop. And it lets you run non-Google operating systems. I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been ...

London-based computer firm Planet Computers first unveiled the Astro Slide 5G with a slider keyboard design in March 2020 under crowdfunding on Indiegogo. The crowdfunding exercise was a huge success ...

While the Astro Slide 5G has been on the major crowdfunding website Indiegogo for a while now, the device has now gone official. The device is an attempt to revive the physical QWERTY smartphone ...