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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Astro Slide could certainly fill the void recently left by BlackBerry though, in becoming the go-to phone for worker bees who want a device that can serve as a productivity powerhouse. Little ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BlackBerry (via TCL) was the last major OEM that attempted to include a workable physical keyboard in a modern Android smartphone. However, a relative newcomer to the game -- Planet Computers -- is ...

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 ...