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 ...

The UK's Planet Computers has hit the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform with its third project, the Astro Slide. Inspired by the Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) of the 1990s, it's a chunky smartphone ...

If you've been waiting for a 5G smartphone with a physical keyboard, get ready to get excited. Planet Computers – known for its steadfast, some might say obsessional, commitment to the mini-laptop ...

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.

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 ...

In 2018, Planet Computers released the Gemini, a product that imbued the clamshell palmtop of the 1990s with an operating system of the present day. The product's most noteworthy attribute was its ...

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 ...

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 ...