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 ...

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 ...

All the major smartphone makers gave up on physical keyboards years ago. But a handful of smaller companies are keeping the dream alive — and the new Astro Slide smartphone from Planet Computers is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...