Planet Astro Slide 5G brings slide-out physical keyboard and Dimensity 800
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- Gnusmag
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- 07 Jan 2022
Pumpino, 07 Jan 2022In an industry where the same thing is dished out day in, d... moreThey remind me of LG, but unfortunately even LG with their enormous R&D budget had to eventually give up.
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- 07 Jan 2022
XXX13, 07 Jan 2022The looks like the Nokia N97.Mine was E7 and had exactly the same keyboard.
Seems we are going backwards. Nevertheless, better to go in 2000s than today where every phone is just the same with different logo
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- 07 Jan 2022
yalim, 07 Jan 2022nokia and sony ericsson tried this in the past.asus tried a... moreFuture of this form factor is folding tablets? I so doubt that. Foldable phones are still far from cheap to buy and repair. Phones like this are still much easier to repair because they are still effectively normal-shaped smartphones. Also, given the choice between a foldable phone and a normal tablet, I can see more people going for the latter.
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- 07 Jan 2022
At last an interesting phone WITH a decent processor. Heck, Dimensity 800 and 820 deserves more love and maybe it deserves to return as a Dimensity 5000 in a low mid tier.
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- 07 Jan 2022
yalim, 07 Jan 2022nokia and sony ericsson tried this in the past.asus tried a... moreI love a slide keyboard like Xperia mini Pro or X10, man I really want that phone back in the days. they should made them back than ultra expensive foldable or camera centric phones.
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- yalim
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- 07 Jan 2022
nokia and sony ericsson tried this in the past.asus tried a more flexible approach with padphone.even lg tried 4 years ago with folding screens(2 screens).none of them ended up well.both keyboard and screen are too small for laptop style usage.future of this form factor is folding tablets.besides, what is astro?
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- 07 Jan 2022
I've a special thing for this type of phones. Please support this company guys so we can have this phone globally. I still prefer physical keyboard. Last phone with physical keyboard I had was Blackberry Priv.
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- PixelFan
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- 07 Jan 2022
YUKI93, 07 Jan 2022"The phone boots Android 11 but it can also be booted ... morePardon my ignorance but in the current market isn't Sailfish the most usable alternative OS to iOS & Android?
I thought Manjaro based pinephones were popular only because people usually flashed them with Android.
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- 07 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jan 2022another useless phoneOh please, this isn't for average consumers who don't know anything about Linux.
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- 07 Jan 2022
"The phone boots Android 11 but it can also be booted with Linux distributions and Planet Computers is also working on bringing support for Sailfish OS."
That's the main reason why I've been eyeing this phone for a long while. Physical keyboard support on Android always has been quite patchy, but not with Linux. I'll be waiting to see Manjaro ARM support for this phone. That would be wicked, especially when using its Phosh Desktop Mode.
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- 07 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jan 2022another useless phoneTo you maybe, but not everyone is you...
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- 07 Jan 2022
woah....i would love to get my hands on this..... i wish it was powered by atleast a dimensity 1100..
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- 07 Jan 2022
incredibly bulky - might be better off getting a bluetooth mini keyboard easier to carry around....
phone is thick as and would assume the weight is going to be 350g+
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- 07 Jan 2022
panjeet, 07 Jan 2022For a second there I thought it was Astro Glide. LOL🤣
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- Pumpino
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- 07 Jan 2022
Pumpino, 07 Jan 2022In an industry where the same thing is dished out day in, d... moreActually, this isn't their first crack at it. https://gsmarena.com/astro_slide_5g_transformer_smartphone_comes_with_a_slide_qwerty_keyboard-news-42342.php
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- 07 Jan 2022
I was waiting for a phone with a keyboard for a DECADE now, and I was going to snap this up in a instant. Then I saw that price...