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 ...

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 ...

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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 we go back to the 2005 to 2007 era, we'll remember how smartphones with physical keyboards have dominated the market. We saw the rise of BlackBerry as one of the top brands in the early-smartphone ...

The Astro Slide is a smartphone with a 6.39 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a MediaTek Dimensity 800 processor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 4,000 mAh battery and support for wireless charging.

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 ...

As shown below, the hinge allows you to slide the screen off of the keyboard, then flip it up so you can use it like a mini-laptop. A full (albeit tiny) physical QWERTY keyboard is then revealed so ...

Something to look forward to: Are you tired of modern flagship smartphones that follow a similar design? Nostalgic for the days of BlackBerry PDAs? Then Planet Computers' Astro Slide could be for you.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...