This PDA/Smartphone looks so cool … it’s got a bit of a retro feel, but I love it! It’s powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1000 chipset with built-in 5G!
Taken from Engadget … Planet Computers is continuing to build very unique physical keyboard smartphones with the launch of its latest flagship, the crowdfunded Astro Slide. It’s a phone with surprisingly robust specs, but the key trick is that it can be used either as a standard 6.53-inch touchscreen smartphone or as a PDA, thanks to the “RockUp” slide hinge mechansm.
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 you can tap messages or do productivity chores. Once finished, you can slide the screen back and answer calls or drop it in your pocket. That differs from the Cosmo Communicator, a hinge-only clamshell phone with a small rear screen that lets you answer calls with the case closed.
Whether a phone or PDA, the Astro Slide looks pretty powerful. It packs Android 10 and will have dual-boot Linux capability down the road. Inside, there’s a MediaTek Dimensity 1000 chipset with built-in 5G with “twice the performance of other 5G chipsets with significantly reduced power consumption,” the company said. It also offers a 48-megapixel rear camera, a front selfie camera, 6GB of RAM, an eSIM slot (on top of two nano SIM slots) and 128GB of storage expandable via a MicroSD slot.
Source: Engadget
