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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

The latest keyboarded phone from Planet Computers works as both a standard slab-style device and as a mini-laptop. And it lets you run non-Google operating systems. I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been ...

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.

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT. Years ago, I owned a Psion Organiser, which, at the time, was the perfect device for taking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...