The Minimal Phone is an Android phone with a screen that bucks almost every trend in the modern smartphone space. Instead of a big screen with vibrant colors and a high refresh rate it has a small black and white E Ink display positioned above a physical keyboard, making the phone look a bit like a modern […]
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18 Comments on The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android (crowdfunding)
The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android (crowdfunding)
18 Comments on The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android (crowdfunding)Most modern smartphones have big, colorful touchscreen displays and lack physical keyboards. The Minimal Phone bucks both trends. It takes two very niche features and combines them into a single device: it’s an Android-powered smartphone with a square E Ink display and a QWERTY keyboard. You can’t actually buy this phone yet, but the developer says […]
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F(x)tec Pro1-X smartphone with a physical keyboard begins shipping (a few years late)
17 Comments on F(x)tec Pro1-X smartphone with a physical keyboard begins shipping (a few years late)The F(x)tec Pro1-X is a smartphone with mid-range specs that manages to stand out in a market that’s probably oversaturated thanks to a few distinctive features. It’s one of the only modern smartphones with a slide-out keyboard for thumb typing on physical keys. And it’s designed to support multiple operating systems including Android 11, Ubuntu […]
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Crowdfunded Astro Slide phone with slide-out keyboard, Linux support should ship in 2022
18 Comments on Crowdfunded Astro Slide phone with slide-out keyboard, Linux support should ship in 2022The 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. But those aren’t the features that make this phone unusual. It also has a physical keyboard that slides out from behind the […]