Samsung’s new Galaxy A80 is a smartphone that’s nearly all screen on the front, thanks to slim bezels and no visible front-facing camera. But that’s because the three cameras on the back of the camera are also the phone’s front-facing cameras. When you fire up the camera app and switch to selfie mode, the camera […]
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F(x)tec Pro 1 phone with slide-out keyboard may support Sailfish OS (as well as Android)
12 Comments on F(x)tec Pro 1 phone with slide-out keyboard may support Sailfish OS (as well as Android)The F(x)tec Pro 1 is an upcoming smartphone with a 6 inch AMOLED touchscreen display and something that’s far more uncommon these days — a physical keyboard that slides out from behind the display and makes the phone look almost like a tiny laptop. But that may not be the only unusual thing about this […]
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ZTE Axon V and Axon S Slider have unusual solutions to the smartphone not problem
As smartphone makers have been moving toward nearly bezel-free smartphones, they have to figure out what to do with the components that you’d normally squeeze into a bezel, like cameras. So far the most popular solution has been to put a notch in the display. More recently, some phone makers have removed the bezels and […]
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F(x)tec Pro 1 smartphone with slide-out keyboard coming in July for $649
There was a time when QWERTY keyboards were a must-have feature for smartphones. These days your real option is to buy a BlackBerry device. But that’s set to change this summer. A startup called F(x)tec is introducing a new Android phone called the F(x)tec Pro 1. The company is showing the phone to reporters at […]
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F(x) Technology is making an Android phone with a slide-out keyboard
Modern smartphones with physical QWERTY keyboards are rare, but not unheard of these days. But you know what you don’t see much anymore? Phones with QWERTY keyboards that slide out from behind the display when you want to type and hide away behind the screen when you don’t need them. Last year a team called […]
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Lenovo’s Z5 Pro is brings slide-out cameras to sub $300 smartphones
Features that used to be exclusive to high-end smartphones have a habit of making their way to mid-range and budget devices pretty quickly these days. Case in point: About four months after Oppo launched the first smartphone with front cameras that slide out from behind the screen, Lenovo is bringing a similar feature to a […]
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Honor Magic 2 is a bezel-free slider with 6 cameras
Huawei was the first company to launch a smartphone with three rear cameras. So maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that the company is now also the first to launch a phone with three front cameras. All told, the new Honor Magic 2 smartphone has a total of six cameras: three on each side. But you’ll only […]
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Xiaomi launches Mi Mix 3 bezel-free smartphone with slide-out cameras, up to 10GB RAM
As expected, Xiaomi’s latest Mi Mix smartphone features a big screen, slim bezels, and no visible camera on the front… until you slide down the screen to reveal dual front-facing cameras that hang out behind the display. It’s the sort of design we’ve seen before, but the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 combines premium design, high-end specs, and […]
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Would you rather have a phone with a slide-out camera, or a hole in the screen?
As the war on bezels continues, smartphone makers seem to be falling into one of three camps this year. There are phones with slimmer-than-in-the-past bezels. There are notch-phones with a cut-out near the top of the display for a front-facing camera. And recently we’ve seen the addition of a third category: phones with slide-out or […]
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Moto Z keyboard mod canceled, team shifts focus to upcoming smartphone with slider keyboard
5 Comments on Moto Z keyboard mod canceled, team shifts focus to upcoming smartphone with slider keyboardIf you’re looking for an Android smartphone with a built-in keyboard, right now your only options are BlackBerry devices. But the folks behind the crowdfunded sliding keyboard mod for the Moto Z smartphone family plan to launch a new phone with a landscape-style slide-out keyboard. That’s the good news for keyboard fans. The bad news […]