The Astro Slide 5G Transformer is a 5G smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard. This product was introduced by Planet Computers in the UK, and it was also raised through crowdfunding site Indigogo.
This product is equipped with a 6.53-inch display in the closed state, and when the display is pushed, the QWERTY keyboard comes out and text input is comfortable. When you open the keyboard, the monitor rises a little, so you can comfortably view the display while typing text on your desk. The keyboard also has a backlight, so you can avoid typos even in the dark.
Smartphones equipped with keyboards are almost annihilated when TCL abandoned the BlackBerry model, but it is true that the demand for keyboard terminals exists in a certain scale market. This product can be used not only as a keyboard, but also as a general touch smartphone when closed.
The communication method supports 5G. SoC adopted MediaTek Dimension 1000, not Qualcomm. It reaches 4.7Gbps downlink and is said to be the second place to adopt MediaTek 5G chip after Oppo. In other specifications, the RAM is 6GB, and the storage space is a microSD slot in addition to the 128GB ROM. The display is 6.53 inches, supporting a resolution of 2340×1080 and an aspect ratio of 20:9, and the camera has 48 million pixels and 5 million pixels in the front. The battery is 4,000mAh, and the dual SIM also supports eSIM. The keyboard supports 24 languages including English. Related information can be found here .