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An Android phone that slides open to reveal a physical qwerty keyboard inside has launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The F(x)tec Pro1 phone also has a bespoke shutter button on the side to click when taking photos.
The London start-up behind it said it wanted to "return the keyboard" to consumers.
Other handsets with keyboards built in, from brands such as BlackBerry Mobile and Swiss firm Punkt, were also on show.
"A lot of consumer tech still has buttons even though the tech is there to get rid of them," said Adrian Li Mow Ching, founder of F(x)tec.
"Haptic feedback never gives the same satisfaction as pressing a physical button.”
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @02:50PM
FYI, when I used an N900, I had an extended battery in it, and I put a usb Li-ion charging board in the extra space inside the correspondingly extended back cover. It was wired directly to the battery terminals and charged it while the phone was running. Confused the phone's fuel gage, naturally, but I had an applet that monitored battery voltage directly instead, so I had a pretty good idea what it was doing.