Android Circuit

Following on from a preview at February’s Mobile World Congress, London-based startup F(x)tec have released its Pro 1 smartphone at IFA. At first glance it’s a thicker Android handset with a wonderful screen and curved edges, backed up by a SnapDragon 835 with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.. but a subtle push at the edge of the screen pops up the display and reveals an expansive qwerty keyboard.

Max Weinbach reports: “The one special part of the F(x)tec Pro1 is the keyboard. The keyboard is behind the display and exposed by sliding the phone up. The keyboard is very Blackberry-looking, though it is landscape instead of horizontal. To work with the keyboard, F(x)tec included 3 custom apps. The launcher, email, and calendar are all optimized to work with the keyboard. Otherwise, the software seems to remain mostly stock Android.”

 

Read the full story here on: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/09/06/android-google-news-samsung-galaxy-s11-fold-5g-honor-nokia-fxtec-vertical-video-ifa/