Entries by Sam Liu

Fxtec Pro1 hands-on: The sliding QWERTY keyboard phone is back

Back in the day, there were several phones with sliding QWERTY keyboards like the T-Mobile Sidekick, the original Motorola Droid and the HTC myTouch 4G Slide (see, phones had bad names even then). However, touchscreens quickly became a more popular input method and sliding keyboards became a thing of the past. Despite this, many of us never lost […]

Pro1 The Little Lappy Top on TWiT.TV All About Android

Our Co-Founder Adrian Li Mow Ching joined TWiT.TV‘s All About Android hosts Jason Howell, Florence Ion, Ron Richards last night for a fun discussion and Pro1 demo. During the episode they chatted about the recent Google I/O conference highlights, and also checked out the OnePlus 7 Pro & Pixel 3a. Host “Flo” decided our Pro1 […]

The F(x)tec Pro 1 Is a QWERTY Slider Blast From the Past

In was just a decade ago when we all lived in the golden age of the QWERTY keyboard smartphone. Devices like the Palm Pre and Motorola Droid seemed like viable alternatives to the iPhone largely because they had all those tactile keys for inputting text. Smartphones with physical keyboards are all but extinct now, but […]

Fxtec Pro1 hands on: The sliding QWERTY keyboard phone is back, again!

Back in the day, there were several phones with sliding QWERTY keyboards like the T-Mobile Sidekick, the original Motorola Droid and the HTC myTouch 4G Slide (see, phones had bad names even then). However, touchscreens quickly became a more popular input method and sliding keyboards became a thing of the past. Despite this, many of us never lost […]

F(x)tec Pro 1 Is a Smart Take on the Old-School Slider Phone

Could sliders make a comeback? A new company called ReadyFX thinks so, and its slider phone, the F(x)tec Pro, was on display here at MWC19. BARCELONA—When T-Mobile launched the Sidekick in 2002, it was an instant success thanks to a tiny 3.5-inch display and QWERTY keyboard that suddenly made texting easy. The slider phone trend […]

F(x)tec Pro 1 brings a full-size keyboard to a modern-looking smartphone

Lusting for a physical keyboard on a smartphone? You’re not the only one. We’ve seen TCL’s success in licensing the BlackBerry brand name to create phones with keyboards again. But those devices at the moment don’t look anything like most smartphones — there are no large screens with slim bezels, hole-punch cameras, or notches in […]

The F(x)tec Pro 1 is a love letter to your old QWERTY keyboard phones

If you’re a geek of a certain age, you probably had some kind of phone with a physical keyboard. For me, it was the BlackBerry Tour. For my younger sister, it was the magnificently chunky Motorola CLIQ. And for F(x)tec co-founder Liangchen Chen, it was the Nokia N900. His undying fondness for that aging smartphone’s […]