Here’s a smartphone boasting a physical keyboard and it runs Linux

Home News Computing (Image credit: F(x)tec ) Mobile newcomer F(x)tec has announced a rather unique smartphone that combines a slider form-factor, physical keyboard, and your choice of operating systems. The F(x)tec Pro1-X is an angled slider smartphone equipped with a 5.99-inch AMOLED monitor featuring a 2160×1080 resolution as well as a five-row 66-key landscape QWERTY keyboard. The handset is powered by a relatively outdated Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 system-on-chip that is accompanied by 6GB or 8GB of LPDDR4X memory as well as 128GB or 256GB of UFS 2.1 storage that can be expanded using a microSD card.The best antivirus software around todayBest secure drives: top USB drives to protect your data5 cheap smartphones with fingerprint scannersThe rise of Google Android-based handsets in candy bar form-factors to a large degree halted development of competing form-factors, such as sliders and clamshells, as well as smartphones with physical QWERTY keyboards.UniqueThe F(x)tec Pro1-X is certainly not your typical Android smartphone, as it  offers the choice of LineageOS or Ubuntu Touch operating systems out of the box. The LineageOS is essentially a refined Android that has advanced controls and privacy permissions, whereas the Ubuntu… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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