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Astro

Released on: 2022-11-17

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The Astro Slide 5G is a phone by Planet Computers, that has been crowd-funded on Indiegogo.

This phone is right up my alley, and arrived a few days ago. In that time, I’ve slowly been working through the various niggles, like you do with any new phone, and have just started to post them here.

In due course, I have a project lined up, which will nicely demonstrate why this phone is so interesting to me.

In the mean time, hopefully some of these posts will be helpful for you.

Official links

Campaign on Indiegogo.
Astro on Planet Computers’ site.
Support site where official documentation, tools, downloads will be.
Planet Computers on Twitter.

Unofficial links

Github repo - The unofficial place for “feature requests, bugs, and constructive feedback.”
Planet Computers on Facebook. - I think this is unofficial. But I’ll try to get confirmation.
Discord.
OESF forum.
Reddit.

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It's very easy to have accidental key presses while closing the Astro Slide. Here's a method that makes it much easier.

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