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Astro

Released on: 2022-11-17

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.

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