A Nokia-inspired QWERTY slider in 2019? Meet the F(x)tec Pro 1

It's not just a phone with a sliding keyboard. F(x)tec is a privately-funded startup that has ideas to bring back functionality to Android.

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Finnish startup Eve has lofty goal to deliver a community-designed Windows 2-in-1

It would want your money, sooner or later, but until then, it wants you (yes, you) to choose what exactly goes into its latest project.You might have heard of Jolla — struggling to survive as it is — and PuzzlePhone — which only got 46 percent of its Indiegogo funding goal. Those two startups represent a good snapshot of Finland’s tech scene right now: still ailing, but very much alive. If you play

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Fix the OnePlus Two invite system by getting rid of it

The original title of this post included the words “kill it with fire.” I don’t think we should be taking the flaming pitchforks to anything OnePlus is doing here, including what the OnePlus Two has in store for us. And it has a lot in store for us.But as we’ve discussed many times before on the

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What the next smartphone startup can learn from OnePlus and its stumbles

OnePlus is the Cinderella story that wasn’t. A company poised to break all the rules launched a marketing campaign that encouraged everyone to “Never Settle”. With a tagline like that, expectations ran high – but it didn’t stop there.OnePlus took an interesting approach, making end-users like you and I feel like the device was being crafted just for us. In the end, it looks like this was based more in marketing spin than in reality. Nonetheless, it bootstrapped the genesis of the company and its premier ...

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