BlackBerry is trying to make slider phones happen Welcome to 2007. Mike Wehner. Tech. ... The Leap is a 5-inch touchscreen phone that follows the model the original iPhone of 2007, ...

The original phone was launched in 1996 and made the "slider" model popular, particularly after it made an appearance in 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix.

With no DROID 5 in sight for an unveiling at next week's Verizon festivities, it seems the writing is on the wall for the form-factor that basically got Android off the ground: the QWERTY slider ...

Back in the day, there were several phones with sliding QWERTY keyboards like the T-Mobile Sidekick, the original Motorola Droid and the HTCmyTouch 4G Slide (see, phones had bad names even then ...

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable. With Huawei and Xiaomi now onboard, the modern slider phone won't be an experiment for long.

The Alert Slider, which has been on most OnePlus phones (it disappeared for the OnePlus 10T) for the last decade, lets you quickly switch between normal, mute, and vibrate-only modes.