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.

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

Most were slider phones, but toward the end of the line in 2009, the BL40 wide-screen phone with a full touchscreen came with a very different look. It even had a 21:9 aspect ratio, reminiscent of ...

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 ...

There were some slider phones released in 2018, most notably the OPPO Find X and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3.Those devices were well received by both the press and general Android users, likely in part ...

The Rizr strays from Motorola's classic clamshell design: it's a slider phone. Fortunately, it still retains Motorola's eye for style and comes with a decent all-rounder feature set -- a 2 ...