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Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone by GordonS on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:11PM (#21139212)
Clamshell phones let you close your phone completely, and have been around for a long time. Actually, are they still a thing?
Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone by smush on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:46PM (#21140086)
So Clamshell Android phones are a thing. The Freetel Mushashi is a T9-style Android phone with dual touch screens on either side.

Samsung has the Android W series phones which have a similar format.

Regarding the sibling comment, after the Droid 4 and the Motorola Photon Q, there has been a drought of physical keyboard landscape slider phones. Portrait sliders have been available for the Blackberry Priv and KeyOne/Key2, but aside from the soon-to-be-released Fxtec Pro1, not much landscape slider android phone action is going on.

Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone by leetcrew on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:17PM (#21139264)
last mainstream device i can recall in this form factor was the droid 2? I think it's been a while since a major one was released, but I could be wrong.