New Oppo patent shows smartphone case with a QWERTY keyboard

While many smartphone manufacturers try to make foldable phones a practical reality, others adopt a different approach. Remember the Dual Screen case LG launched with the LG G8X ThinQ? It turns out that Oppo might thread on a similar path but utilizing something completely different - a physical keyboard.

The Chinese company has filed an interesting patent, published on April 24 by the World Intellectual Property Organization, reports. The document in question describes a smartphone case with an integrated QWERTY keyboard. Physical keyboards belong to the past, but some people still prefer ...