Smartphones with physical keyboards are back!

Smartphones with physical keyboards are back!

cnet.com/news/psion-the-90s-are-back-this-clamshell-pda-is-pure-android-ces-2018/

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indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone#/
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Dualboots with GNU/Linux
What more could you possibly want?

to be able to hold it in my hand and use it for a regular phone conversation

Kys

someone should make a modern version of the nokia communicator.

This looks amazing. But unlike
I'm serious, how do you use it as a phone. Does the keyboard fully fold to the back? I'm assuming to close it, screen down on top of keys. Do you have to hold it like you would speaker phone?

It looks like a clamshell design.

...It's like the article specifically refers to it as clamshell design

Fucking stupid... the whole marketing line is hurr we have keyboard!! The entire customer base is old fags or actual fags.

At least use a blackberry if you actually need a keyboard.

It's almost like.. clamshell phones weren't 5.5" touch screens back in the day and had two screens with a small numpad on the front when you closed it, and wanted to hold it to your ear.

This is a touch screen clamshell. So again, how does it work. It's much different, stop being such a stuck up faggot. Does it have a second screen on the back? With another set of physical buttons?

>blackberry
dis guy is serius!

Just a phone, man.

new moto droid when?
that keyboard and dpad where fucking great. the best part was it also had an sdcard slot and a replaceable battery.

>sdcard slot
The fact that some phones attempt to forego this is very sad

>that retro keyboard style
aesthetic

Why does it use a mediatek soc instead of qualcomm?

Physical > Virtual

I miss having a physical keyboard, being able to text in class under the desk or while driving without looking at your keyboard was super easy

how else are they going to get you to pay for "cloud" storage?
pay up goy

I'm using one right now, the KEYone is great

I was asking a simple question and got a snobby response that meant to smugly imply it answered my question, when it didn't. I know it's just a phone and I'm curious on how it works. Isn't that the point of having a thread on the technology board, is to discuss it?

fuck, I really, really want that phone
because it's a cheap piece of gimmick trash

cnet is a website made for FAGGOTS. it’s an absolute piece of shit of a website

>tiny keys
Nah, I'm fine with missing the touchscreen keyboard and having autocorrect fix my shit.

I had the same feel
If you have any questions about it let me know

I would like to see 8"-9", so keyboard would be big enough to type with both hands.

I know its touchscreen but some physical tit/clit would be useful

price in eu will kill it, they will do $ to euro 1:1 + vat/tax kek

Big difference between the 3gb and 4gb version?

I have the 4gb version and my ram is currently at 2.8/4.0 GB with a few apps open, nothing heavy.
But then again, more ram is used when you have more available.
If you can get 4GB for just a little more than 3, I'd go for it.

>I know its touchscreen but some physical tit/clit would be useful
That would actually be based

You're not wrong
My usage

android dynamically adapts to ram usage.
the more you have free the more its gonna use to cache system funktionality and system apps.
depending on demand it can use as little as 100mb or up to 3 gigs.

I don't read articles son. Reading is for faggots.

>just released and already outdated
>literally losing 50% of volume on a gimmick
You fags are worse than applefags.

this is that god awful thing from that old indiegogo campaign. it still does not have a rear camera, and it has this retarded fuck paper thin popout on the back

Being able to type is not a gimmick but what do you know? Sounds like you can't even read.

Obviously it isn't for the typical snapchat user.

You can type without hardware keyboard. Just as fast, if not faster, and with multiple layouts.

A significant other
Technology doesn't fill the hole anymore

enjoy taking a real phone with you as well as this gimmick piece of shit, oh wait you don't need a camera because you never leave your mother's basement

you can though, there's a 4g model and it has mic and speakers on the outside

I am slower with a software keyboard and it causes me to mistype.
>insulting people on a Mongolian consumer sewing forum for their taste in technology
You are really bent out of shape for some reason but I can't figure out why.

supports Linux too! I hope it lives up to my hype

i wonder how they got mediatek to do it. they are known of locked bootloaders and proprietary driver blobs that work only in one android version.

I've got a new phone just a year ago.
I can't justify purchasing another computer piece.

>preorder via Indiegogo.

nope

>mediatek SoC
>above 500$
AHAHAHAHAHAHA

I don't want a phone with a keyboard

Phones with physical keyboards should stay in the past. It's just more shit that could break in the phone.

faggot

I'm really hoping that Moto mod keyboard isn't going to suck

Not available for retail yet. More information on indiegogo:
indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone#/

$400 is a little steep for a toy like this, but I'd imagine it would be pretty based for portable linux use.

...

>8-10"
>60-70% keyboard
>8gh ram
>core m
>wifi
>battery
>thinkpad like touchpad

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO MAKE ULTIMATE COMFY SHITPOSTING MACHINE?

Why though?

god this looks awesome. cant fucking wait.

>touchscreen clamshell

Welcome to 1996

You can. When you close it, you can hold it in either orientation (there's both a mic and a speaker at either end) and make/take calls. It's got all of the antennas you'll find in a modern smartphone (4G/WiFi/BT/etc.) and it can run a shit-ton more calling software than a normal smartphone due to its Linux dual-boot.

man compaq was fucking awesome

What's the point of having a physical keyboard on a phone? Serious question btw

youtu.be/P6g-d328XaE
Making/taking calls is actually even easier to do on this PDA than it is on traditional smartphones due to the dual mic/speaker setup. Also, you can add a camera for a bit extra when ordering or via an attachment after ordering.

i did a double take seeing COMPAQ on that device.. did they simply buy the rights to put their branding on the cassiopeia A-11 or what is going on here?

/lit/ here,

I often write notes on my phone either when I want to remember something or I have some down time to plan a setting or write an outline for a story. Smartphones are meant for content consumption, not creation. I'm constantly frustrated with the experience of typing on a smartphone and there was no good text editor for Android aside from a feature light port vim. I especially like to write or edit text on my phone doing my lunch break at work or if I'm eating out and waiting for food.

I also just hate Android in general and want to replace it with some other pocket computer that runs GNU/Linux. Might pair this with a feature phone, although I'm not sure how good of a music player it's going to be. I initially got a smartphone to combine my cell phone and iPod because they were the two Electronics I always took out of the house with me.

>you live in a world where phones have better keyboards than laptops

I wouldn't be surprised if the GNU/Linux side of it gets half-assed and it ships with a totally vanilla ARM Ubuntu/Debian installation with no enhancements, tweaks or bundled applications to cater it to the device it's running on. Most of the people pushing for devices like these seem overly focused on just the general hardware ideas and pay no attention to the software component.

But I hope they'll prove me wrong and finally give the world a worthy successor to the HP 95/100/200LX family with a customized tiling window manager and a high-quality built in suite of PIM and productivity applications that don't force you to use the touch screen or rely on an external pointing device for basic functions.

>did they simply buy the rights to put their branding on the cassiopeia A-11 or what is going on here?
Probably exactly what happened. They sold it as a "PC companion" device.

I tried one at a conference and the keyboard was shit. Literally one of the most uncomfortable ones I've used. The keys were mushy with no clear collapse and required way too much force to press.

The guy at the stand said that the unit was just a prototype and it would be fixed in final but I'm quite skeptical.

That suck. I guess I will wait till the 1st batch of review/impression come out from people who bought this item. It do look nice and quite useful for certain type of people.

I don't care much for what they're pre-configure, just that it willl run Plasma Mobile. KDE will probably have everything I want on a smartphone / PDA.

Yes it is. I save all my files and contacts to the card so if I break a phone I lose nothing.

Stop shilling this fake garbage scam every day

Maybe that was a reference design

Being someone who actually has owned and used palmtops and UMPCs rather than just jerking off to pictures of them on Sup Forums, I guarantee that GNU/Linux's base of applications built primarily for 13''+ desktops and laptops with real pointing devices and full keyboards will suck shit with this device and anyone intending to use one solely for that purpose will probably regret it within a week or two. But something like Plasma Mobile definitely has potential for a device like this and is pretty much what I'm getting at, though I would rather have something actually designed by the vendor for this particular use case, both because it would blend in better aesthetically and also because this device isn't a typical smartphone and is intended to be used for different tasks.