What I like about this is that I could theorhetically install a non-QWERTY keyboard instead of being locked to such an inefficient layout. Yes, eventually you can learn to touch type, but learning it would be nice to have the keys since it will be a nonstandard layout at that size & when you hand it off to other folks, it’d be completely unexpected to hit q & get a '.
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Sorry, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. If you can't make this stuff at scale, no way you could sell it at $160 a unit.
They just use really low spec hardware…
While I hope I'm wrong, I agree this thing will go the way of most Kickstarters. It is interesting, but it will never have appeal outside of the hobby space, and the cash needed to get this thing off the ground will be immense.
A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it's trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.
I think all I really want is something shaped like this with a keyboard, like an old Blackberry that could be used as a terminal.
A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it’s trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.
Isn't that exactly what made Raspberry Pis a massive hit? Being able to be so many different things for so many different groups of people, maximizing the groups it appealed to?
Yeah, but raspberry handhelds are chonky at best.
Right, which is why I'm implying this could be a hit because it's the right form factor aimed at a myriad of use-cases.
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I agree that id like a nice handheld terminal, but dont a lot of people like handheld emulation consoles? Hell both of those sound great to me. I would totally get both the game pad and keyboard if i went for it.
My real concern is that it would be garbage and/or the company would fold and support would become non existent.
Maybe i just got burned by pocketchip
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I'll wait for retail if ever. I learnt my lesson about backing tech based kickstarters.
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Those look really cool, I would be pleasantly surprised if they ever came to fruition
I'm intrigued. And although I read the article, I'm not entirely sure who or what this is for. It's cool, but... what?
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I've learned not to get my hopes up with kickstarters but I'll keep an eye on this one
I'm still too dumb to learn... Ask me about my OKPad! In fact, ask me for my OKPad. Please, take the god awful thing off my hands!
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Looks suspiciously like a smartphone with an external KB plugin
I like the form factor, but seeing the issues with supply on hackberrypi and uconsole, im hoping they dont have the same issue. Lots of people like that form factor (including myself).
Basically Android is Linux but......in weirdest way if i must say.
Now....we just need to make it modular right....????
Looks nice and I'd like it even more, had it an USB-C port with display output.
But even in the current configuration it's a nice gadget at a reasonable price point.
4 GB RAM is not exactly great for a kind of desktop computer (even with Linux), but using this thing as a server with a built-in keyboard and display would have saved me some trouble I faced with unresponsive RaspberryPis.