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Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the new Psion Series 5![]() quote:The new Gemini PDA, from Planet Computers, is the spiritual successor to the Psion Series 5 organiser from the late 1990s*; A Personal Digital Assistant that I swore by, using it to write copy for newspapers and magazines, and also for communicating on bulletin boards, via a modem connection over Infrared to various phones. quote:The Gemini PDA is an all new device that has modern specs, but retains the original keyboard design. Not a lookalike, but the same tech that made it so uniquely comfortable to type on. quote:Unlike the original, the Gemini PDA allows you to make calls too. Whether you will want to depends firmly on whether this is going to be your only device, or a secondary device with its own SIM. ![]()
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they could’ve given that money to the sick and starving instead of pissing it away in a guaranteed failure. ![]()
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oh boy another android device i can't wait to see how hosed up the install will get after about a year or after an os update.
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this really just makes me want to grab a psion 5 to play around with
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Douglas Adams: "The Little Computer that Could" Charles Stross: "Netwalker" these sci-fi Brits really love their Psions
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cool netbooks
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it's a less ugly gpd pocket imo
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i'm sure that will be absolute garbage to use but i think it looks really neat ![]()
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super excited for this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160109908A1/en
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It's the only PDA most folks here will ever get !!
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I loving love these sorts of stupid ultra portable palmtop things always totally pointless in design, better as a prop for a cyberpunk movie than anything else, and typically really expensive or even flat out vaporware and as dumb as they are I always want one
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i used an oqo once. it was kind of cool as a novelty but it was pre-ssd so it had a spinny disk that made it suck hard
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I imported a sharp zaurus sl-c1000 and used it to write college papers and mess around w/ python
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the sl-c3000 and up had a built in microdrive
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its a classic example of something dreamed about in scifi for decades, but when it finally comes into reality its pretty much immediately eclipsed by some other technology and in the end it turns out it never really mattered
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lancemantis posted:its a classic example of something dreamed about in scifi for decades, but when it finally comes into reality its pretty much immediately eclipsed by some other technology and in the end it turns out it never really mattered exactly!! but my idiot nerd-lizard-brain still screams GIMME!!! whenever I see something like this if I had more money and less willpower my home would look little different from an electronics recycler
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What were those lovely android phablets with the keyboard dock we've already done those and everyone hated them
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paaaadphone? oh, it was the "Eee Pad Transformer"
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Motorola xooooooooom
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oh that was just a tablet, huh I seem to recall a “phone” around that era that ran some Linux and had a keyboard + screen dock
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was the atrix![]()
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wasn't there an ubuntu phone as well?
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there was also the palm folio, which was basically a netbook looking terminal for your treo![]()
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NoneMoreNegative posted:It's the only PDA most folks here will ever get !!
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pram posted:was the atrix hell yes infernal machines posted:there was also the palm folio, which was basically a netbook looking terminal for your treo oh yeah lol
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netbooks are gonna go to the moon!
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pram posted:was the atrix hahah there it is
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pad phone
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a company i worked for had a PDA you could buy as a wireless control for some medical device the thing would constantly drop connection and was prone to having batteries pop if it sat on the charging dock too long
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i preordered this at launch, the last i heard it should ship in january
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touch-optimized lunix if only unity had lived to see this ![]()
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THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT lovely POINTLESS PORTABLES i seriously love this garbage so goddamn much. i posted a bunch in the gassed portable computer thread paul allen funded this turd, which was utterly destroyed by netbooks. first shown in 2003, not released until 2007, and it cost two thousand loving earth dollars. ![]() the oqo, which shaggar mentioned. vaporware for the longest time, they finally released it and i think got maybe 3 revisions out! the first version had this ridiculous "docking cable" shown below ![]() the s-xgen handtop, by some company called seamless. i never heard of this thing until i was googling for pictures of hosed up portables. it's a loving inch thick windows mobile PDA with a flip-out folding keyboard, and according to an old article cost $1400. IT IS A PDA WITH A loving ETHERNET PORT JESUS CHRIST ![]() ![]()
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Tankakern posted:i preordered this at launch, the last i heard it should ship in january if you're serious and you actually get one you better post a review
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infernal machines posted:there was also the palm folio, which was basically a netbook looking terminal for your treo the most baffling thing about the foleo was how it came out in 2007 yet had the exact styling of a business laptop from 1997.
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the Gemini looks like a '90s throwback which makes it superior to most modern attempts to make a smartphone - netbook Transformer
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SO DEMANDING posted:THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT lovely POINTLESS PORTABLES im still rock hard for the 770/n800/n810, nokias weird linux tablet released during the early days of the iphone ![]() ![]()
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still better than most modern android phones tbh
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Agile Vector posted:im still rock hard for the 770/n800/n810, nokias weird linux tablet released during the early days of the iphone i think that's what i really love about some of this stuff, how it was all completely obliterated by the iphone, netbooks, and later the ipad
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Agile Vector posted:im still rock hard for the 770/n800/n810, nokias weird linux tablet released during the early days of the iphone i owned both the 770 and the n800 in fact, i still have the n800 around somewhere. they were, by the standards of the time, surprisingly usable for browsing the web
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infernal machines posted:i owned both the 770 and the n800 i had the n800 and it really was solid at the time, and some hobbiest project ported webkit over a bit later so it kept up for a good stretch they were clever machines, double layer resistive membranes so they could detect stylus vs touch inputs and show the right keyboard, a full software repo ui so linux anything could be installed and managed easily by average users, and a camera that swiveled so it could take (mediocre) front and back photos and do video calls the screen was really nice fore the time, too, and by modern standards the form factor isnt too bad if a bit chunky
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