A Psion Palmtop Successor Has Arrived and It Runs Android and Linux

'A lot of people probably remember the 1990s palmtop computers made by
Psion fondly. The clamshell-design palmtops were pocketable, black and
white, but had a working stylus and a fantastic tactile foldout QWERTY
keyboard that you could type pretty substantial documents on or even
write code with. A different company -- Planet Computers -- has now
produced a spiritual successor to the old Psion palmtops called the
Gemini PDA that is much like an old Psion but with the latest Android
smartphone hardware in it and a virtually identical tactile keyboard.
It can also dual boot to Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Sailfish) alongside
Android. The technical specs are a MediaTek deca-core processor, 4GB
RAM, 64GB storage (plus microSD slot), 4G, 802.11c Wi-Fi, GPS,
Bluetooth, eSIM support, and 4,220mAh battery. The screen measures in
at 5.99-inches with a 2,160 x 1,080 (403ppi) resolution. The only
thing missing seems to be the stylus -- but perhaps that would have
complicated manufacturing of this niche-device in its first production
r'

-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/02/20/2241216

Yes, it's back! :-)

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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