I'll wait for retail if ever. I learnt my lesson about backing tech based kickstarters.
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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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Those look really cool, I would be pleasantly surprised if they ever came to fruition
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 '.
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).
Looks suspiciously like a smartphone with an external KB plugin
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.
Basically Android is Linux but......in weirdest way if i must say.
Now....we just need to make it modular right....????
I'm intrigued simply because it's not Android but the keyboard and gamepad are better done with existing products like the click keyboard and Gamesir.