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posted by martyb on Thursday September 01 2016, @04:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the CHIPs-Ahoy! dept.

Several sites have articles about the PocketCHIP, a handheld computer that was funded through Kickstarter. It seems to have shipped to its sponsors, or at least to review sites, but the company's Web site displays "Estimated Shipping October 2016" for the rest of us.

The device is built around the CHIP computer, which has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-R8 processor, Mali 400 GPU, 4 GB of flash, 512 MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4, and USB 3.0. The PocketCHIP adds a plastic case, keyboard, lithium polymer battery and 480-by-272-pixel touch screen. It comes with Debian Linux and the PICO-8 software suite, which allows one to create and play video games.

The PocketCHIP is being sold for $69 ($49 for those who sponsored it), and the CHIP for $9.

Accessories are also offered to add VGA or HDMI output to the CHIP. It appears that owners of the PocketCHIP would have to take it apart to use those.

Articles:

Further information:
  manufacturer's blog


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  • (Score: 2) by joshuajon on Thursday September 01 2016, @02:50PM

    by joshuajon (807) on Thursday September 01 2016, @02:50PM (#396186)

    I very much like my pocketchip but was somewhat disappointed by the software that it shipped with. I understand they felt that they underestimated the draw of the pocketchip and subsequently the market it would go to so instead of shipping with a fully functional desktop UI/WM, they came up with a much simpler interface for the masses. It's cute and definitely user friendly, but kind of a pain to work with. After a bit of tinkering I have light-dm set up to prompt for which GUI I'd prefer to log in with so it's a lot more flexible.

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