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Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo

posted by martyb on Tuesday November 06 2018, @12:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the nostalgia-ain't-what-it-used-to-be...it's-so-much-more-expensive-now dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

El Reg:

Planet Computers, creator of the Gemini PDA, has pulled the covers off its next-generation device – the Cosmo Communicator.

Planet brought the clamshell QWERTY back to the market 17 years after Psion made its last PDA*, and will continue to sell it. But Cosmo is even more ambitious, intending to fully replace your phone.

The lid of the Cosmo features an AMOLED panel for notifications, and below it, a multifunction rocker switch that makes answering or rejecting a phone call easy (it also incorporates a fingerprint sensor). The rear features a 24MP imaging unit.

QWERTY keyboard good, $779 MSRP bad.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @01:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @01:05PM (#758479)

    I have the gemini. It would be nice, if there was any non-community effort being put into the software. Planet has consistently disappointed me at every turn. There are still backers waiting on perks for the gemini to be shipped. Linux support is laughable, although mainline kernel support looks to be just over the horizon (in no way courtesy of planet). Sailfish is nice, but there is no way to flash only sailfish, you have to have an android partition as the default boot...

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:05PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:05PM (#758665)

    I'm not sure if that device is really for me, but it's great to see people trying different things to see if there's a market.

    If I travelled for work more often I might want one.