Planet Computers demoed the Cosmo Communicator, a clamshell PDA [Personal Digital Assistant] which can run Android/Linux or GNU/Linux, at CES. It is expected to be on the market by June 2019. The device has a miniature keyboard, essential for a PDA, and many additional features including the ability to operate as a dual-SIM phone. It also features dual displays: a 2-inch AMOLED which is visible when the device is closed and a larger (5.99-inch, 2160×1080) LCD touchscreen LCD panel visible when the device is opened to access the keyboard.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 11 2019, @04:51PM (2 children)
I think Palm hit a niche: pre-smartphone... when everyone's phone did everything the Palm Pilot did, why carry a Palm Pilot too? Oh, and they made a horribly non-competitive smartphone, if they had gotten the phone right I think they'd still be a major player. Founders leaving to focus on the slot-expandable Handspring Visor didn't help much, either. They're still kicking around these days in the AI field with Numenta - completely different thing from PDAs.
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(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:11AM (1 child)
I still have a Handspring Visor in box of junk somewhere -- not that it was junk, I really liked it and used it a lot back in the day, but I never did buy any of the things you could plug into it.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:38PM
My company made a wearable bio-monitor as an expander slot for the Visor, dot-com timeframe (obviously), biggest PITA was expanding the battery capacity of the Visor, their circuitry actively made that more difficult than necessary...
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