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: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday January 11 2019, @05:39PM
Interesting... It's on my bucket list of todo's to try and root something Android-y and drop Linux on it to have tried the experience and without other immediate purposes in mind. Sounds like I didn't miss a whole bunch.
I've experimented with trying to word process on tablets and phones (and going back to Palm T|X, Jornada 720, Newton MP2000, and come to that TRS-80 Model 100 as a 'laptop' that wasn't one as we came to eventually understand it). The sticking point always seemed to be getting whatever I typed into whatever use purpose I had in mind, whether that was printing, publishing, or archiving in a way that I could rely on for years to come. (Though running email on the MP2000 via a plug-in modem card was awesome). Always too much effort to just using a straight IBM laptop (including the Tandy 1100FD - heavy and not much battery but one of the best I ever used for just banging words out IMVVHO).
This sig for rent.