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posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the take-my-money dept.

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.

Size:
171.4 x 79.3 x 16mm, 320g
Software:
Android 9 Pie; Linux OS dual boot (user choice)
SoC:
MediaTek P70 Octa-core SoC @ 2 GHz
RAM and storage:
6 GB of RAM with 128GB of storage; microSD card slot
Battery:
4,220mAh
External Display:
2-inch (570×240) AMOLED
Display:
5.99-inch (2160×1080) LCD
Connectivity:
Wifi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC
Ports:
2 USB Type-C ports, 3.5mm headphone jack
External camera:
24 MP
Internal camera:
5 MP
Miscellaneous:
Dual nano-SIM, eSIM support, fingerprint gestures

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday January 11 2019, @05:39PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday January 11 2019, @05:39PM (#785142) Journal

    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).

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