Ever since I got my first psion 3a and psion’s demise soon after, I’ve really missed having a fully featured computer in a palm-size device. Since then I’ve had the Nokia E90 communicator and N900, and at the moment I’m using a google pixel with a cumbersome bluetooth keyboard, but none quite recreated the experience of having a half-decent keyboard in your pocket (the N900 was terrific in that I had linux/debian running on my phone - but the keyboard was not quite what the psions were). So I was very excited to see this indie gogo campaign which has collaborated with one of the original designers of the psion to bring a modern day psion to market.
I think this is great for anyone who has a lot of email to deal with while on the move, anyone who likes to write or take notes (especially at conferences where a laptop is just too bulky), or even someone who likes to type a lot on forums/reddit etc! It would also be great for people need to SSH into a server on the move, and for myself, I’d like to use it to write and run programs on the move for my job.
Anyway, I’m thinking ubuntu-mate would be well placed as their linux distribution, and they are currently looking into their options for getting the device to dual-boot android and linux. Any thoughts? Anyone else as excited about this device as I am?
