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And ever since, big phone makers have been trying to copy it across their entire lineup. Samsung had the ultimate 'not an iPhone' in their Galaxy Note line-up through the Galaxy Note 3. It was the ultimate 'nerd phone'. It had a real headphone jack, microSDXC support, a garaged stylus, a...

Because there are many pieces of plastics in a case assembly set (battery door, base, stylus clip, stylus, keyboard surround (top of bottom), inner lid, outer lid, translucent logo, vinyl logo holder sticker). If every order had the option to 'customize' every piece of this, the production line...

The edited images above assume that the keyboard surround and the upper half of the lower case are two parts. They are not. That is all one piece of plastic. The lid bezel swap is theoretically possible, but likely impractical for a production perspective. Come on folks, ED is quite busy and...

If I recall, the choice really came down to a 'really crappy camera' (~640x480 no flash crappy) at increased costs of ~$50 with no real good place to put it physically in the unit (lid would have added 5mm, base would have required loosing buttons and having the camera looking back up your nose...

Real life has gone quite crazy these last few months. Up until yesterday, for example, my Steam account said 0 hours played in the last two weeks. I snuck in 2 hours of play on Sunday. The translucent piece illuminates with the LEDs very nicely. Right now the LEDs seem to mostly match up to...

None of the above. Get it going on the OMAP and wait for the -right- SoC to come along. What is -right-? <=5 W <=14 nm 64 bit LPDDR4 or better (more efficient) 2 cores that can dynamically adjust their speed/draw. Long term production support Open drivers (no blobs) would be ideal, but we will...

The logo piece can be directly printed in whatever color ED wants. My prototype has the sticker he's using. It is perfect to task and needs no changes as is. Keep in mind that it needs to be 'light' because it -is- a window for the two color LED lights that live behind it.

That - that exactly is why the 'keyboard wars' were a success. Also worth mentioning is EDs persistence through many iterations of keymat material, construction, fitment, sizing, keycaps design, etc. Getting the keymat and keyboard layout -right- is a critical aspect of this fantastic little...

I have seen this misinterpretation before. People have seen pictures of the Pyra and thought, "Looks like a laptop - must be able to type on it like a laptop." If you put a Pyra on top of and left edge of the case flush to the left edge of the left edge of the leftmost keys on a standard...

They -really- need to swap positions between tab and caps lock on that or rethink ig. Caps lock could quite happily live on the Fn+key layer like we have it on the Pyra. How often do you use tab in web forms and web pages? All the time. How often do you use Caps lock, if ever? Otherwise it...

My Planet Computers Cosmo is my daily driver phone, email, etc. tool. I can touch type fairly well on the keyboard even though I have fat fingers. It is -not- the same as a 'real keyboard'. I can hit 120+wpm on my Vortex Race3 keyboards, but do around 60-75 on the Cosmo. Slower, but not so...

Sorry, but the N900 is a device I have never owned. I have all sorts of Palm OS devices (TRG pro, Garmin Palm OS GPS, Palm W, Tapwave Zodiac). Pandora, Pyra prototype, Planet Computers Gemini and Cosmo, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and 3 and 12.2, LG V35, Acer Spin 13. That is about it - which seems...

That wasn't quite the end of it - there were several weeks of conversation with a limited audience of @4 of us to take #7 and tweak it to become what we have now. In that survey from 2015 (has it been that long ago?) my submissions were #6 and #7. The brightness key from #6 made it into the...

@Neelix @ible The physical layout of the Pyra keys was pre-ordained by ED prior to the lengthy discussions regarding layout of the labels on those physical keys. The physical layout was considered 'fixed'. Much discussion ensued. At the end of it, a poll by ED was done using the top (10?)...

That is from ~1997 though. Roughly $1700 in today's $.

Circa ~1997... IBM PC110. I had thought about buying one back when they were still new, but back then $1000 was a -lot- of money. Not to mention I would have to buy it on the grey market from Japan and the original OS was in Japanese. Some day I would like to actually be able to see one of...

@SNESFAN Grim but true. The most identifiable 'risk factor' associated with 'complications' resulting in the top 6 causes of death, though, is age. Age is not the direct cause that turns off the switch, but it does put a heavy thumb on the scales of survival.

Of course. But one handed typing is barely a step up from hunt and peck. If I have anything longer than three words to write I will seek out a flat surface to use.

I have both a Gemini and a Cosmo. The Gemini was great, but the Cosmo is awesome. I have big fat fingers and I can touch type on it efficiently. It does -not- work as well for 'air thumb typing'. But, if I have a flat surface or can convince a buddy to hold his hands out flat for a table, I...

I have not disassembled my prototype and don't plan to for the moment. Did the prototypes that shipped get heat sinks? We're all feeling the impacts of this global pandemic. It should not surprise anyone that this is going to impact production of things like the Pyra. [derailment - sorry]...