Planet Computers : Gemini - Psion Returns


I have a response, but it doesn't translate to words easily, so I will skip that, the most important part. For the most part I agree with you. If I want to post a link to Amazon, it should be an obvious link to Amazon, not some garbled picture of Amazon and such. Still, the way the software does links still has problems (stuff I can't easily put in words skipped).
 

Good realistic review. It is pretty much exactly as I had expected.

My fear is that many of the recipients are going to be expecting Samsung/Apple out of the box software quality and be loud in their disappointment. Several others are expecting 100% everything working Linux to ship on their device and be loud in their disappointment. Those of us who come from the perspective that we are going to essentially be beta testers - we'll all be happy.
 
Good realistic review. It is pretty much exactly as I had expected.

My fear is that many of the recipients are going to be expecting Samsung/Apple out of the box software quality and be loud in their disappointment. Several others are expecting 100% everything working Linux to ship on their device and be loud in their disappointment. Those of us who come from the perspective that we are going to essentially be beta testers - we'll all be happy.
Exactly my thoughts!
 
Several others are expecting 100% everything working Linux to ship on their device and be loud in their disappointment. Those of us who come from the perspective that we are going to essentially be beta testers - we'll all be happy.
I don't know any linux users who actually expect new hardware to work out of the box. I certainly don't, although that's generally why I buy old hardware and install linux on it after a couple of years.
 
I don't know any linux users who actually expect new hardware to work out of the box. I certainly don't, although that's generally why I buy old hardware and install linux on it after a couple of years.

Apparently there are several on the Indiegogo comments page that are disappointed in not getting full-on-all-drivers-complete dual boot to Debian Linux at eight o' clock day one.

Evil Genius: Slugs! He created slugs. They can't hear! They can't speak! They can't operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic?... If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one! [zaps one of his minions accidentally, minion screams] Sorry.

Code:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Time_Bandits
 
I don't know any linux users who actually expect new hardware to work out of the box.
I'm a little miffed that my office laptop's wifi driver is "in staging". Have to use a wired connection like a pleb until it's considered stable.
 
I'm a little miffed that my office laptop's wifi driver is "in staging". Have to use a wired connection like a pleb until it's considered stable.

Does NDISWrapper still works ? I remember it saved my ass with my first portable PC, there were absolutely no Linux driver for its network card
 
Miffed is fine though, provided you expected to be disappointed
I actually did expect the wifi to work out of the box. Webcam, fingerprint scanner, audio, any special motherboard features I didn't, but wifi has been so stable for years that I literally couldn't believe that there's a chipset that isn't supported, yet here we are.
 
I actually did expect the wifi to work out of the box. Webcam, fingerprint scanner, audio, any special motherboard features I didn't, but wifi has been so stable for years that I literally couldn't believe that there's a chipset that isn't supported, yet here we are.
I keep one of these at work and one at home. I started doing it because my WiFi on my Pandora was never great.
Code:
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Network-802-11-Adapter-Antenna/dp/B008Z9IZSW
I've kept them ready-at-hand because they work.

Note - there are newer versions of the same thing that might be faster - but the newer they are the less likely they are to work with everything. So - this slightly older version 802.11 N/g/b is just the ticket for ubiquity. Plus they're dirt cheap. I think I paid $20 for 4 of them form Ebay a few years back. One was bad. I shrugged then used the others.
 
That's the second review saying the keyboard could be better. That's a shame, given they started off with a S5 keyboard which was pretty much bulletproof, but that didn't have the magnetic collapse mechansim, so I guess they needed to redo quite a lot of it.
 
That's the second review saying the keyboard could be better. That's a shame, given they started off with a S5 keyboard which was pretty much bulletproof, but that didn't have the magnetic collapse mechansim, so I guess they needed to redo quite a lot of it.
In this review, they blame the Sailfish Version for the bad keystroke recognition, not the hardware keyboard itself.
 
In this review, they blame the Sailfish Version for the bad keystroke recognition, not the hardware keyboard itself.
Reviewers - get handed a beta/development version of a device/software and told it is still in development. They then proceed to trash the device based on things that haven't been completed yet. Then we wonder why companies are so secretive about their development process.
 
@Grench: Would you review the device for our community when it arrives? (With the Pyra and Pandora in mind?)

Gesendet von meinem SM-N9005 mit Tapatalk
 
@Grench: Would you review the device for our community when it arrives? (With the Pyra and Pandora in mind?)

Gesendet von meinem SM-N9005 mit Tapatalk

Of course. My order number is between 2300 and 2400 though, so the odds are that there will already be lots of reviews here there and everywhere by the time I get mine.

Setting expectations - I'm more prone to long written form than video or pictures.

My initial review/reactions/frustrations/successes with the Kobo Aura One as an example: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/kobo-aura-one.82573/#post-1432086
 
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