Charbax Interview with Planet computers at their office
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I watched through the video and took a few notes on important (to me) bits.
4:30 Sailfish has GPU acceleration and 4G and 4G calls working. I am -really- starting to look forward to trying out Sailfish. It looks awesome.
16:30 The USB Hub has Ethernet, dual USB 3.0 host ports and a USB C power port - but cannot charge the device while connected. The Hub will only connect to the left port. The Gemini will only charge from the left port. The HDMI adapter can only be used in the right port. The right port cannot support the hub, but can support a single USB device (mouse example). Not ideal, but they recognize that and are working on it.
19:00 Plan to open source release the actual bootloader source code. This is a big deal. It could mean being able to boot from microSDXC.
23:00 Interviewer asks if the unit he is holding is an X27. The Planet Computers guy does not correct him to X25. Are X27 being produced now?
27:40 Keyboard is the most important part. Without it the device is useless.
33:30 Planet Computers is hiring Customer Support people in London. I take this as a good thing and a solid step forward in a plan to become an ongoing concern. I.e signs of plans for a life beyond Indiegogo.
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Yes, it's clearly possible to adapt. I can't say how easy it is from that video, especially given he's already lied about the feedback on the early shipments (but for understandable reasons). The pitch of the sound sounds lower in pitch than me typing on my 5MX keyboard, so I guess it might have a heavier feel, but I don't really know. The fact he could type that sentence without making any mistakes is certainly promising though.
The feedback that they get on the early shipments is most likely mostly positive. Especially if you include 'no feedback' as a positive. The errors/issues/oops cases are going to be the most obvious and show up as the most angry in the public forums. Think about it. They shipped 800+ units. There are a few dozen public complainers. That is about 3%. Expected device failure rate for this should be in the 5-8% range for a new device from a new company. I think they're doing fine, but they need to get an RMA process in place to placate the rightfully annoyed people who received faulty units.
