12-23-2019, 08:27 AM
Totally agree with Nas , flip covers are quite popular and also block the screen so notifications can't be seen at a glance. Opening to see your notifications is no big deal if you're accustomed to it.
I'm very interested in the psion style keyboard and would be happy without any secondary screen; less complexity, fewer things to break, lower cost.
We should consider the keyboard layout: specifically punctuation and symbols carefully - I've used a GPD pocket 2 UMPC and the apostrophe being in a non-standard position greatly slows down one's typing speed / comfort (in English at least).
The psion series 5 used a very useable / sane layout for standard punctuation, eg. having the apostrophe as a standard (not fn) key to the right of the "l" key- so care should be taken not to mess this up if adding | or other symbols geared towards terminal usage.
Perhaps it would be better to add any necessary, but less frequently used, symbols through a function key - there were many unused fn key combinations on the original psion 5 keyboard.
(12-14-2019, 09:16 AM)nas Wrote: I think anyone who has owned a booklet or flip cover should be okay without a secondary screen on a clamshell keyboard case. If you really depend on notifications then a better solution is the pinetime as a companion device.
I'm very interested in the psion style keyboard and would be happy without any secondary screen; less complexity, fewer things to break, lower cost.
We should consider the keyboard layout: specifically punctuation and symbols carefully - I've used a GPD pocket 2 UMPC and the apostrophe being in a non-standard position greatly slows down one's typing speed / comfort (in English at least).
The psion series 5 used a very useable / sane layout for standard punctuation, eg. having the apostrophe as a standard (not fn) key to the right of the "l" key- so care should be taken not to mess this up if adding | or other symbols geared towards terminal usage.
Perhaps it would be better to add any necessary, but less frequently used, symbols through a function key - there were many unused fn key combinations on the original psion 5 keyboard.
