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Planet Gemini PDA Hands-On: The Dream Of The 90s Is Alive - YouTube
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back in the 1990's when cell phones and
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pdas were still separate things over a
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million people bought something called
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the Scion a durable clamshell organizer
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with reliable software and a large
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keyboard 20 years later the scions
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spiritual successor has finally arrived
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from CES 2018 in Las Vegas I'm mister
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mobile with a first look at the Gemini
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from Planet computers
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yeah but what is it that's the number
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one question I overheard during my brief
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time with the Gemini on the show floor
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and you know it's an understandable one
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this thing isn't much bigger than a
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large smartphone some versions of it
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have 4G built in and you can even make
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calls on it and yet it's not intended to
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be a smart phone replacement Planet says
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the Gemini was built to be a tool for
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creators bloggers social media mavens
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people whose work days are measured in
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emails per hour and the core feature for
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that audience is of course the physical
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keyboard while it's usable as a thumb
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board it's really meant for a tabletop
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and making that possible is an ingenious
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folding metal extension that slides out
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from the hinge when open keeping it
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balanced while you're clacking away much
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like a blackberry there are function
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shortcuts mapped to some of the keys
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that let you change the screen
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brightness or adjust the volume or call
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up the emoji panel some of the software
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like the agenda was heavily inspired by
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the scion of the nineties where the old
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Scion had a row of physical buttons for
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shortcuts the Gemini uses a popover
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panel in software that you can customize
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yourself if you want more real estate
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than the six inch display gives you you
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can pick up an HDMI adapter to plug into
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a bigger monitor through one of the USB
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C ports and if you need a little more
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precision than the touchscreen offers
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you can pair a bluetooth mouse as well
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while there's no external display there
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is an LED strip that's programmable so
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you can set color sequences for specific
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alerts like email or reminders or phone
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calls those phone calls are pretty neat
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since the two ports on the front are
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both speaker and microphone so there is
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no upside down or right setup you just
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hold it to your head and talk if video
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calls are more your speed there's a five
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megapixel front-facing webcam and your
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choice of side firing loudspeakers or a
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headphone jack
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and if Android isn't enough to sate your
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mobile computing needs you do have the
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option to boot into Linux as well
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as excited as I am about the gem and I
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bring him back the dream of the 90s I do
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have a couple concerns for one thing
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it's running last year's Android nougat
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apparently because Oreo support has yet
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to arrive for the mediatek chipset this
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thing is built on also I wasn't really
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encouraged by my first few minutes with
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the keyboard first off there's no
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backlight which is a big downer and
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secondly I felt like the keys were on
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the mushy side I had to really punch
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down on some of them to get keystrokes
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to register now remember I'm at CES and
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this was a pre-production model pulled
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off the assembly line days ago I'll need
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a full review out in the real world with
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a retail model to evaluate it properly
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the planet Gemini is the product of an
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IndieGoGo campaign that's still rolling
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on buyers have their option of Wi-Fi
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only and cellular models the latter of
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which is compatible with both GSM and
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CDMA networks
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yay for Verizon and Sprint at press time
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the Wi-Fi model is available for $299
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the 4G version is 399 and a variety of
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accessories are on offer including an
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external camera for an extra 49 bucks
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I'll drop the link to the campaign in
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the description below those who backed
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early on will start getting their units
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later this month with deliveries
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continuing through the spring and
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hopefully review devices will start
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landing on desks like mine soon too if
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that happens those following me on
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Instagram at the mr. mobile will be the
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first to see the unboxing
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2018 in Las Vegas folks until next time
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