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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Shipping email (I got my Gemini PDA)

« on: May 16, 2018, 02:28:03 pm »

Just got my UK device. Order ID in the 760s. Happily exploring the device!

Me too, #2312. Now comes weeks of setting & resetting.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / UK Backers - when do you expect your Gemini?

« on: May 15, 2018, 06:08:52 pm »

I am backer number 4394 and tonight I had a notification that it was at Gatwick hub.

Me too and as I live & work within 20 miles of Gatwick hopefully I'll get my sweaty paws on it tomorrow.

Well done Planet (hopefully)

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Has mass production started?

« on: March 14, 2018, 04:25:21 pm »

Ergo I think Dr. Janko misspoke.

He also said he thought there's a market for 10 million of these beasties, at the current rate of production that'll take 1,500 years to roll out of the factory.Personally I reckon there's a market for no more than 250,000 assuming they can get them to market.
They need to increase production by a factor of 100 to stand any chance of success.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Gemini PDA Gen 2 Features Request

« on: March 10, 2018, 06:38:27 am »

Given that the camera is optional and to be honest a rear mounted 5MP job is pretty useless but if it there was an infra red job available I could see that being useful for hardware troubleshooting (finding a hot spot on a board indicates a point of failure).
No reason why one couldn't be available for the first iteration.
Most digital cameras work well into the IR but have filters to remove it, a neat bit of design would be to have a camera with 3 options, 1) Normal with IR filter, 2) Visible light filter to image just IR, 3) No filter for composite visible and IR image.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / A list of all the hardware/software issues reported so far

« on: March 06, 2018, 08:08:59 pm »

seems one of the backers is having compass issue...

I was wondering if that might be a problem considering the thing is stuffed with magnets for the keyboard and possibly some in the clasp as well.