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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Latest updates on Indiegogo

« on: July 26, 2019, 02:49:54 pm »

A message from "The other side", (indiegogo)...
[!--quoteo(post=0:date=:name=Planet Computers : 1 hour ago)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Planet Computers : 1 hour ago)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Big Cosmo backer update coming end of the day tomorrow!

And where is this quote from? No update today and it's well past Eod today in the UK
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That was posted on July 11, look at the original post  And that update turned out to be Update #20.

New update (#21) is coming this weekend.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Welcome to those from the Indiegogo forum

« on: July 01, 2019, 06:54:37 pm »

It would be really nice if we could also run Ubuntu Touch on the Cosmo

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / The Cosmo is still considered to be on schedule, it seems.

« on: June 28, 2019, 05:10:27 pm »

I think hardest part of Cosmo is everything around 2nd display

I think so too. But testing will most likely focus mainly on the HW side of things. The SW of the 2nd display can be optimized after the Cosmo is officially out.

I think it was observed a in an interview with one of the Psion engineers- explaining why there were some glaring deficiencies in the original Series 5 ROM such as no sort function in the spreadsheet- that every product development cycle eventually reaches a point where the pressure to launch exceeds the pressure to improve the product further, and that's when the first (imperfect) production version emerges blinking into the light of day.

Nowadays, when updating firmware is a comparative cinch, partially-functional software at launch is theoretically less of an issue, so long as the development team is not disbanded or seconded to other projects as soon as the hardware is launched.

From a PR perspective however, since the external screen is such a seminal feature of the Cosmo, it would be hard to launch before it is in a reasonably functional state.

That's why I said "can be optimized after launch" , not "can be made functional after launch" .

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / The Cosmo is still considered to be on schedule, it seems.

« on: June 25, 2019, 08:24:33 am »

I think hardest part of Cosmo is everything around 2nd display

I think so too. But testing will most likely focus mainly on the HW side of things. The SW of the 2nd display can be optimized after the Cosmo is officially out.