I still don’t understand why PDAs are no longer a thing. Make a phone a bit thicker, add ports, thumb keyboard… I remember being able to SSH to servers from my Zaurus and actually do things using the hardware keyboard. Or SSH to my n900 and install packages there. With android I just lost the interest. It doesn’t feel like a personal computer anymore.
F(x)tec sold their phones with physical keyboards for the longest time. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have a newer model and their company seems to have pivoted to “web3” so I’m pretty sure they’re no longer relevant.
With how thin modern phones are, I bet you can make a keyboard case and still end up with a device thinner than the old PDA phones. They wouldn’t be very popular though so the price would probably be way too high to make sense.
I still don’t understand why PDAs are no longer a thing. Make a phone a bit thicker, add ports, thumb keyboard… I remember being able to SSH to servers from my Zaurus and actually do things using the hardware keyboard. Or SSH to my n900 and install packages there. With android I just lost the interest. It doesn’t feel like a personal computer anymore.
F(x)tec sold their phones with physical keyboards for the longest time. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have a newer model and their company seems to have pivoted to “web3” so I’m pretty sure they’re no longer relevant.
With how thin modern phones are, I bet you can make a keyboard case and still end up with a device thinner than the old PDA phones. They wouldn’t be very popular though so the price would probably be way too high to make sense.