Planet Gemini PDA: The Dream Of The 90s Is Alive [MrMobile]

The Planet Gemini feels like a device from some alternate universe where the Personal Digital Assistant never died.

Its eyeglass-case chassis evokes the old Sony Tablet P, while its miniature QWERTY keyboard suggests a laptop that stumbled into a shrinking machine. But its closest relative is probably the Psion PDA from the 1990s, a device beloved as much for its powerful scheduling software as for its robust physical keyboard.

The Planet Gemini is no mere throwback. It’s available in WiFi and 4G versions (for both GSM and CDMA networks), it dual-boots Android and Linux, and you can even make phone calls on it.

Planet says the Gemini is meant for bloggers, longform writers and other creators who live and die by a physical keyboard, and it’s easy to see why it’d be a tempting purchase for such folks. Still, it’s hard to envision many people ponying up for a device that slots in somewhere between the smartphone and laptop, yet professes to replace neither.

Of course, you don’t *need* to imagine it; you can just head on over to Planet’s Indiegogo page to see how many customers have already devoted their dollars to picking up a Gemini of their own.

Join Michael "MrMobile" Fisher in this hands-on at CES 2018.


(by: MrMobile)