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Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by jodrellblank on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:50PM (#15826754)
Probably not that many people will prefer a keyboard-driven PDA style of device

An iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard doesn't feel like it's keyboard-driven, it feels like a touchscreen GUI device with a second-class accessory only for typing into textboxes.

Is Android any different in regards to this "feel of being keyboard driven" - and is the Gemini customised at all around this?

Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5 by dm319 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:24PM (#15833855)
I think that is something we'll have to look out for, because you're absolutely right that a phone plus bluetooth keyboard doesn't mean a good computing paradigm.

They've said that they've brought in a lot of keyboard shortcuts - for example for accessing the dock applications. It looks like they're recreating the Agenda app too, which was keyboard driven (the best bit was a pop-up month calendar with a press of tab, which folded out to three months then a year with repeated presses, which could be navigated by cursor).

On my android phone, a bt keyboard already has some shortcuts - like alt-tab to application switch, and I think the Windows key brings up the homescreen. You can get folders and files on the homescreen/desktop with 3rd party apps.