An open source portable terminal for every dev

Re:An open source portable terminal for every dev by ogre_codes on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:42PM (#25268305)

> I think I proposed previously that this would be an awesome piece of kit for a mobile business wanting to give receipts for cash purchases.

The printer makes sense for that, but nothing else about the rest of the machine suggests "Mobile sales machine".

> Once you've got an SD card, support cables, etc, you're looking at quite a reasonable second-hand laptop. If you're able to go desktop, sometimes you can even pick up something for free.

Yeah. Much better suggestions.

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Re:An open source portable terminal for every dev by bArray on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:52AM (#25274553)

> The printer makes sense for that, but nothing else about

> the rest of the machine suggests "Mobile sales machine".

Sure, but I bet a mobile sales machine could be a killer target audience for it.

I remember being in quite a few scenarios where we were writing out receipts by hand, and the customer saying "hmm, I'm not sure my work will accept this". Being able to print off something more legitimate looking (even with serial numbers, etc) could be really quite good.

I think it should also have:

* Some method to process card payments (if possible)

* A version that comes loaded with store-software ready to rock and role (even possibly connected to some cloud service they run)

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