Thread: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
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2016-03-14 , 15:06
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Dear lord... the Sony UX1XN was released in 2007 or so, right?

What has been launched in (let's say) 2015 or 2016 instead? All of this old tech being pushed into recent discussion just doesn't instill hope that anything with modern drivers, features, display, CPU/GPU and/or functionality in mind will ever occur.
New model? We have iPad, Pro, Mini, Mini Pro......

ARM tablet running Android (apart from Jolla tablet, which can not get easily.)

Or Windows 10 tabs? (still possible to run Linux)

But the problem is why want a 2015/2016 device when the task can be done perfectly on old machines, where old machines still have functions that modern devices do not have:

- A reasonable size, I will say under 7 inch otherwise it's hard to hand held. That eliminates most of the "modern" devices.

- A physical connected physical keyboard. And connect to the mainbody in one piece. The modern devices either use wireless connections or detached physical connection which is not handy when comes to "handheld"

- A removable battery.

These only exists on old devices.

It's not we don't want to talk about modern devices because there aren't any for handheld.
 

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