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by KlaymenDK 2302 days ago
YES!!!1!

At least, I would love it if there were. Personally, my favourite device was a Palm, my brother's was a Psion, but the basic idea is the same.

How often do you hear people complain or worry about their battery level? All the time. How often do you hear people complain that their 5-inch screen isn't 4K Ultra Retina RGBA OLED goodness? The race to thinnest form factor has always confused me; what is really the use of having a razor in your pocket, rather than twice the mAh? The race to thinnest bezel has always confused me, too; what is really the use of a device you can't hardly touch without simultaneously operating it?

I think it would be very, very welcome to have a device that did the "standard PDA thing" extremely well (unlike modern smartphone OS'es), had "just enough" features, and oodles of battery life. Just the fact that there are modern crowd-funded initiatives to make "something like the Psion Series 5" shows that there is indeed interest (if not enough to wake up Samsung and its ilk).