Before buying anything from Planet, see how well they have done at maintaining older devices. Latest release for Gemini PDA is Android 8.1, three years ago.
I'm sure all things are possible. I just felt like it was indicitive of a feeling like they abandoned the device soon after launch to work on the next shiny thing.
Yeah true, I had that with the gdp pocket which I used a lot. I can replace and update the software (Linux in my case), but hardware support was dropped very fast. Since then I am a bit more careful. I like real open projects like the Pandora or the Pyra as hardware support is there for so long (more than a decade for the Pandora) that it keeps going with small replacements. However, those devices are just not as high spec or practical. Open source hardware and software but with great specs and formfactor are far away it seems.
Ah my previous planet device was stolen a few weeks after I received it. I hardly had a chance of using it.
The Slide looks more like a usable phone indeed. I never tried Linux on the previous one (which was my plan); with Linux I guess the 5g doesn't work? Anyone knows if wifi works with Linux on the Gemini or what works and what doesn't? For me to have a usable device, it would need to run Linux for somme things; I'm fine with Android for all phone user, but Linux with Wifi would be needed to do anything useful besides that.
If there would are (closed source) drivers for the 5g chip for Linux then this would be the 3rd new Linux phone on the market?