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by Jackevansevo 992 days ago
I owned one of these, and decided to omit it from the list (it came before my first Cherry board).

It was a really good board. But I remember it having quite a lot of flex in the plastic. My letters wore off pretty quickly and frustratingly the solar cells eventually died and the thing stopped charging all together.

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At some point, I think they changed the number of rubber feet from 4 to 6 to help with the flexing. It's still too flexy though.

> the solar cells eventually died

Mine stopped charging too but in my case it was because the little rechargeable battery had wore out. There's a battery tray on the back that you slide out and replace it and it's been working ever since for me. If the solar panels themselves eventually die, then maybe that's why there aren't more of these on the market.