Kinda looks like a blackberry.
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Oh, new pocket operator just dropped!

Slap it in a Cybiko case and take my money!
Pretty cool, but I'd just chop off the bottom half and use anything else as an input device.
It's a nice one.
I have a Pocket Chip somewhere standing abandoned. It was sad to see them go out.
Currently, my preferred kit originates from drone ground stations:
- a widely supported (e.g. Waveshare or SpotPear or even official Raspberry Pi) screen with a Pi4 on the back, video via flat cable or short HDMI jumper, touch can be arranged via USB or I2C
- if there needs to be a keyboard, I use an onscreen keyboard (benefit: as many languages as you can speak)
- for radio comms, a ridiculously good USB WiFi card (criteria of good: can enter monitor / inject mode, can raise output power beyond 100 mW)
- if that falls short, an RF amplifier (which means the output power can be raised to 10 watts and is blatantly illegal)
- if that falls short, a directional antenna (which means that radiated power is focused into a narrow beam)
The downsides:
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price: Pi4: 38 €, screen 65 €, WiFi 50 €, amplifier (if needed) 40 €, 5 amp USB battery bank 10 €, a separate battery bank for the amp, cells for the banks 2 € each, microSD card, antenna... the total aproaches 250 euros or even 300 if you have high standards
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weight and clumsiness: loose wires waiting to get pulled out, the kit weighs half a kilo, maybe more, you better buy an instrument case to house it
But you can beam video across a bay or between mountains, just don't get caught doing it. :) But not across a forest on flat ground.
Neato. Hope they don't make it stupidly expensive
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