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Lilygo T-Deck: $50 BlackBerry-like device with WiFi, Bluetooth and LoRa
- Graziano_M 3y agoThat "BlackBerry-like keyboard" is actually a keyboard salvaged from a BlackBerry Bold... the best phone keyboard to have ever existed.
- FullyFunctional 3y ago[citation needed] There are a metric tons of devices using this keyboard (I have some) and they are all sourcing from 3rd party that made spare parts for BB repairs. So while it’s indistinguishable from the original, it’s not “salvaged”.
- andrewstuart 3y agoI wonder how practical it would have been to fit it and ship it in a blackberry case. Also I wonder how it would impact sales if it shipped in a BB case as a finished consumer device.
- mcsniff 3y agoRunning Meshtastic with a nice UI on this would be awesome for off the grid communications.
- FullyFunctional 3y agoWhen I (loudly) wished for a PocketCHIP successor, I wasn’t hoping for a processor downgrade. If this was something Linux based it would have been dramatically more interesting. ADD: I would also welcome a display-free version that could be used as a hackable BLE keyboard.
- saargrin 3y agowhy would they sell it without the case though ? :( sad!