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I love this idea. Is there an existing handheld device that is capable of having an external keyboard and monitor plugged in to it? Or would anyone doing this
by abstractbill 17y ago
I love this idea. Is there an existing handheld device that is capable of having an external keyboard and monitor plugged in to it? Or would anyone doing this need to figure out how to make a good virtual keyboard for programming and a dev environment that will work in something tiny like 480x320 pixels?
- dpifke 17y agoSeems like the keyboard/mouse part of this would be trivial with Android. A little searching, and it looks like doing it over USB was discussed here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=738 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=738 And someone appears to have gotten it working with Bluetooth here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/73eed70fb229d7ae http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_threa... Display... a little harder.
- joe_bleau 17y agoHewlett Packard HP-41C series?
- ulysses 17y agoThe Pandora should be shipping soon, though it may be a bit bigger than what most people would want in a phone. It has (will have?) a usable but small screen and keyboard, but it also has USB and composite and s-video out. http://openpandora.org/ http://openpandora.org/ As far as screen size, a readable 80x25 screen and a regular keyboard so vim works normally is sufficient for on-the-go development. I can get 80x34 tiny, tiny characters on my blackberry now, or half that (or quarter that, depending on how you're counting) with characters that more suit my eyesight. And while developing on it's a non-starter, it's sure come in handy when I've been out and about and needed to fix something (using ssh for access).