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Gemini PDA. The return of the telephone with keyboard

Since the first touch phone came out history would decide whether the phones should still have a physical keyboard or not, maybe the company BlackBerry endured longer than Nokia or other leading companies in the mobile phone market during the 80s and much of the 90s by the time the touch phones began to invade the market the above-mentioned companies were left alone in the market with outdated models. The future of handsets with keyboards was coming to an end and would give way to Samsung, Huawei. Let's take a look at the history of the most recent launch of a smartphone that comes with a keyboard. It's the Gemini PDA. Come with me to learn more about this device.

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The Gemini PDA Personal Digital Assistant at first glance looks more like a mini laptop than a smartphone, created by Planet Computers a British company technology fanatic of the last century developed this model in order to give a more retro look incorporating a physical keyboard, also this brand is considered a super phone because its capacity is as powerful as a pc.

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Its physical QWERTY keyboard is not built into the phone itself, it was designed horizontally to give it a laptop look more than a phone. It has a screen with an aspect ratio of 18:9 the net weight of the device is 320 grams.

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In addition, it has several connectors as to enhance more to the device, two USB-C posts where you can connect another keyboard, in addition to an external screen, a desktop mouse, its matrix operating system is Android, but can be installed with ease Dual Boot or Linux, one of its greatest strengths is in its powerful processor Helio X27 MediaTek and a respectable 64 GB of storage and for a fluid speed 4 GBs of RAM, another of the features of this equipment is its Full HD screen.

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From good to first we can say that this phone more than a sophisticated technological device offers to relive the experience of a physical keyboard. I believe that the only way to maintain contact with the physical keyboard is the keyboard of desktop computers and laptops, and yet many companies have launched laser keyboards and touch keyboards which threaten to disappear the physical keyboard of our lives.

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If we make a retrospective of where the keyboard comes from in cell phones, it connects with the immediate past of the keyboard of the desktop computer, and if we analyze where the computer keyboard comes from, it will direct us towards the electric typewriter, so on until we reach the mechanical typewriter, there are really the origins of the physical keyboard and even so the smartphones are totally tactile they still use a keyboard, I believe that this is something that we will never be able to separate ourselves from, from an ordered system where numbers and letters are grouped together, signs with which we communicate from the origins of man.

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Gemini PDA was shown with great pride at CES 2019 where they bet on the resurgence of this technology. It has not been released to the market yet because it is in full campaign for Indiegogo and its price depends on the two models available, one with 4G LTE for $500 and the model with WiFi that can cost $450.

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Hopefully, much of the technology of the past will return, although it was also criticized at the time, it seems that it was closer to people.