hear me out...
pocket size ssh terminal
⁃ six-inch display
⁃ one week of battery life
⁃ cellular
⁃ wifi
⁃ usb-c display port for keyboard and external display
⁃ operating system has ssh only
⁃ local storage just to keep ssh keys
⁃ minimum ram and cpu just enough for zero-delay ssh
⁃ price below 500 eur
is it achievable?
silverwizard
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random thoughts
in reply to roman • • •ADV cardputer? edit: under £50 with wifi card, BT support, LoRa support available, USB-C interface although battery life isn't very food. Display is barely an inch.
github.com/m5stack/M5Cardputer…
M5Cardputer/examples/Advanced/SSHClient/SSHClient.ino at master · m5stack/M5Cardputer
GitHubroman
in reply to random thoughts • • •Fritz Adalis
in reply to roman • • •Maybe add optional serial, even if extenal/usb.
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in reply to roman • • •Should be foldable with built-in keyboard.
And doable with 200 eur smartphones, so except for the battery life it should be achievable for maybe 100 bucks.
Tinker ☀️
in reply to roman • • •- I think so. The Gemini PDA has a 6 inch display. Runs linux which you can configure to be headless and only have SSH on it. It's wifi and cellular. Not sure on battery life, but its robust. Price is right. USB-C.
It does have its own keyboard on it as well.
www3.planetcom.co.uk/gemini-pd…
Gemini PDA | Planet Computers
Mysiteroman
in reply to Tinker ☀️ • • •Morgan
in reply to roman • • •Saw this thing just this morning and it's on my potential pocket computer list especially due to the LoRa support. Obviously I don't care about the "AI" accelerator but a stripped down RISC-V Linux port with just the console and busybox would be rad.
I am a bit confused about one thing though; it seems you have to have the keyboard attachment to get the LoRa/mesh radio?
cnx-software.com/2026/10/28/li…
LILYGO T-Display K230 RISC-V AI dev kit features AMOLED, LoRa, and keyboard with optional LTE-M/NB-IoT cellular connectivity - CNX Software
Debashis Das (CNX Software - Embedded Systems News)OpenBSD Now!
in reply to Morgan • • •this one is good
Cara
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in reply to roman • • •I kinda feel as if the Danger HipTop (variously rebranded as the T-Mobile Sidekick) at least achieved some of those goals, long ago.
Alas, the OS did not have SSH-only; it was some java morass. Basically Android was the HipTop 2.0 (and got worse and worse, particularly after Alphabet Inc./Google ditched physical keyboards).
Urwumpe
in reply to roman • • •I think the battery life will be mostly limited by supporting WiFi and Cellular, also these will, like USB-C, consume a bit of CPU time in most implementations, so a too small CPU won't work.
Otherwise, no problem, an even lower price should be possible. Not sure if such a minimalist OS exists (Linux might be too good) for a SoC, would need to research it. But you could always take small SoC and all protocols as application level software.
roman
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in reply to roman • • •pine64.org/documentation/Phone… pinephone+keyboard , but even with the extra battery in the keyboard, no where near a week of battery.
Nura (formerly postmarketOS) can be installed with no window manager.
I wanted the pinephone to be this so much, but either I got a bad device or it was a big miss.
Keyboard — PinePhone Accessories
PINE64Mx. Eddie R
in reply to roman • • •Mine wants to be a head-mounted display with a few lines of text, paired with a chord keyboard like the Loop, or maybe just one of those teensy media keyboards, and just enough processor to shell into a grownup computer.
roman
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in reply to roman • • •Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer
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I would use this
Andre
in reply to roman • • •The old GPD Micro comes pretty close and adds a real serial port but misses on battery life.
It would not be hard to build something like that with an ESP32 to get the battery life up excluding the cellular bit.
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in reply to roman • • •something like this, but for ssh terminal zerowriter.ink/pages/zerowrite…
#cyberdeck #solarpunk
Zerowriter Fold — The E-Paper Word Processor for Writers
ZerowriterSean
in reply to roman • • •@prahou e-ink display or no?
I’d use one
roman
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