If you don't specifically want the Blackberry keyboard, there's also https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-uconsole

The waiting time is horrendous though. Mine arrived 8 months after I purchased it but beyond that, those are absolutely great. I stopped carrying a laptop in my backpack, just one of those with an additional expansion board and an HDMI port. My work involves a ton of data which I can't fit into memory so in all cases, my computer is just a terminal to a large server somewhere. So Clockwork ticks all the boxes for me. The one thing I wish they had thought about is an easy access to the CM and be able to swap them for different use cases: when I want to preserve battery and speed is not a big deal - cm5. When I want some additional power - pull out the cm4 and toss in a 5 instead.

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tartoran 5 days ago | parent [-]

I wish there was access to swap the batteries without having to unscrew the back plate. I got mine after the long waiting period and was initially excited but eventually it became a dust collector as I don't have a usecase for it. It is also quite heavy to lug around in a pocket or something like that.

	▲	axegon_ 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Tbh I never thought of that but yeah, it would be nice. Hypothetically if you have a 3d printer, you can modify this guy's designs and add a removable battery cover: https://github.com/strtfnst/uConsole-Parts Personally I got the lora-gps-wifi-sdr expansion board and I found that he had a design to cover the otherwise exposed top of the port, I modified it a bit so that I have direct access to the power button(his covers the power indicator, which I hate) and trimmed it off a bit cause it was too bulky for my likings. That said, you have a point. The reason why I've got a rpi4 as opposed to 5 is partially because of the thermals but also partially because of the battery life. You know what, I might actually work on that when I have some time to spare.

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LeoPanthera 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have one of these. It's so pretty. But the keyboard is borderline unusuable. It's a lot smaller than it looks, the keys are tiny, and have no feedback whatsoever. They're just squashy rubber. Like the ZX Spectrum, but a quarter the size.

Awful.

	▲	alias_neo 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I had waited forever for this to stop being a pre-order, like literal years, and by the time I gave up, I'd come to the conclusion that the keyboard layout would just be a nightmare and I wouldn't use it, think I made the right decision, even if I do look at it occasionally and think it looks like a really nice cyberdeck. I've got big hands and I think the allure of pocketable full-keyboard devices is just not for me.

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bullen 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This also supports Radxa CM5 which is twice as powerful/watt as the Raspberry CM5.

Though you'll need USB hub for internet (WiFi/Eth adapter) and audio.

Also shipping takes a few months, which is kinda scary when you don't know the tariffs that far in advance.