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if you're one of those people who is just totally sick of this trend of having bezel-less displays with big
notches cut out the top of them then why not go the absolute opposite direction
and get a flip phone again this is the cosmo communicator by a company called
planet computers and it is frankly an absolute brick but hear me out you've
got dual displays one on the outside and another one on the inside accompanied by
a full qwerty keyboard with actual
keys typing like this is a little difficult for my hands to
reach the middle but it is doable but if you set it down on a table
and if you use just one finger on each end you can actually get pretty good
and we're way beyond phone territory and getting closer into laptop category so
the difference between the gemini and the communicator which is the upcoming
one is this outer screen so what you've got here is your standard Android fare
when it comes to notifications it's an OLED screen notifications come by in
either portrait or landscape mode it does rotate unfortunately this is just a
demo so it's not responsive to me and i can't actually interact with it but you can see it's full color maybe it's a
battery drain but you do have a 420 milliamp hour battery on this puppy
which i would expect at about 300 grams i would hope it has good battery life
opening it up you do have a six inch display which is i guess always going to
be in landscape mode it has a camera that's kind of cut out you can't really
call that one of those cutaway hole punch cameras because it is
in the bezel and these bezels are pretty big and i don't know if you can have a
determination on this but to me it kind of looks like the screen isn't exactly center it kind of looks like it's uh
maybe closer to this side than that side which kind of irks me but this is really
interesting to me because on the one hand you've got full mobile phones very
small phones like my pixel 3 and then on the other hand you've got workstations
somewhere in the middle this year we're going to be seeing these snapdragon equipped lte laptops that run Windows
and now you've got just closer to the phone end of the spectrum things like
this where i can i can plop this down on a table when i'm on the train and
have a full keyboard experience another cool thing about it in close mode is
that you do have your fingerprint sensor here which you unlock like this but it
actually doesn't matter which orientation you use it because each one
of these is a speaker and microphone combined so you can answer it in any
orientation you want once it's open your speakers are on the sides and they are
stereo speakers something that's really interesting about this phone is that it has not one but two usbc ports so what
you can do is maybe be charging your phone and using a usbc mouse at the same
time or even having a display out uh using HDMI via usbc spec wise we're
looking at six gigabytes of RAM and a mediatek p70 processor which is an eight
core processor at two gigahertz each per core which is about a 50 faster than the
old gemini model from last year which had 10 cores but some of them were a lot
slower storage wise this is a 128 Gigabyte device but it does have
expandable storage via microsd card so if you're looking for a full flip phone
that has a complete keyboard that actually is backlit and runs Android 9
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