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Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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887 words · ~4 min read
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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
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notches cut out the top of them then why not go the absolute opposite direction
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and get a flip phone again this is the cosmo communicator by a company called
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planet computers and it is frankly an absolute brick but hear me out you've
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got dual displays one on the outside and another one on the inside accompanied by
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a full qwerty keyboard with actual
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keys typing like this is a little difficult for my hands to
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reach the middle but it is doable but if you set it down on a table
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and if you use just one finger on each end you can actually get pretty good
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and we're way beyond phone territory and getting closer into laptop category so
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the difference between the gemini and the communicator which is the upcoming
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one is this outer screen so what you've got here is your standard Android fare
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when it comes to notifications it's an OLED screen notifications come by in
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either portrait or landscape mode it does rotate unfortunately this is just a
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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
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battery drain but you do have a 420 milliamp hour battery on this puppy
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which i would expect at about 300 grams i would hope it has good battery life
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opening it up you do have a six inch display which is i guess always going to
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be in landscape mode it has a camera that's kind of cut out you can't really
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call that one of those cutaway hole punch cameras because it is
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in the bezel and these bezels are pretty big and i don't know if you can have a
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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
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maybe closer to this side than that side which kind of irks me but this is really
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interesting to me because on the one hand you've got full mobile phones very
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small phones like my pixel 3 and then on the other hand you've got workstations
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somewhere in the middle this year we're going to be seeing these snapdragon equipped lte laptops that run Windows
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and now you've got just closer to the phone end of the spectrum things like
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this where i can i can plop this down on a table when i'm on the train and
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have a full keyboard experience another cool thing about it in close mode is
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that you do have your fingerprint sensor here which you unlock like this but it
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actually doesn't matter which orientation you use it because each one
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of these is a speaker and microphone combined so you can answer it in any
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orientation you want once it's open your speakers are on the sides and they are
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stereo speakers something that's really interesting about this phone is that it has not one but two usbc ports so what
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you can do is maybe be charging your phone and using a usbc mouse at the same
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time or even having a display out uh using HDMI via usbc spec wise we're
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looking at six gigabytes of RAM and a mediatek p70 processor which is an eight
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core processor at two gigahertz each per core which is about a 50 faster than the
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old gemini model from last year which had 10 cores but some of them were a lot
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slower storage wise this is a 128 Gigabyte device but it does have
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expandable storage via microsd card so if you're looking for a full flip phone
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that has a complete keyboard that actually is backlit and runs Android 9
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then the cosmo communicator might be your next phone and of course thank you
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of the past check it out at the link below so thanks for watching guys this
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is just the beginning of our ces 2019 coverage so stay tuned we're here all
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week