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I have a Gemini. The keyboard - you know, the main selling point - as often as not just goes 'thud' when you try to press a key rather than depressing and registering. The software was abandoned in a half-assed state after one revision. They strung me along for a good 6 months on shipping the USB-C hub and case post-Gemini delivery until I finally told them I was willing to give up on one of the two if they'd just send the other, at which point they magically and suddenly had both and shipped both. The USB-C dock-hub arrived non-functional and with something rattling around inside. It was some cheap AliExpress-grade crap anyway, so I dumped it, but those were early days for USB-C docks so I didn't know at the time. I declined to invest in a camera. I used it to edit a CV once on a plane to London. I did get the job. I guess that was worth the price of admission. It's no Psion, though!


I still have my Gemini and use it regularly. Its keyboard is not merely fine but as good as money can buy from any vendor in the 21st century.

This, for example, was entirely written on my Gemini:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/rust_kernel_pull_requ...

My Planet hub is in frequent use and, for example, was used in the creation of all 3 of these articles:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/10/thinkpad_x1c_g10_linu...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/21/lenovo_thinkpad_x13s_...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/23/lenovo_thinkpad_z13/

None would have happened without it, in fact.


When I wrote to Planet complaining that my keys so frequently rotated in their sockets that they would often entirely fail to depress, their response was that I should wiggle them a bit.

I'm glad you like yours. I don't. Disappointment from delayed beginning to ignominious end.


I do wonder at such wildly divergent experiences.

It was a fairly small production run, I am reasonably confident, so it seems very odd that some units should be well made with no major flaws, and others apparently awfully shoddy.

Ah well. Sorry you had a bad time. I love mine and am considering buying a 2nd to try Sailfish on, and maybe a spare, too.




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