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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
Location: | Japan | Status: | |
| So, I went to a local used electronics store near my house in 2020 Christmas season, and I found a KING JIM Pomera DM5 for a reasonable price.
I took it outside to write some notes on this device.
The DM5 has a microSD slot so you can put in lots of note, then transfer it to your PC. Edited by stingraze 2021-01-09 1:00 AM
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 877 |
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| I read a little about those a while ago. Pretty neat device, too bad they never released them elsewhere. I'd have loved one for my collection. How is the OS on that thing? Anything neat you can do besides writing notes? |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| The keyboard is so-so.
As far as I checked, there is no custom OS you can put on this nice machine. I saw some Russian sites in Google results, but I wasn't brave enough to try it or look at the site.
But, a crazy Japanese guy made this to be a mechanical keyboard machine. (Now, isn't that cool ) (although experimentary )
I don't really know if the guy made it complete, but it seems this guy made DM20 have mechanical keyboard as well.
Part 1: https://keyboard.tokyo/post-677/
Part 2: https://keyboard.tokyo/post-708/
Part 3: https://keyboard.tokyo/post-722/
Part 4: https://keyboard.tokyo/post-740/
Part 5: https://keyboard.tokyo/post-763/
Part 6: https://keyboard.tokyo/post-779/
Part 7 (DM20 ) https://keyboard.tokyo/post-800/
The good thing is this runs on 2 AAA batteries.
Edited by stingraze 2021-01-09 3:54 AM
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 5 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| @stingraze does the DM5 let the user switch the input to all English/Latin characters the way the DM30 does? |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
Location: | Japan | Status: | |
| @lkg
If you mean setting to English input (Eiji-mode), yes. Japanese keyboards usually have this key called "Eiji" which switches to English characters.
Edited by stingraze 2024-02-07 7:25 AM
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 101 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| The physical keyboards may differ; the kickstarter page compares typical English and Japanese keyboard layouts considered by King Jim. On normal computers, I don't have any issues typing with Japanese keyboards.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2132003782/pomera-pocket-typewr...
I don't think the older Pomera devices supported extended ASCII characters (e.g. letters and accents for European languages like Spanish, French, etc. ) I don't know about newer models.
I can't remember if the menus on older Pomera devices are only in Japanese.
These Pomera devices were everywhere in Japan, incredibly popular. |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| @AximUser
I didn't know KINGJIM had a Kickstarter campaign.
Yes, Pomera was really popular, and still is they have the color one that can be modded to put Linux in it. (DM200 )
Japanese site that an user made it into Linux device:
https://qiita.com/alt-core/items/d62c6447c607fbf6e8bfEdited by stingraze 2024-02-08 4:12 AM
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Subscribers Factorite (Junior) Posts: | 38 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| This reminds me a lot of the folding keyboards made for Palm and WM devices. I have one, it's pretty nice. |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| goldfishdev - 2024-02-10 1:35 AM
This reminds me a lot of the folding keyboards made for Palm and WM devices. I have one, it's pretty nice.
Yeah, I used to have one for PDAs too. I only had it, but not necessarily connected and typed with it because I got it from someone. |
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 101 |
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| goldfishdev - 2024-02-09 4:35 PM
This reminds me a lot of the folding keyboards made for Palm and WM devices. I have one, it's pretty nice. I had one also. It was well engineered and fine for typing. However, it was bigger than the Palm and just didn't use it much. Not sure if I still have it or it was another item recycled... |
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 5 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| @stingraze @AximUser thank you both for the info! I went ahead and ordered one--looking forward to trying it out. |
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H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,656 |
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| lkg - 2024-02-14 12:06 PM
@stingraze @AximUser thank you both for the info! I went ahead and ordered one--looking forward to trying it out.
That’s great!
Keep us posted. |
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