Unfortunately it’s sold out. In fact it was only available for a very small amount of time.
Aww dang. I was holding off on getting a T-Deck until Mestastic 2.6 dropped, and would’ve really preferred an E-Ink version.
How long does it normally take them to restock?
I have absolutely no idea what I’d do with this but I want one.
it is for digital preppers.
IF starlink,3/4/5g,home wifi and everything else is dead…THEN LoRa is your toy.
other than that it might be for the bizarre idea of wizards go hiking or do outside activity. so thats why they produced to few…the story of nerds being outdoors was too unrealistic and prepper incels are just poor.
Disasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.
dont get me wrong, i love lorawan. the device is just super niche and the real life usecase does not really exist or justify creating more ewaste. in desaster regions people are either poor and wont own the device or local phone company can set up mobil towers quickly and it wont matter.
You can also get a cheap truck radio and it will have tremendously more range than meshtastic…most of the time. In a real life death situation, it would also be more reliable.
Don’t get me wrong I love meshtastic, but it’s more for hobbies.
Yeah I was about to ask what these have on normal radio
The issue with Starlink is power consumption. You will have to run your generator frequently to keep the batteries charged up.
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This is my hobby, too!
Can it run Linux?
My limited research says yes.
Meh, I already have an ESP32 meshtastic device and that thing chews through the 3000mah battery I have connected. I don’t need another power hungry ESP32.
ESP32 can be extremely power efficient but it is a lot of work to throttle them down and get the various sleep modes working right
This is cool, but how much was it?
From TFA:
$92.64 for the A7682E 4G-capable version and $81.79 for the PCM5102A version
Oh, that’s quite cheap! I was afraid it was going to be one of those “cool indie tech” products that costs hundreds of dollars and makes no sense for the consumer except as a cool gimmick. If they can make them a bit cheaper through mass production, this might actually be an alternative.
Dude that is so sick…
Someone please make this into a functioning phone…
Minimal has something similar, but it’s unfortunately huge.
I like that it runs Android, I wish it was the size of this LILYGO device.
Mudita also has something similar but it’s $335.
Given that the Meshtastic team just released a fancy new color UI that they spent about a year on, I’m not sure who this is for, unless someone wants to reskin that UI to work on this monochrome display.
ha, of course my t-deck plus just arrived today…
If only they had a basic dim backlight…
