[macdice]

Surprisingly, they are still taking orders:

https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide

I suppose this means that they still have a firm intention to produce eventually, hopefully even with an updated chipset given that the original parts are lost ("ODM is effectively unwilling to release remaining produced stock and the pre-purchased chipsets"!) Obviously you know all that, fellow backer, but just in case anyone else is interested in this debacle:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...

At this point I think of it as the Delorean of handheld computers...

[isr]

Great, so that means someone will hack an astro slide into a time machine. Ok, I'm game