6th November 2025 - Unihertz Titan 2
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I have long wanted a pocket terminal and had a few attempts. There was 
using a touch screen phone, touch screen tablet and the odd Blackberry 
clone of the Beepy. The touch screens are error prone and fairly 
unsatisfactory to use. The Beepy is good but I ended up getting the 
colour Beepy which uses a closed source driver which only works with a 
fairly old PiOs version. It is annoying and makes the device harder to 
deal with. However, it satisfies my pocket terminal desires. 

Well I had been considering the Unihertz Titan range for a while. They 
are large phones with physical keyboards. I just didn't bother going 
further as it involved dealing with well out of date Android versions 
and I was not sure about keyboard quality. Then I saw an advert for a 
crowd source campaign for the Titan 2. Well, of course I fell for it. 

I received the phone 2 days ago and I am impressed. It is like the 
Blackberry Passport. Wide, tall with a 1:1 ratio screen. The keyboard 
has 4 rows of keys. The top being function keys. There is a small 
second screen on the back of the phone which can be used for media 
controls, notification, the time and camera. There are 5 physical 
buttons on the side. Power/finger print reader, volume, screen control 
and a programmable other button. There is a cool function where you 
can use the keyboard as a touch pad. I like using this to scroll 
instead of the screen. There is also a tap to click feature of sorts. 
Otherwise, it is an Android phone. Works well and does all that side 
nicely. My only gripe is that the provided case feels a touch sharp 
edged and I would prefer a softer edge. Minor stuff. There is also a 
concern about updates not coming forth. Nothing new there for most 
mobile manufacturers really.

As a pocket terminal, this works well. I run good old termux and 
mostly just use that to ssh into a cheap VPS I use or SDF's various 
servers. The keyboard has occasional missed key presses but nothing 
too bad. While it would be nice to have control, tab and escape keys, 
this is nothing too terrible. Termux allows for a touch screen row of 
these typically missing keys. I wish I could work out how to get the 
symbol keyboard working. I occasionally miss [ and ~ but this is not 
something I can't work around. I am appreciating the bigger screen 
compared to my Beepy. That and the battery use rate being visible. The 
battery is in the 5000mAh range which is great. I have used this with 
screen going to watch com while working all day and seen around 30% of 
the battery drained. Not bad stuff. 

If you want a pocket terminal which you can ssh into something more 
capable, this is a good option. I look forward to using this while out 
and about.