It seems like the whole point is that it's one integrated piece you can slip in a pocket, not a collection of hacker gadgets with separate chargers and USB cables you have to be careful about.
It seems like the whole point is that it's one integrated piece you can slip in a pocket, not a collection of hacker gadgets with separate chargers and USB cables you have to be careful about.
But it's not a single thing if you're carrying around other parts anyhow, and those appear kind of flimsy. And I already have a general purpose computing device with networking capability that goes in my pocket, a smartphone... so why would I want to put it my pocket if it does less?
A built in keyboard could be a failure point, and gamepads are well known to fail. I'd trust five layers of frameworks and thousands of lines of code more than a cheap switch.
If they really wanted maximum reliability, I would prefer they charge the keypad with NFC and talk to it over either BLE or just the NFC itself.