Handtops, UMPC - Open Pandora

Open Pandora
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01/02/10 + cobalt

I've been a member of this website forum for a few years, and I've noticed a distinct drop off in activity since Oqo, Flipstart, and Dualcor folded within about a year of each other. On the other hand, there's been an explosion in UMPCs built around the Intel Atom and increasingly around the ARM Cortex A8 CPU.

I was curious how people here felt about the Open Pandora. It was designed around the idea of a handheld gaming system that can play emulated games, by some members of the Wiz community. However, it is also a kind of UMPC, with an interesting design. I'm a pre-orderer; the Pandora is in the final stages of production now, and it will hopefully be released in the next couple months.

Open Pandora Specs:
* ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life

Website:
link

There's a very active forum over there as well.

I'd be interested if the members here know about this device and what reaction it engenders.

Thanks,
c.

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01/04/10 + GreatDane

Thanks for the post.

The drop off in activity is indeed alarming. It is not as though there are no new designs to be had and discussed, although a lot of the new units do seem to be based on UMID designs. I wonder if we have a new powerhouse in the making in the handtop world?

I was not up to speed on the Open Pandora device, so I went and had a look at the site. That is indeed an interesting design. As with so many of the interesting designs, it runs Linux, and for me that is a problem!

It is so frustrating that I cannot use a Linux device for my handtop. Because my work is what has produced the need for a handtop in the first place, and my work is all on the Windows platform, my handtop has to be able to run one of the current Windows Operating Systems, so that I can run the programs when I am not in the office. I can’t even use a Linux handtop and run the programs in an emulator, as they are all client/server database apps. Oh well, one can’t have everything.

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06/10/10 + kele

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