Sunday 14 September 2008

Pandora, next generation of handheld?

Hi, quick one...
I have been following this for quite a while now, its a handheld games console called the Pandora.

Find it here http://openpandora.org/
Absolutley amazing specs, completely open source and relatively cheap for such a powerful machine. I suggest hitting http://www.youtube.com/ for videos of what this thing can do.

Pre-ordering starts 30th Sept, with shipping dates in November. There are only 3000 units in the first batch so get going!

In UK money it's near as makes no difference £200, so if you are thinking about getting an EEEpc or an AA1 or whatever, please check this thing out first. I'd even suggest checking it out before considering a low-end, entry level, laptop.

For the geeks amoung us, there is also a "motherboard" type effort that has the same chipset and what-not called the BeagleBoard (go here... http://beagleboard.org/). Cost is $150. So that's about £85 now I guess. I'm not going to check. But if you can imagine, one of these beagleboards, an 8.5" lcd screen, a cheap small usb keyboard, small mouse and a USB dongle and wireless dongle, you can make your own. It'll come to about the same. But you can really geek out and say you built your own, and you'll get that warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Thanks for reading!

No comments: