Open Pandora an idea who's time has come
I just stumbled across the Open Pandora Project and I am practically drooling over this awesome wonder of a device. It is unfortunate that it is primarily focused on gaming because this little gem is capable of so much more!
This little device fits in your pocket, has blue tooth and 802.11 wireless technologies, a battery life around 10 hours. two SDHC slots, two USB ports, an S-video out etc. In short it is the pocket sized general purpose computer (Super PDA if you will) that I always dreamed of ever since those Casio organizers came out. (I always wanted a Casio organizer that could run DOS or UNIX back in the early 90s)
If the first batch starts shipping and the orders keep coming in for this device I am sure to scrape up the cash to get one. This is the perfect device to run TN and a bunch of other applications that are perfect for a pocket sized device like this.
I still plan to get a nice ARM based netbook as well but the awesome possibilities of this device can not be under-stated. It is easily as powerful (actually a lot more powerful) than an OLPC XO-1. and can use blue tooth keyboards etc. It has the same 256MB ram limitation as the XO-1 but if you know what you are doing you can still cram a crap load into that considering that in the 90s I had useful unix workstations running on much less than that.
I believe that powerful, open and compact general purpose devices like these that are completely open source are the future. versatile mobile computing devices and fresh new ways that we will be looking at mobile networks will change the world.
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