Pandora handheld approaches full production next month, never gave up hope

[wraggster]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/01/pandora.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/pandora-handheld-approaches-full-production-next-month-never-ga/)Remember the Pandora? Back when the likes of the PS Vita and the Nintendo 3DS remained conceptual sketches in top secret bunkers, this open-source handheld paired up a clamshell form factor with analogue game controls, a QWERTY keyboard and a dream. It's been a slow-burning dream; last time we heard from the OpenPandora project, it had managed a limited (premium-priced (http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/openpandora-begins-private-sales-fast-track-your-open-source/)) run, with manufacturing hobbled by problems. But, like its namesake, there was always hope and fans of the platform ponied up around half a million euros to bring the four-year-old (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/pandora-prototype-demoed-screen-turns-on/) project back to life. It's now set to go into full production next month with a new manufacturer, but unfortunately the same specs. While the 4.3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen sparkled a few years earlier, it's now being supplanted by what we're getting on our smartphones. However, those tempted by an open source OS, a battery life of over ten hours and a very faithful fanbase, can stake their claim to one at the source below. We've got our fingers crossed for you.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/pandora-handheld-approaches-full-production-next-month-never-ga/

[Fonixx]

I am truly astonished this thing still exists but i guess it will go down in history as someone's undying determination to see a project with absolutely no future or real point in existing anymore, because i mean Xperia Play is in every way better, cheaper, more useable and probably near enough graphically to give it a good fight, plus who's gonna bother to make Homebrew for Pandora?