Pandora open-source portable game system gives pants tingles

They need to replace the second Y key with a Z key, I would have thought this would have been fixed in beta.

Look cool if real. I purchased a GP32 years ago, to play rom games. A cool little hand held it was too.

Would Pandora give Nintendo more cause to push out a new DS? Who knows, but the plot thickens like gravy.

i love this system. been following it for awhile as i do with alot of small underground handhelds (zodiac, JXD301, GP2X, ect.)
and this one by far takes the cake!

heres a dev board running finalburnalpha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hjDLMBaf8

heres a dev board running mplayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9RAPNa-55k

Why does it have a keyboard? Since the system has a touch screen, I'd rather see 6 face buttons and a minimalist yet beautiful GUI, much like the Eee PC.

I doubt this will push Nintendo to release the next DS; only Sony has the power to do that.

Umm...

hehe.. great... b ut it doesn't look really mobile.. I coulldn't imagine myself walking with this down the streat :D

@welkstar: so that's why it rocks so much.

I'm totally getting one of these.

I've been waiting... 6 or so months for Openmoko to be released in a stable form? This looks interesting, but open-source consoles/platforms that are already flooded by markets of proprietary hardware just seem to do better. Granted, I haven't used an openmoko yet, so I could just be waiting for the stable release for nothing :P

Why does this feel like a really late April fool's joke?

I know those are just concept mockups and it's not from a big name company, but it seems... bleh

Using a touch screen in that configuration would be annoying as hell. Holding it in book form would require crossing your input hand over the one supporting the system and in any configuration you'd be putting pressure against the hinge when you press on it, which I assume would lead to it snapping back like the DS hinge does. Not that it would break it, it'd just be a complete pain in the ass to use. That's something Nintendo got COMPLETELY right by having two screens and only having the lower one be touch-sensitive so that you're supporting the part you have to press down on, even though it isn't always the most ergonomic design.

If that's their final design I say put that shit back in the oven, because it's only half-baked. The specs look good though.

It looks fugly enough to be fake.

Duuhhh! yeah! right! like the PC ,DS ,Mac or any Linux box, purely devoted to piracy, subtle code in the OS prevents any possibility of Indi code or open source ports running on it at all....NOT! :-p

We should be thankful to the innovations brought by technology..because, now we already have portable devices such as video games, cellphones, laptop computers and a lot to mention.Portable radio also belongs to the list. Slacker Radio is actually quite the thing. Slacker radio may well outpace Sirius for ad-free radio that leaves their local based counterparts in the dust, partially because of ease of use, convenience, partially because unlike satellite it's free and also because Slacker isn't staring down the barrel of possible bankruptcy. You won't need installment loans to get this ad free radio, its broadcast for free over the internet. All you need to do is register for free with an email address, and you're good to go – which you can also do with its counterpart Pandora. No ads, no self important and really annoying deejays, and you pick the play list. Who would stick to normal radio when you could get <a rev="vote for" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/18/slacker-radio-amps-competition-online-streaming/">Slacker Radio</a>?