wanksock
Sep 2006
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gona bump this thread, since the device is almost finished.
everything is finalised now, devs are putting the finishing touches to the GUI and the last of the hardware is being checked for bugs before the pre-order starts on the 30th.
after which, 3000 units will be put into production and will ship late november.
a reminder of the specs for those who are interested:
* ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3inch 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
* GUI: gMenu, various X based desktops, Ubuntu etc. or make your own.
personally i cant wait to use some proper music apps on this thing... trackers are all well and good but id rather one of the many fl studio clones. sitting on the train to london with a decent pair of headphones making beats sounds like a dream to me. downloading torrents on the move will be awesome as well as using firefox and GPS. it might even replace my mp3 player as the potential storage is bigger and the sound quality will be far superior than most with its burr brown dac. there are loads of ps1 games id like to play too, having missed the console first time round. we can expect full framerate on all ps1 iso's which is great.
2 things to add for those not familiar with the device:
its not supposed to rival sony or nintendo - its target audience is different.
the first run is only 3000 because thats all they could afford. the second batch will be in 2009 and will be paid for by the money from the first batch.
full specs here
forum here
official site here
whadda ya reckon? 
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