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I just realised that the first FAQ is "The Pandora is quite expensive, why is this?" and that only 1 of the following 6 lines gives an explanation about that but is just plain marketing s**t. Yes, having a toilet on an intercontinental flight is awesome, but it doesn't justify it's price. Just sayin... Don't know why we suddenly have to use such cheap advertisement, or whatever it is.


Presented with that, and other statements on the side, in all honesty, I would be discouraged from buying a pandora. It just feels like false playing and having to hide "something".
 
I just did but the order page is identical and the URL is the same for UK, USA and rest of world, which kinda makes them redundant unless the plan was to use the re-sellers in various countries.

Well we will have more distributors once I and Ed have finished clearing our preorders, right now all the money has to go to that issue, it's top priority at the moment.
 
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The order page is incorrectly listing the title for the carrying case as "Open Pandora Console."


Good news about the two SD cards + extra battery for the 1GHz price, that does help a bit.


I have some issues with the "Why is Pandora expensive" FAQ answer. Instead of simply focusing on what's so good about it - most of these things don't add that much cost themselves - you'll get way more understanding if you appeal to the fact that this is a small volume device, made by a tiny company, to meet a specialized and unique need.


I wish it could do without all of the "we're better because we don't manufacture in Europe" lines. Does this mean that the PCBs are no longer printed in China? And if so, why not? I never heard about any problems with PCB manufacturing. If you changed companies just out of anti-Chinese sentiments then that'd really be unfortunate.


I also wish there wasn't such a huge bias towards emulating computers, with the screenshots showing only ONE emulated console (PS1) vs six shots of computer emulators (seven if you count SCUMMVM). I get that the keyboard is a selling point to this end but there are lots of good console and handheld emulators and lots of people use them...
 
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Got to the Keyboard and Controls section and IMO "nipple-mouse" is inappropriate for a professional webpage. I don't see the need to call out a specific type of pointing device that they replace either, could just say that they're good for moving the cursor.


"The Pandora also has a USB OTG Mini-AB port too." - "also" and "too" is redundant, pick one (and perhaps add a little bit about what it's useful for)


In the emulator list "GameBoy Pocket/Advance", there's no reason to call out "pocket" as a specific emulation target since it doesn't differ from any other original Gameboy model. Instead it drops Gameboy Color.. may as well list it that way instead (Gameboy Color/Advance), listing GBC implies original GB.


I don't really like how very different consoles from the same developer are lumped together.. and I'd be concerned people won't even know what "SMD / SMS / SGG" means.. (at least don't abbreviate things like Playstation when there's plenty of room for the full name). If you're trying to sort by popularity or something put N64 and PS1 near the top and push Atari Jaguar waaay to the bottom.
 
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Got to the Keyboard and Controls section and IMO "nipple-mouse" is inappropriate for a professional webpage.

True, fixed!

"The Pandora also has a USB OTG Mini-AB port too." - "also" and "too" is redundant, pick one (and perhaps add a little bit about what it's useful for)

Good spot and good point, fixed both. Thanks!

there's no reason to call out "pocket" as a specific emulation target since it doesn't differ from any other original Gameboy model. Instead it drops Gameboy Color.. may as well list it that way instead (Gameboy Color/Advance), listing GBC implies original GB.

I'm not big on anything Gameboy before the Advance, so I messed this one up. Fixed.

I don't really like how very different consoles from the same developer are lumped together.. and I'd be concerned people won't even know what "SMD / SMS / SGG" means.. If you're trying to sort by popularity or something put N64 and PS1 near the top and push Atari Jaguar waaay to the bottom.

Good points. Some are lumped together because the list is, frankly, stupendously long as it is. It's tricky culling it back, as one man's trash is another man's treasure.


For historic reasons, Craig dislikes using the word "Playstation" and I don't blame him!


I could probably drop Apple ][, 64K Mac and Atari Jaguar altogether I suspect.


Great feedback, thanks.
 
Clicking on "Mainland Europe" for ordering gave me this in German:


"We're sorry, but the Web address you entered is no longer available"
 
Section "2 SD slots & real..."


Last sentence:

The Pandora has a USB OTG Mini-AB port too, with the right adaptor you can use this to hook up an assortment of USB devices which require a more power than the full-sized port can deliver.
the 'a' doesn't feel right there or is there something missing?
 
Section "2 SD slots & real..."


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The Pandora has a USB OTG Mini-AB port too, with the right adaptor you can use this to hook up an assortment of USB devices which require a more power than the full-sized port can deliver.
the 'a' doesn't feel right there or is there something missing?

Everyone needs a more power! More powers all 'round!


Good spot, thanks. Fixed!
 
Section "2 SD slots & real..."


Last sentence:

The Pandora has a USB OTG Mini-AB port too, with the right adaptor you can use this to hook up an assortment of USB devices which require a more power than the full-sized port can deliver.
the 'a' doesn't feel right there or is there something missing?
Gramaticly it should be "an"? *scratches head*
 
Section "2 SD slots & real..."


Last sentence:

The Pandora has a USB OTG Mini-AB port too, with the right adaptor you can use this to hook up an assortment of USB devices which require a more power than the full-sized port can deliver.
the 'a' doesn't feel right there or is there something missing?
Gramaticly it should be "an"? *scratches head*
Not that one, the bold one later on ("require a more power"). And "USB" starts with a /j/, which is a semivowel. A user, a university, a USB Mini-AB port.
 
Could someone from the team tell me how long the deal will last? Because i am currently trying to quickly save up as much money as possibly to send in an order, however it may take more than a week or two. And i would hate to miss out on such an amazing deal. :(
 
Clicking on "Mainland Europe" for ordering gave me this in German:


"We're sorry, but the Web address you entered is no longer available"

Hmm, looks like the URL structure on EDs store has changed recently. Odd!


It's gone from "https://www.dragonbo...s-and-upgrades" to ""https://www.dragonbo...id_category=27" which would suggest that he's turned off "pretty URLs" or that something has broken.

I turned them off. I checked various sites about SEO and search ranks and nowadays Google handles things differently than before - friendly URLs can lead to a worse ranking than normal dynamic URLs.
 
I turned them off. I checked various sites about SEO and search ranks and nowadays Google handles things differently than before - friendly URLs can lead to a worse ranking than normal dynamic URLs.

You clearly checked the wrong sites, or gleaned from them some slightly wrong information.


Friendly-URLs have little to no benefit to SEO, and can indeed have drawbacks if they're very poorly implemented. But, by and large, a correctly implemented friendly-URL scheme has very significant benefits to customer experience and customer confidence. Unless your friendly URL scheme is profoundly broken, then I'd wholeheartedly advise that it remain turned on. Not a single one of our case study customers, our work for whom we've won said awards, has an "unfriendly" URL scheme.


Examples of "broken" Friendly-URL schemes would be overly permissive .htaccess rules which omit the terminating $ and thus permit URLs like: http://www.myshop.de/products/myproduct/anyrandomgarbagethatmightaccidentallygetappendedtotheurldhjsdhksahdkjahskjah


From a customer perspective, a URL scheme is broken when deleting the product name from http://www.myshop.de/products/product-name doesn't give you a sane page. This is obviously contrary to user expectations.


One of the key points in Google's own guide is "Improve the structure of your URLs" ( find here: http://static.google...arter-guide.pdf )


And Google also provide a guide prompting people to use "friendly" URLs: http://support.googl...en&answer=76329


Ultimately the watchword here is "Customer". The idea of friendly-URLs is to be friendly to the users of your website, which I appreciate can be problematic in a multi-language website where those URLs might change. But Google also puts forth a solution to this problem: http://googlewebmast...ltilingual.html


Sorry to jump on you with this, but you clearly care enough about SEO and UX to do some research, so I'm working under the assumption that you would like to do things the right way.
 
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Thanks for the links, that really helps :)


So I'm going to re-enable friendly URLs and check that everything is properly implemented :)
 
Thanks for the links, that really helps :)


So I'm going to re-enable friendly URLs and check that everything is properly implemented :)

Regarding broken URLs, I speak from very recent experience when I say: Hilarious things can occur :)


Broken URL structure + broken link = Infinite recursion, rather than 404.


You end up with silly urls like: mysite/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/mypage/


Which go on until something explodes!
 
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