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You are wrong. It is not «but maybe not at the edges»: Please read ED comments again, and you will see it is not "maybe", it is a fault all Pyras will have. Simply resistive layer is an outdated technology and it needs an extra border around display (i.e. resistive layer needs to be bigger than...

I see no problem with keyboard layout because you can reconfigure it totally by software. Even, if you wish, you can take transparent caps out, place other symbol and put "keycap" again, but I suppose you loose light (or part of it) on that keys, A neutral keymat, with all keys blank could have...

Handy when emulating DS if you use games don't require pressing touch display near borders. I have shown two games that could be unplayable with pen/stylus because they have buttons near borders. Of course, you can play same of therm only with hardware buttons (not using touch screen), but that...

My favorite NDS game is "Advance Wars: Dual Strike". In this game, if you use touch screen, you have same controls in screen border: Among them for example "Menu" and "Swap" small buttons on top border "Yes/Now" options when game ask for confirmation, and when you are using a normal map (not a...

I was thinking people following Pyra was not so troll or troll-enjoying and/or stupid like normal people, but now I know I was wrong :) I talk about a defect on Pyra (a touch system not working near borders) and an option to eliminate that touch system and improve screen image (removing that...

Yes, but not so much reflective and totally without irregular reflections a resistive layer imply. Simply resistive layer add more reflections and, much worse, irregular reflections. Now I have a Nintendo DS on my hand: lower screen (resistive) is worse by that extra reflections and irregular...

And it would be much better without that resistive layer that donwgrades image by lowering contrast/bright and worse by creating a lot of irregular light reflections on that flexible plastic layer that resistive technology uses. So, no being better than Pandora is not the question. The question...

I don't agree. You can use a pen with more precision and possibilities with a digitizer under display like some smartphones and tables do. And the problem is that a resistive layer, even if you don't use it, downgrades image on screen (some bright/contrast is lost, and worst it add irregular...

For me this is another reason to have no touchscreen: if it isn't good enough I won't use it and without it we gain a better display image as we can eliminate flexible plastic layer in resistive screen. That resistive layer gives reflections (and even worse distorted reflected light/images as it...

On-screen keyboards are very creative so it is not my achievement but their :D PD: About that horrible on-screen keyboard I perefer a errata instead of a changed word by "smart" word predictor.

Really it wasn't as there are other options: 1/ IR (infra-red) sensors on borders. My Nook (eink reader) uses this tech and it works perfectly. 2/ Even better: a digitizer under screen, like for example in Galaxy Note smartphines and Surface tablets. I suppose the problem here is price and...

GUI of a desktop environment, or desktop GUI. Obviously that GUI is used with a mouse/etc, underlying SO/etc.

I have just explained to other user: when I said GUI I refer to desktop GUI, a GUI with full windows interface, usually used with a mouse. Post-WIMP GUIs used in modern touch interface smartphones are totally different. PD: I use the term GUI withoutbother addons to refer to desktop (WIMP)...

I think I didn't explain it correctly. When I write GUI I refer to desktop GUI, classical GUI, the GUI invented at Xerox (used in Alto, Smalltalk, etc) and later copied by Apple/MS Windows, i.e. a GUI with REAL windows you can resize/overlap/etc, and other elements. A touch smartphone includes...

1st/ Obviously size (good point it is small, bad point small keyboard and screen), as Pyra is a pocket computer. But you can connect big keyboard/mouse and monitor for use in home when attached, and in this way you can use it like a desktop computer replacement. 2nd/ About performance I don't...

Apple M1 got a fan in Macbook Pro but M1 got NO fan in Macbook Air, so M1 Air is totally silent. On other side Apple doesn't design nor sell hard for other, its chips are designed only for Apple products. And M1 is a chip for notebooks and small desktops, not for hanhelds/pocket computers like...

I love RISC-V, it is a free¹/libre¹ ISA/architecture, but obviously RISC-V is far from ready to be used in a device like Pyra. Even Linux is fresh on it, and there is no RISC-V SOC with GPU and other components a device like Pyra would need. It will take years until RISC-V be an option for Pyra...

I think your and hers is correct acting way. If you have ordered Pyra there is no reason to change it: you will get an enjoy a Pyra with OMPA5, and the day CPU board be on sale you can upgrade it. I see a win-win: you enjoy much earlier and upgrade later (possible before other people get later...

The board can be populated on both sides, and I don't know if there is a limitation the CPU can go on the other side. Other possibility could be to use elevated connectors for this board, so in this way you get gained space between both boards (where you suppose CPU is placed) instead of on...

I know RPi 400 will have great sales because surprising some people see a computer only if they see a keyboard :O If they see a normal RPi, they think it isn't a computer but other thing :D It is the same that expensive Spectrum Next: it is simply a FPGA, and there were better (for example...