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I've done a lot of XML for customers, with configuration systems, data migration, file format translations, etc etc, and always find myself wondering why anybody would ever choose it. But I guess the scope of this XML use is kept small so it won't bog down too much. Are there any good...

So can anybody inform me as to why we're using something as ridiculously heavyweight as XML for fundamental tasks?

Why would you want to replace the screen having never seen the Pandora's? The Cowon A3 is also a 4" 800x480 screen, like this and the Nokia tablets. I suspect they're all in the same visual quality range, if not from the same panel supplier. (disclaimer: I have no clue about LCD sourcing nor...

The only reason Halo got so much momentum behind it is that it was the only reasonable FPS on the XBox console at its time. There was a ton of anticipation behind it, since at the time the XBox was being greatly overshadowed by the PS2 and not getting very many decent games. It wasn't great...

If the question involves the use of XML, the answer is automatically "no". :P

N800 is fine on its side, too, as some games on it use portrait mode. Mind you, I do all my web browsing in 800-wide landscape mode, and the resolution works out great.

I'm always leery of ads. Business decisions as to how to implement them ALWAYS end up intrusive, with privacy, usability, and system stability/security issues at stake.

Is color key transparency implemented yet? I was curious as to how you did it (expand the sprite by 1 pixel, keeping alpha at the expanded pixels to 0?), but don't see it in the code at first glance.

MD: You keep saying that Pandora needs to move to x86. You should instead be thinking that more other things need to go cross-platform. That's where the new momentum is anyway.

It'd be cool if somebody could write a little desktop toolbar button that toggles landscape/portrait easily. I presume X11 has this sort of functionality available?

What for? WHAT FOR? Because nobody can agree on a keyboard layout, that's what for! :P

Nothing releasable yet. I'm developing it in tandem with another project that's built on a lot of the same technology. It's still a while away, I just wanted to get a sense for the sorts of directions people wanted before getting too far in.

Also note that if it's a straight port, Ogre is doing a lot of floating point on the CPU as well. Something truly GLES2.0 should run faster. Plus, I don't know what resolution the output in that video is; it's probably more pixels than 800x480.

An actual, real USB host port with standard connector on a handheld for once.

Just SSH into your Pandora from your Mac.

As an N800 owner, I haven't been all that impressed by the speed or usability of it. It has some terrible UI decisions, and most things don't allow font sizes to be adjusted. I look forward to having a more "real" Linux environment. The N810's slide out keyboard also obscures the top...

All punctuation should be on the keyboard first. If there are any leftover Fn/Shift key combos, only then should language-specific characters be on the keyboard. With as few keys as it has, I think it should just be punctuation/symbols, with a compose key for language-specific characters. I...

I want a Linux handheld, plain and simple. I have a Nokia N800, but the whole maemo/Hildon stuff really sucks IMO and it's difficult to just run plain Linux apps on it.