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I know that it won't come with any media player preinstalled because of patent issues. It could come with a few demo games, but I'm not sure I'd appreciate it, because they would have to be installed on the nand, and it would break the system-on-nand-games-on-sd rule.

It's not sure: the SDHC standard only allows up to 32GB, and it seems the SDXC one can't be read with just a firmware update, but requires a change in the hardware. The fact that it is technically feasible to do an SDHC-like card in sizes up to 2TB, and the existence of lots of devices with...

European royalty tends to have very little power and little privileges as compared to other public figures: all of the actual governing is done by elected bodies (except for the house of lords in UK, I believe); on the plus side they are good for tourism, and that's probably the main reason why...

I plan to use navit for turn-by-turn, unless Traveling Salesman is available and proves itself better (navit is already available for arm, ts is java.) More often, I will probably use them or tangoGPS to show maps, and either myself or my SO doing navigation while the other drives just like we...

I have a SirfStar III based receiver and a MTK logger: the SirfStar III is quite good on points 1-4 and I was pretty statisfied with it, but then I've bought the MTK one and it's even better, expecially on point 2. Around here you can find SirfStar III based receivers around 40 euros, and I...

I'd say that a significant number of second batch pandoras will be sold to friends of first batch owners, and some group of friends already bought more than one. It's not like they have been sent to random points in the population, it's something that spreads more in small clusters by word of...

Does anybody know of a nice origami SD holder with room for at least 4 cards? :D

Another pandora :) It would be nice to have multiplayer via bluetooth, at least for simpler games, since it uses less power than wifi. (Assuming that bt and wifi can be turned off separately, which I'm not sure of, however)

C++ is not hard in itself, is hard to learn if you don't have previous OO programming experience, because just like C it forces you to learn lots of things before you are able to write something useful. Python hides the hard parts for later, so that you can learn by doing from the start.

not sure, but there will be a few apps that support it, e.g. TangoGPS and Navit, and I believe that there could even be a way to load google maps images on TangoGPS, but it would be against their terms of use. I would just use OSM data, since it's also more accurate. Also, I wouldn't use an...

This is true if there is an higher speed model in current production, and even then if you buy the lower speed one you may get unlucky and find one of the bad ones that are actually limited. however, AFAIK there is no higher speed OMAP with the same technology of the one in Pandora currently...

Since there isn't an actual live and out in the wild pandora, the question is quite moot :) unless we count the prototype in the fields around Craigix house: that may count as wild :D Personally I would give it a bit of charge by mid week: draining the battery means a deeper charge, a deeper...

This is not true: there is no fast way to get your money back, but you are still protected by various laws, and even in case of bankrupcy you still have changes to get at least some of your money back. bank transfers are commonly used for payments inside the CE, also because they cost less than...

no, it won't be installed, because of licensing issues, but it will probably be available as a download from day -1 :)

It is also possible to cross-build a customized image of Angstrom using OpenEmbedded, and it's even more fun than gentoo :) actually, x11 manages just "painting on the screen", the nice desktop comes from a window manager / desktop environment, which will probably be matchbox by default (simple...

I've managed to properly reboot many similar situations by ssh-ing in the computer and finding that the system was perfectly working, the only dead thing was the graphical system. The issue is not much bad software design in the end apps but rather bad hacks in the drivers, especially 3d ones...

with windows (XP?) that's probably less performant than 256MB with properly configured linux

the only problem with the usb gadget solution is that requires a computer near pandora, turned on, so it is probably better for developement or software installation than just to use the pandora e.g. to browse the net. I've already bought a linksys usb ethernet adapter, tested it on a...