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I think that the OP team can be compared to Nintendo: Nintendo always made sure to make the most money off the console and not the games (unlike Microsoft and Sony who treat the console as a loss leader). The Nintendo 64 was a flop – for the gamers. For Nintendo it was profitable. Likewise, the...

I just experimented with UDF 2.60. Windows XP SP3 can't read it (but should be able to handle UDF 1.50 and possibly 2.01); Vista likes it. The only problem is, though, that for some reason mounting a UDF-formatted USB mass storage device seems to confuse OS X's USB and block device management...

How about Mac users? I don't want to have to go through a VM in order to access my SD cards. - ext* is not available on the Mac. Yes, there's ext2fuse but the author doesn't recommend using it to mount volumes with write support and I'm not too keen on losing data due to an immature FS driver...

Yeah, I actually only want an external CF case so I can get some kind of use out of the 8G Microdrive I pulled out of an MP3 player. I used it as a system drive for a while (mainly because I could) but it's not that great for that...

You can always go with CompactFlash – or rather Microdrives, which are CF-sized HDDs. Microdrives are what's inside all those small HDD-driven MP3 players. I have no idea if there's a decent USB case for Microdrives but at 1" it would make for relatively tiny storage. I think they make...

A few commercial games do it like this. IIRC, the Neverwinter Nights games are among them. I think it's a great way of managing data files as it not only makes beta testing more comfortable but also allows users to more easily mod the game – and even if you didn't plan on modding, the community...

Going on a bit of a tangent here... Maybe someone could design a standardized accessory case – a plastic shell of certain dimensions, designed so that you can plug it into the AV port (which, to my understanding, can act as a generic extension port) and have it sit at the back of the device...

Jokes aside, that's one of the two options I see: Either a USB modem (I'm going to hot-glue a USB extension cord to it and declare that "building it myself" so my previous point is not invalidated at all) or Bluetooth tethering. Bonus points for making both work seamlessly.

While this is a nifty project, I feel reminded of the orignal N-Gage – you know, the one that inspired the term "sidetalking" to describe the weird way you had to hold it to talk. Ergonomic? Not very. Silly? Yes, Sir. Awesome. As well. BTW, as to SDIO: SDIO WiFi is redundant; the Pandora...

As for what software I'd like... Well, basically everything I use on the desktop. My MBP has a dying screen and it looks like the Pandora will replace it as my portable computer. So my wanted software list includes IDEs, teTeX, the GCC, a JDK if there is one for ARM... And of course games and...

I might go with "portable personal computer (not IBM-compatible)". Or with "small form-factor digital computing appliance". Or perhaps "rapidly field-deployable Unix workstation". If I feel particularly 80-ish it might also be a "battery-backed 32-bit home computer with integrated screen"...

If we just got on with it and switched over to IEC 60906-1 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1) we wouldn't have this issue. But yeah, due to the prevalence of Europlug-based plugs in Europe I'd expect the European charger to use that. Regional chargers might be feasible; if not...

Well, the multiplayer option could also support playing via internet. Pandora + WLAN + AP + internet connection = online play. In that regard, any Linux games with online multiplayer that get ported to the Pandora should be able to keep their multiplayer modes. Bluetooth/ad-hoc WLAN multiplayer...

Tablet mode is extremely unlikely as that would probably drive the price of the device way up. All conceivable ways of creating a tablet device are patented (because, probably, the whole concept of a tablet device is) and the last cost estimate I heard for challenging a patent in court is...