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Just want to say: maybe they didn't know about your thing. A good solution it seems to me is for them to buy the rights to the design (particularly since it seems you have the world's best nubs). Certainly worth exploring an amicable settlement before you get all lawyered up.

I expect the Pandora to be reasonably successful. Reading between the lines, it sounds as though something in the neighborhood of 10,000 units @$350ea will put OP soundly in the black. And I'd be surprised if they don't sell 30,000 (4,000 people bought them just based on the design, for crying...

I thought I mentioned the shoulder holster when I started this. I'd seriously consider getting one, but as someone pointed out, it goes over your right shoulder and isn't reversible. Being right-handed, I would want a holster over my left shoulder. I emailed thinkgeek about this, and didn't get...

I actually have a gadget bag. Put it more that I want an option for when I don't want to carry a bag. No-one has any thoughts on the content. I *am* awesome and have put together a superb kit, but there have to be some other interesting options. What will *your* kit consist of, if different...

Damnit, this the second thing I've posted here and had to write again because the system just ate the post without warning. That looks great, but I live in San Diego, and that would be *way* too warm for wearing everywhere for at least half the year. I should also mention I'm looking for...

My main motivation for buying the Pandora, pathetic geek that I am, is so I can always have a decent computer on me. More than just the Pandora, my plans are to put together a kit I can carry on me that hits a highly effective amount-of-crap-to-utility point. :ph34r: I don't want a shoulder...

Bump. Sorry if I caused you to revisit with no news, but I'm hoping we'll get another review with a bit of luck.

There is a concept in economics of "normal profit" -- the least profit for someone to want to do something. I think the folks complaining about WiFi not working yet etc are missing the "bunch of hackers" perspective, and that they're not even close to a normal profit here. This was just a bunch...

I don't suppose you'd share whether that is marginal or average cost (meaning: are you including development costs, or just the cost of making and shipping the individual unit?)

Two things to note, regarding my Palm Centro: 1. With a $30 piece of software, I can tether it with either Bluetooth or by wire. My Sprint plan doesn't include tethering, but this piece of software (USB Modem) makes it look to Sprint like I'm just using an app on my phone. 2. Tethering by wire...

Can't find a discussion of this, so forgive if I missed it. Assume the factory ships on Friday. Cases ought to arrive by Wednesday. I believe all other ducks are in a row, right? So give the assemblers a couple of days to get things rolling. So first Pandoras start shipping Friday next week...

My two year timeframe is based on that being about when I'd expect Pandora 2 will be in the offing. And there's a pretty good chance an Android device or something like that will come out with decent controls in that time frame.

I'm expecting to get two years out of my Pandora. Three if I'm lucky. But I expect there's a good chance a better replacement will come out in about two years, at which point it will be worth little. I'm spreading $300 over two years. If the choice is get the device now in a fully functional...

It's back. Nothing obviously different.

I started this discussion because prima facie there is no reason the mp case batch can't be in any color at all. They all have to be the same color, sure. And there will be opinions all over the shop for what individuals would prefer, but I just wonder: is it actual trivial to choose a different...

I used to think that, but I was reading just today that this is wrong. Turns out we can perceive higher frame rates. Not only that, but video has motion blur while computer-generated video doesn't, so the differences between frames are more noticeable.

Since I understand we haven't actually ordered the cases yet, I presume it would be trivial to have them use any color of plastic whatever. For my part, I would like something more interesting than black. Fire-engine red, perhaps? British racing green? Sky blue? I think it would also add to...

It occurs to me that if we could organize for the Pandora to run at a reduced rate when the lid is closed, and it could run Gizmo or Skype, then we could plug a wireless broadband modem into it and use Google Voice (or whatever's your poison) to replace a phone. You'd have to tape the modem to...

Sorry, not trying to pick a fight; that just seemed a funny definition of emulation.

Really? One could happily distinguish virtualization (same processor, trapping calls to the virtualized system) from emulation (interpreting or JITing the original code so you can rewrite what it's calling to on the fly) I think. But requiring that either run at exactly the same speed as the...