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I want to point out that if (or when) there are any good game releases for the device, you can expect that some people will plug in their Pyra and play on it for a few hours straight, so it's best not to be too optimistic about usage patterns :) I appreciate the updates, they're very helpful.

It's possible, but now the code that loads the executable has to understand the format that you're no longer mounting, which means that you have to write that part as well. I get the impression that outside of compatibility with formats you don't control (as with wine), it's probably not worth...

Regarding battery life, I would guess that performance per Watt is the most important metric to focus on when evaluating SoCs. However, based on what I know as a systems programmer, I'd say that the performance side of things is hard to measure for general scenarios like this. It's easier if you...

I think it's also good that Pyra doesn't really conflict with any existing names in current use. The company that made Blogger was called Pyra, apparently, before they were bought out by Google, but I doubt that matters now that they no longer exist, and considering that it was a company name...

I guess these new nubs are based on the Hall effect?

I considered this, but I emailed about it and they said that I needed to have an address in the UK. Do you have an address in the UK, or did you find some way around that?

I asked for a refund in November of last year. I don't think most people who ask for them would bother to also start a thread about it.

You would not be selling 1GHz units right now if those last thousand preorderers were not trusting you and waiting for years for their orders to be fulfilled. Dumping 256MB units on those people while you sell everyone else 512MB units would be such a betrayal of that trust. They paid that...

Pro tip: before uploading pictures, you can open them all up in gthumb (GNOME photo viewing/touchup application), select all, hit the batch tools button, and pick the "Rotate Physically". It will look at all of the EXIF tags in the images and then rewrite the actual JPEG data in the right...

I don't want it to seem like I'm advertising here, so I won't name names: the company I use to convert USD to CAD charges about 1.3% compared to the mid-market rate, in my experience with them. There are no other charges, including for the transfer, and the Canadian end gets the money about a...

Android actually has an "NDK" that lets developers port and deploy native apps. It's how all the existing FOSS games would get ported, and it's how Angry Birds works, for example. This is also possible on WebOS, which is why I mentioned both of those platforms in the first place. However...

Actually, game engines do support OpenGL ES, see for example ioQuake3, and OGRE. Any popular engine will have been ported to Android, iOS, Maemo, or WebOS, which all only support OpenGL ES. Any that haven't been ported yet should be portable with a manageable amount of effort. 10% is an...

I was kind of misleading, but really what I'm trying to say is that it's not just the DRM and userspace components of a driver that are missing if one wants non-ES support. The main reason the ES spec exists is to free hardware vendors from implementing a bunch of miscellaneous features that...

Mesa is a software OpenGL implementation, so it actually doesn't need driver support other than for rendering the final frames. You can use it right now if you want.

I think those prices are way too expensive. It's cheaper than that to get devices that have better specs and are mobile phones, and you'll have a hard time convincing most people to choose a Pandora instead of a modern smartphone, including me (I would also have a hard time explaining such a...

I don't know why you would want to do this? EvilDragon has said that currently waiting first batch preorders would get the DM3730 as well if they decided to go with that.

It's more accurate to think of the Pandora as years old, because the design is years old, whether it was shipped at that time or not. If upgrading the SoC is something they can do "on the way" to starting production in Germany, then why should the team deliberately cripple all of the future...

Actually, people buy 16:9 films because the original theatre releases are 16:9. The 4:3 releases have the sides cut off in order to fit into a 4:3 aspect ratio. Some people prefer to see the entire film, not just the stuff that fits into the 4:3 box, and thus prefer the 16:9 version. Now that...

I doubt Tegra is better in this regard. NVidia is the most closed of the desktop GPU vendors, and I may have heard similar things about Tegra. There are several very popular devices on the market that use Linux on OMAP chips, i.e. the BeagleBoard, N900, Motorola Droid, and the Palm Pre. My...

Would a lot of rework be required to make a new rev using the 1271?