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I'm seeing a recurring trend as news threads get old.

This is how I feel too. I know that my order is higher than 1000, so it looks like two months still holds for us late pre-orders.

Green is the best color for the GB Micro imo, my brother used to collect them and he has had one in almost every color they came in, including most of the special editions. On topic, I absolutely love the way the red one looks with the marbling in the case. I know the color discussion is closed...

I'd also be curious about a software progress update. We've heard a lot about the hardware, and I like where it's going, but we have not heard much about the software as of late.

These look fantastic, much more like the metal logo plate than I had thought before!

I don't know about you guys, but I'd pay good money for an Amstrad or TI-99 Pyra.

Would really like to see a C64 beige version, and if we're dreaming here I'd love to a set of keycaps stylized to look like the C64 keyboard too ;) The paint looks great though! I didn't know it would be possible for it to look this much better with a simple coat of paint. And if it makes it...

Such is the beauty of open source software! I'm planning to modify and use their phone dialer and messaging apps for the Pyra when I get mine.

Honestly if the Pyra had internal GPIO that were broken out I would consider trying to implement something like this on my Pyra. The SoC has two Cortex-M4 cores on it right? Might as well put them to use sending notifications to an external display if they're not doing anything...

I think I'd buy this if it were available to be completely honest.

I was definitely sad to read that the project had come to an end. I think this would have been a nearly ideal mobile device for a lot of us, maybe even better than a Pyra in a slab smartphone form factor.

I was on the fence about this too, but I think it should be possible to make this a bit better with some software optimizations and lightening the GUI a bit. 4GB of RAM is actually plenty even among midrange smartphones today, and I would expect that it wouldn't be as much of a problem as you...

I would definitely be interested in exploring this since it is important for using the Pyra as a phone, and could further increase its already incredible battery life. Having used NEON intrinsics in code before I can tell you that being clever about how you use it can provide strong benefits...

I'm all for optimizations and coaxing performance out of low-power hardware, I like this vision for the device. I've actually been theorycrafting a lighter weight GUI for devices like this for some time now, previously for Raspberry Pi-powered hardware but it could certainly work well for this...

The pinephone is pretty cool since it's so cheap, but it looks like the software is pretty lacking at this point. Granted it is early in the development process to be bashing the software, but it doesn't seem great. I do like that it runs postmarketOS though, that is pretty cool.

I think the coating is a good choice. Good to know as well that it won't take much additional time.

I definitely agree that it would be no problem on the Pyra because of the form factor, but I will have to take you on your word with using Android and a virtual keyboard on a resistive display since I have not tried it myself. The last really good resistive display that I used was probably the...

This gives me chills :confused: that's really cool, plus that's a really good IPC count even among modern single-core solutions. Imagine these in a crossbar network-on-chip or with the system bus configured as a ring buffer among all the CPUs with some kind of tagged coherent shared cache. You'd...

While I tend to agree on many of these points I don't think the lithography means as much as you think it means with regards to performance or even performance per watt. I think my favorite computer history example of this is the pentium vs PowerPC battle in the early 2000s. At this time, the...

Hardware guys unite! You've definitely got me beat in the experience department for this, but the best part about being on these forums is that you get to learn from all kinds of people. I've worked primarily with Verilog on the low end and OpenCL on the high end for accelerator design, and I've...