666€ for "Pandora Phone" GTA04

[rohezal]

It the same hardware spec,


just a phone not a laptop. No gaming controlls but 3.5G and GPS. Looks like the price for the component parts is quite similar to the pandora price.


http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04

 

[kingoddball]

OpenMoko - Been awhile since they announced that.


VERY expensive for an A8 phone. Pandora phone = SKYPE!

 

[infinity]

The new one has the DM3730 SoC that the 1ghz Pandora uses.


Looks nice but it is to expensive for a phone.

 

[hns]

Looks nice but it is to expensive for a phone.

There are cheap phones and open phones...

 

[acid]

There's already a Pandora phone. It's the Nokia N900.

 

[klapse]

Unfortunately, the N900 is not fully open source. This has complex reasons (legal, marketing, product differentiation). An OpenMoko phone is a heroically open device and I would buy one if I could. Let's wish them luck in their endeavor.

 

[acid]

Unfortunately, the N900 is not fully open source. This has complex reasons (legal, marketing, product differentiation). An OpenMoko phone is a heroically open device and I would buy one if I could. Let's wish them luck in their endeavor.

Still, considering the fact that it's "open enough", the hardware, and the fact that you can buy one dirt cheap nowadays, I feel it's a better deal, no?

 

[kingoddball]

The N900 is BRILLIANT!


Can not be beaten. Mine is in my draw. Only because I don't have time to enjoy the Linux hack fest of daily N900 use!


Best phone/computer I've used. Just many software crashes. If you can get it cheap enough, do it. Mine is stabile ad happily runs at 1.1Ghz.


It's a computer with a phone sticky taped to it!

 

[Tensuke]

^nothing else needs be said, I think. :wub:

 

[hns]

I think there are similar arguments around the OpenPandora about much more powerful (but non-open) hardware available at much less money. ED has written down some good points:


http://boards.openpa...ndora-outdated/


The only point I would not agree with him is: "It [Dual Core] sure makes sense for a smartphone". Phone function is done by the modem module and that has its own CPU (sometimes even more than one) anyways.