I HAVE A PANDORA!!!! ITS SURREAL - Now whats the coolest thing I can do with it???

[stuart]

I got VERY excited about the Pandora back in 2010 - then again in 2011 when I thought I was getting one, then not so much in 2012, in fact I'd lost a lot of enthusiasm and posted here asking opinions on weather it was still worth having.

Well FINALLY thanks to the donations to the preorder fund (thanks guys) I have a Pandora. I'm like a kid at christmas. Seriously, the only new gadgets I've got in the last few years have been iPhone / iOS toys - and thats not like having a new gadget, just a lighter faster version of the one you already had. This REALLY takes me back to when computers were fun, I don't know what it is about the Pandora - it reminds me of retro gadgets while being a pretty capable computer.... and I've already loaded scummvm with all my fave adventure games.

FINALLY I can stop talking on these forums about not having one and what happened and start talking about the machine itself!

Anyway - I'll calm down - Any tips on cool stuff I can do welcome.

Is the shipped OS the best one to have or is there an upgrade - I have noticed some glitches but nothing show stopping.

Woooooooo! I'm going to be worse than when I got an iPhone for the first time, but at least I wont look like everyone else also swiping at their iPhones - and the battery will last longer.

 

[moxie]

Welcome to the cult

 

[EssoAir]

Congrats man! Id install some office software and give the keyboard for a real spin.

 

[stuart]

At this point I can type a LOT faster on my iPhone than I can on the pandora - I think I'll get used to it though. Can you use a real mouse?

 

[ekianjo]

Anyway - I'll calm down - Any tips on cool stuff I can do welcome.

Check out the recommended applications to install on Pandora on Pandoralive:

http://pandoralive.info/?page_id=9

 

[TrashyMG]

Can you use a real mouse?

Yes, but you will either need to buy a USB 2.0 Hub to allow USB 1.0 devices to work properly or get an adapter for the smaller OTG USB port to the larger USB port..


The full sized USB port is USB 2.0 only and most mouse / keyboards are USB 1.0. 

 

[stuart]

Will a BT mouse work?

 

[TrashyMG]

^Some people say it does, but I have no experience with them.

 

[Grench]

Will a BT mouse work?

My bluetooth MoGo does. Of course being a PCMCIA slot-charging device, the Pandora cannot charge it.

 

[TrashyMG]

Forgot I had my IControlPad (Bluetooth controller) with me.. it does seem to work quite well in mouse mode.

 

[Ian J]

Can you use a real mouse?

You can, I use a Logitech V450 wireless mouse via a mini USB hub.

Something similar to this:

 

[stuart]

Cool

 

[eazrael]

You got a pandora from the donator's fund and your money back from Craig via Google Wallet?

 

[stuart]

You got a pandora from the donator's fund and your money back from Craig via Google Wallet?

You got a pandora from the donator's fund and your money back from Craig via Google Wallet?

Not got the money cleared from Google yet but when I do its being donated back into the fund.

This just meant I could afford to get one now without having to wait for any money from a refund to clear. I know the timing looks suspect

Ok - the CPU speed thing - in settings the CPU is set to 600, and the slider goes to 800... I thought it was a 1ghz machine - also - is it safe to put the slider up to 800?

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

I have the Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 and it works just fine.

 

[commander-beef]

Will a BT mouse work?

My bluetooth MoGo does. Of course being a PCMCIA slot-charging device, the Pandora cannot charge it.

it works. Im using BT mouse with OP some times.

 

[MrBazil2k]

Welcome aboard ! =D

EDIT : I recommend you to have a look at the repo for the "most downloaded section" ^^

http://repo.openpandora.org/

 

[slaeshjag]

Ok - the CPU speed thing - in settings the CPU is set to 600, and the slider goes to 800... I thought it was a 1ghz machine - also - is it safe to put the slider up to 800?

If it's a 1GHz pandora, you can change the settings to set maximum CPU clock to 1+ GHz, and set default clock speed to 1 GHz.

 

[TrashyMG]

You can check if it's a 1ghz or not by the system clock speed..


cat /proc/pandora/sys_mhz_max

If you run the above command in a terminal window. If it returns 400 it's a 1Ghz if it's ~332 then it's a rebirth.

a rebirth unit should clock to 900-1Ghz fine if you set the OPP mode to 5.

 

[PokeParadox]

bluetooth mouse works fine.