My little Pandora review

[Dead1nside]

It prevents the rather powerful spring-loaded hinge from flying open and smacking the lid on the desk

Hadn't thought about that. Bit annoying that it'll then prevent you from moving it to 180, if you wanted to (unless you take it off).


It's perhaps a small thing, but something which I think will be very noticeable in daily use, and hinders its uses as multi-purpose device. For example, I wanted to use it for ebook reading and annotating, which I'm not going to do flat on a table. Or watching a movie, as another example.


However, it seems there were legitimate (stupid patents again) issues with the hinge. I did go a long, long time without realising that you could only really lock it at 180.

 

[craigix]

You can put something in the hinge area to make it very very stiff to move if you want it to lock at any angle... some units are like that anyway for reasons I'm not sure of, probably paint thickness.

 

[mvickers03]

You can put something in the hinge area to make it very very stiff to move if you want it to lock at any angle... some units are like that anyway for reasons I'm not sure of, probably paint thickness.

My Pandora is happy from say 50-120 before springing to 180. I mostly use it on my back on the sofa or in bed, so it's usually at 180.


I'm sure if Dunny is dev'ing or working on a desk as seen in picture I can see him wanting a different angle.


I also use it as a card reader sometimes, it sits at 90 and is fine, you have to steady it with the hand if using a stylus though.

 

[Wrath Of Khan]

yeah i prefer it at 180 its comfortable.My hinge is quite stiff anyhow so it stays in various positions.

 

[ibisum]

My only issue with the hinge locking at 180 is that it does, indeed, start to wobble a little bit over time, and eventually this gets quite annoying, especially after you get some resonance going between the end of the screen, the buttons being mashed, and the little shaky wobble in the hinge...

 

[Esn]

I downloaded a few PND files (which is more up to date? the archive at Openhandhelds, or the Pandora App-Store?)

Sometimes neither. The wiki is generally the most up-to-date.


http://pandorawiki.org/Software_projects


http://pandorawiki.org/Games


http://pandorawiki.org/Emulator_list

 

[chosen]

If shift drag is move window, is it still possible to do shift drag operations such as selecting multiple files in a file manager and dragging them to another window?