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mecksg1 said:
Has anybody gotten there pyra voucher by chance. I still haven't gotten mine and I ordered right when pre orders whent on sale Saturday. I know I was in the glitch part of the ordering Buethe site says pyra pre order but no vocher
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I have pre-ordered and paid via bank transfer on the first of May, the money arrived two days later and I got my voucher with a code without problems.
 
mecksg1 said:
Has anybody gotten there pyra voucher by chance. I still haven't gotten mine and I ordered right when pre orders whent on sale Saturday. I know I was in the glitch part of the ordering Buethe site says pyra pre order but no vocher
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It can take some time for the transaction to be processed (though Saturday is a while back). If you are really worried then you can contact EvilDragon.
 
TrashyMG said:
Kiga said:
Are you sure about that? The last update I read (a long time ago), ED was saying that there will be no hardware switch but he will instead wire a led so that you can know if the chip is on.
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I think that is what he means, turning on a GPIO to switch on the cell modem is essentially an electrical switch I suppose.
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From how I understood it, the led was just to control if the modem is active, it wasn't to disable/enable the modem.

Would like @EvilDragon to clarify it.
 
castlefox said:
I read over the tech/info on the Pyra and I was surprised to learn what I learned the Pyra has:

1. 32GB internal storage (Had no idea there was going to be internal storage)
2. All the ports on the back of the Pyra. (Totally assumed there would be like 2 ports back there)
3. MicroSDXC-Card-Slot (I thought the only memory card slots were the SD cards
4. Four shoulder buttons (Totally thought there was only 2 shoulder buttons)

The GPU will not be able to be upgraded right?
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If you do the math on the largest readily available SD and microSD card sizes plus the eMMC, it can, theoretically, internally house 1.23 Terabytes. Qualified the statement because nobody has had a chance to do it yet.

The Pyra has 3 circuit boards, thought it is easiest to consider the motherboard as two.

Lid/Display: This sits in the lid behind the display to handle the display back light and lid LEDs.

Motherboard: Top side has the keyboard contacts, keyboard back lights and charging port and a few misc other stuff.
Motherboard: Bottom side has the SD slots, microSD/Sim dual slot, USB ports, HDMI, headset jack, mobile data/phone module,
processor daughter board connects, etc.

Processor Daughter Board: This has the SoC (CPU + GPU) and RAM.

It's VERY crowded in there.
 
castlefox said:
1. 32GB internal storage (Had no idea there was going to be internal storage)
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That's the eMMC. Where the OS comes preinstalled. It's a chip which is on the CPU board itself if I remember correctly.

castlefox said:
2. All the ports on the back of the Pyra. (Totally assumed there would be like 2 ports back there)
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This community likes lots of ports, specially full sized ones.

castlefox said:
3. MicroSDXC-Card-Slot (I thought the only memory card slots were the SD cards
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This is an alternative to the eMMC, it is also an internal slot under the battery (it's a SIM+microSD combined slot). Could put the OS in there instead of eMMC (in case eMMC breaks or just testing alternative OS).

Supposedly there could be a way to use that micro SD card slot without disabling eMMC, though.

There's also 2 other full sized SD card slots accessible from the outside in the front of the unit (similar to Pandora). This community likes dual full sized SD card slots as well. :)

castlefox said:
4. Four shoulder buttons (Totally thought there was only 2 shoulder buttons)
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Feature added at request and with input from the community.
 
I thought that the eMMC was on the motherboard (with everything else) and not on the CPU/GPU/RAM daughter board...?
 
mecksg1 said:
Has anybody gotten there pyra voucher by chance. I still haven't gotten mine and I ordered right when pre orders whent on sale Saturday. I know I was in the glitch part of the ordering Buethe site says pyra pre order but no vocher
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No need to worry, ED said on twitter that he will create the vouchers in ~20min.
 
Kiga said:
From how I understood it, the led was just to control if the modem is active, it wasn't to disable/enable the modem.

Would like @EvilDragon to clarify it.
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an LED is just an indicator light, it controls nothing, It will be good for knowing if it's enabled or not. However I'm fairly certain it WILL be turned on and off by a software controlled GPIO.
 
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