The moment you realized just how freakin awesome the Pandora is...

[Binky]

or Lyx...

 

[traylorpark]

Alright, I got a couple...

I was away from home and my Pandora was on it's last bit of battery. Of course I don't travel with the charger with me ... but I was able to find a mini-usb cable that went to a SD card reader. Plugged that in, and sure enough, the red charging light came on! I knew this was possible, but to actually do it, well ... this little thing is crazy versatile!

In addition, switching from playing Street Fighter III at full frame rate to editing my own portraits in Gimp for Baldur's Gate 2, then playing as my new character. Yeah, I can't think of any other device that would let me do all that, while sitting on a train.

 

[Asiyura]

- Amiga 500 full speed in my pocket-

That was why I pre ordered a pandora.

The moment I realized how awesome is pandora is when I actually launched an AGA Amiga game

And when I replayed Castlevania SotN without any problem.

Also when I charged my "smart" phone (it eats battery like pac-man gobbles pills) and even had enough battery on the pandora to play some games.

 

[Oscaruzzo]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

 

[TrashyMG]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

That's a shame.. I've had one by my side everywhere I go for the last 3 2 years.

 

[Stainy]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

That's a shame.. I've had one by my side everywhere I go for the last 3 2 years.

Me too!!!

 

[Asiyura]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

It's hard to discover that something is awesome without using it

 

[traylorpark]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

Awww, poor little guy. Did you find something else? I'm a little curious as to how you lost interest.

 

[PowerGod]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

Then why are you following this forum ?! How can someone, with a Pandora, follow the news about applications, alternative use-cases and ideas, without even have the urge to try them out ?!

Anyway, I find this device awesome at least 1 time a week, one example is that I can find something useful to do with it even now that it has the display dead.

 

[Oscaruzzo]

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

Awww, poor little guy. Did you find something else? I'm a little curious as to how you lost interest.

In 2009 the Pandora was a GREAT device. But when I received it (in 2011) i already had a smartphone that did everything I needed (not gaming), so I tinkered with it for some months and then I lost interest.

Sadly, it never happened for me. It's now gathering dust somewhere since more than two years ago

Then why are you following this forum ?! How can someone, with a Pandora, follow the news about applications, alternative use-cases and ideas, without even have the urge to try them out ?!

Anyway, I find this device awesome at least 1 time a week, one example is that I can find something useful to do with it even now that it has the display dead.

I'm NOT following the forum on a regular basis, just checking (i.e. lurking) from time to time to see if the Pandora community is still alive (and I'm glad to find it is). News about applications games etc were quite slow last time I checked (maybe two years ago). Maybe I could dust it off one of these days just to see how the updated OS is.

 

[TrashyMG]

^ Only a handful of people had Pandoras 2 years ago.. so less people developing software.. Things are going great thanks to recent batch of developers hopping on board.

 

[Sebastian Castro]

Really since I saw a hint of it in the Xfce page in Wikipedia three years ago, but it stood to my expectation, then watching it emulate N64 games at even playable speed (PSX is awesome) then connecting a 500GiB external HD to copy a Playstation disk image or mp3s. Getting my homework in time even being jammed in transit or caught up by something (eg: submission week, all the labs full, team mates panicking over how to get some info or transferring some files, I silently take my Pandora out my pocket and start problem solving *troll face* they go like: “that freaking thing is like a laptop, right?” )  and all this was pre-LibreOffice era. 

Also most important, the community, the releases, updates and ED’s tenacity in the project (for a while I was afraid I was going to be stuck with a device without support <CC LCD cable>)

But most of all when I downloaded MyPaint and discovered that the screen is awesome resistive. (Sadly, either it broke somehow or someone “adjusted” it so that it doesn’t work anymore)

Also when I charged my "smart" phone (it eats battery like pac-man gobbles pills) and even had enough battery on the pandora to play some games.

*lol* epic win  

^ Only a handful of people had Pandoras 2 years ago.. so less people developing software.. Things are going great thanks to recent batch of developers hopping on board.

Only a handful? Hehe, then I'm from a handful of something. There was no way I was going to wait longer having the money. I had a PocketPC back then and it was very exhasperating. 

 

[nijushrestha]

when i first used Pandora i found is awesome you can watch videos too.

 

[Askarus]

I had some spare PSP battery.

As I was in the train and my PSP was low battery I wanted to use the custom battery.

Unfortunately the custom battery was bad and didn't work.

Luckily I had my Pandora with mini USB-cable with me.

Pandora gave me +3hours PSP time.

(Now I don't need to do this any mora as I can play Dissidia 012 on Pandora).

 

[Klumpen]

I think it was the moment I realized, that I do not even need emulators,

because of the huge library of ports for it.

I was playing a lot of froggatto, pewpew2 and lemmings-sdl (please try this!) at this time.

 

[traylorpark]

Here is a bit of fun! I plugged my mouse into the USB, then modeled and rendered an exceptionally basic scene in Blender on the Pandora.

Blender's keys can be remappd to anything. If the UI could be hardware accelerated, I would actually be able to do some real stuff on here.

This scene took 30 mins to render, hahaha

Blennder's UI actually works alright at low resolutions.

 

[PokeParadox]

^ That is incredibly geeky...

I have also charged my phone using the Pandora's USB port and a mini USB... when I was running out of juice killing 4 hours of waiting around in Santiago. Managed to recharge about 40% before my flight.

 

[Asiyura]

The games I always dreamt of playing on pandora are in Beta release thanks to ptitSeb…

I can now officially play Freespace I & II anywhere…  h34r:

F**KING AWESOME  :wub:

 

[Nintendo]

First time I used all the physical controls I felt like the king.

 

[JeanLouSchmidt]

first time : when I plug earphones to listen to my flac collection, now I play all my numeric music on the go and at home with my Pandora.

second time : when OpenBox pnd was realeased, awesome GUI !

And since that so many times !