pandora is gangsta said:
I mean the ipod touch and the psp can pretty much do the same things as the Pandora. Ipod touches have an app store and many of the apps are free, and if it isnt enough you can jailbreak your ipod. Psp's can run home brew as long as it had been hacked.
Keep in mind that the Pandora is 360 bucks with shipping(not including SD card cost). You can get 2 Nintendo dsi. The Pandora may have a lot of power but it looks like it isn't living up to its potential. Does "Pandora panic" look any better graphics to you than "resistance retribution"? its the same thing as the 360 and the ps3. The ps3 is way more powerful but do the graphics look any better?
The ipod touch has an aluminum casing, an accelorometer, and an award winning gui. The pandora's gui looks like its so hard to press on thing with the tiny icons. The pandora had a bigger screen but on the other hand it is about twice the size. The quality of the pandora's screen looks no better than the ipods.
Keep in mind that psp, ds, and ipod go on sale. The pandora does not. And who knows if this is going to be a total flop and developers are going to quit making crap for it. I also don't see the point of open source. Closed source looks better than open source to me. Open source thing look like the quality of the software it worse, but that's just my 2 cents.
I admit the Pandora looks better than other products but I'm not waiting all this time and in the end see that its a total flop and the quality is crap or something like that. You know those cheap Chinese mp4 players that sell on eBay for 10 bucks. They look so good until you buy them. ill just be looking for a good deal on something professional and if the Pandora comes out before i find something i might as well buy it if its good.
Oh ya and username i never said i didnt like the pandora i said the shit is taking too long to fuckin come out.
Dude, I criticize the pandora a shitload but at least come up with more valid points than that.
1. the point of the pandora isn't price- this isn't another mp4 player where price matters since they all have the same featureset. the pandora may be priced high but the majority of buyers ARENT BUYING IT FOR THE PRICE- they're buying it for its featureset, and buying two DSi's isn't equal to buying 1 pandora.
2. youre fucking judging a game, made by a ragtag group of forum members, in their spare time, trying to create a release title for the console WHICH IS NOT RELEASED YET, to a game with a multimillion dollar production team, on an established handheld. smart. also, the ps3 isn't nessecarily totally dominating the 360 in power- like all consoles of previous generations, each have different areas they excel at due to fundamental differences in hardware. but, hey, thanks for judging the catalogue of games on a system thats not released yet.
3. oh my gosh, aluminum casing, acceleratometors, and awards! all things that shouldnt matter. what should matter is the overall product, and while the iphone is pretty good, what would aluminum, acceleromators, or gimicky yet pretty and sleek interfaces due to improve the pandora? also, i have an archos... the screen is on par with an ipod touch (though to be honest ive only seen it a few times, never done a direct comparison) as far as sharpness goes.
4. none of these things stopped the gp2x from flourishing. you also obviously have no real experience in open source, youre probably taking advice from the crysis club at overclocked.net. i mean, firefox sucks compared to IE! we all know that. just like openoffice is positively feature barren compared to microsoft word, the linux kernel is totally in use on way less embedded devices than windows software. and then, of course, you also have closed source ports, new homebrew, and the established open source games database.
5. if you just call every part of it crap why do you say you like it better than the other devices
