Will The Pandora Ever Arrive?

[cd78]

Im starting to doubt it will..i considered ordering one for a split second aaages ago.So glad i didnt!

Dont mean to sound negative, i think it would be amazing if it did ever become a reality.

Is there a confirmed date yet? or is it all still up in the air?

 

[gaterooze]

Yes.

 

[centrlink]

Given the history and perpetual disappointments, were I a betting man, I'd say there's a fair chance it will never see the light of day (and perhaps even less likely is a second batch) - but then again, if your expectations are low, you can only be pleasantly surprised

I'll certainly buy one and sing its virtues if it ever gets born, but I'm certainly not counting on it.

Cheers
Simon

 

[gruso]

Have you guys been following it? It's on the verge of mass production.

 

[cd78]

hey Gruso - is there a estimated date?

I will look to buy one if it does ever become a reality!

 

[gruso]

We've got an unofficial roadmap happening, check the blog (in my sig). The current estimate (which is my estimate, not the official team's) is that we'll see the first real, actual, complete Pandoras in the middle of next month. Craig made an informal comment the other day that suggested the same thing. Long story short, it's looking good.

 

[borgqueenx]

i understand why these threads arrise sometimes. For about half a year now, it constantly sounds like "its almost going to be shipped, in one or 2 months". But then again it will be moved, moved and moved.

I am also going to get timesick. I've had alot of patience, but its coming to an end. I thought 100 untis are going to be tested....but some mould thing is first, that also takes 30 days.

I trust the pandora team, but still im getting tired of all the shit thats coming with the pre-order.

When its over i think i can look back and say, "wow, what an adventure it has been", but i know that i'l never want to have desame adventure again. I wont pre-order again without a certain release date.

 

[cd78]

Its good that it looks like it will finally arrive - i just feel sorry for all the faithful who have pre-ordered this thing and have had to put up with all the disapointment.
Hope all the peeps who pre-ordered and kept the faith will get rewarded somehow..exclusive freebies or the like??

Im still happy with my F200 but im sure IF/WHEN the pandora arrives my head may be turned!

 

[Nation.A.List]

Given the history and perpetual disappointments, were I a betting man, I'd say there's a fair chance it will never see the light of day (and perhaps even less likely is a second batch) - but then again, if your expectations are low, you can only be pleasantly surprised
I'll certainly buy one and sing its virtues if it ever gets born, but I'm certainly not counting on it.
Cheers
Simon

Were you willing to wager any money on that?

 

[renegadechic]

wrong troll is wrong.

why do we get so much of this? i guess the internet is just full of morons

 

[r00tw00t]

Hope all the peeps who pre-ordered and kept the faith will get rewarded somehow..exclusive freebies or the like??

Rewarded somehow? For being a good dog sitting nicely waiting for the biscuit???!!!

Hm, yeah sure a sticker would be nice I guess. As long as it don't say "F-CK YOU BEEN SCAMMED"

 

[dflemstr]

Hope all the peeps who pre-ordered and kept the faith will get rewarded somehow..exclusive freebies or the like??

Rewarded somehow? For being a good dog sitting nicely waiting for the biscuit???!!!

Hm, yeah sure a sticker would be nice I guess. As long as it don't say "F-CK YOU BEEN SCAMMED"

No, for freezing $330 EACH in OpenPandora Ltd's bank accounts for up to 9 months to enable the Pandora devs to complete the device in the first place. Imagine the interest they'd have had to pay if they had taken a bank loan instead of taking preorders...

 

[Sugar_Kane]

Hope all the peeps who pre-ordered and kept the faith will get rewarded somehow..exclusive freebies or the like??

Rewarded somehow? For being a good dog sitting nicely waiting for the biscuit???!!!

Hm, yeah sure a sticker would be nice I guess. As long as it don't say "F-CK YOU BEEN SCAMMED"

I think a small jar of the blood, sweat, and tears that the team poured into it's making, each, which we can sip while we navigate it's menus like cybernetic giraffes

 

[torpor]

I was one of the first pre-order purchasers, and I have been almost going crazy with waiting for the thing, but every day that we get closer I feel a lot better. In the meantime though, I've sure been able to hack on some other interesting things .. Android, iPhone, SmartQ7, Wiz, a Zii will arrive next month, Touchbook too, Beagleboard ..

Well, lets just say that I'm going to be *very* prepared for the Pandora by the time it arrives.

 

[Joshwaan2k]

I'm still extremely excited about the project. I preordered like everyone else.

I hate the delays like the rest of you it does suck, but I smile when I think about how good the software will be from the get go, the GUI is looking great.

I think it's safe to say that the emulators will be there in full force from pretty much day 1. The controls are what I look forward to most . Davec know he's shit when it comes to controls, the controls will kick ass

I mainly looking forward to seeing what Notaz's, Fanaxtics, Exophase,Pickle's,Squidge,Zodttd and many others will produce for this handheld. It’s clear we have some insanely smart people in this community.

I know I sound like a hype machine, but I hate some of the negativeness here and I can fully understand where people are coming from.

Hang in the guys good times ahead are coming. I can’t wait

I got this feeling October is going to be a very interesting month for us all

 

[VRAndy]

Have you guys been following it? It's on the verge of mass production.

Yea, try to keep up! It's been right on the verge of mass production since October!

 

[craigix]

There is no good reason why it would never arrive, mass production is just far far slower than we had been promised, but then again no one foresaw the state of the economy and many companies going bust or scaling back production.

It's coming, once the final cases arrive the first 100 can be sent out.

 

[WizardStan]

Have you guys been following it? It's on the verge of mass production.

Yea, try to keep up! It's been right on the verge of mass production since October!

But this time it's really really on the verge of mass production!!1!!eleventy!

 

[Monk]

There is no good reason why it would never arrive

Emphasis mine.

In September 2008, was there a good reason for Pandora not to arrive with customers by Christmas 2008?

In December 2008, was there a good reason for Pandora not to arrive with customers by April 2009?

In April 2009, was there a good reason for Pandora not to be confident of, say, July 2009?

In... well, you get my drift I think. You don't know what the good reasons for delays are until you've had them. Because good reasons that you know about aren't delays as such I assume - I assume you have them built into the timetable. It's ONLY the unexpected reasons, the unanticipated that hasn't been allowed for, that causes delays.

With the delays approaching their first birthday, it's not unreasonable for some to have fears that the project will flounder in bancruptcy before it sees completion. Personally I could do without the online speculation, but it's pretty tricky to say that it outright cannot happen given that practically everything else that could adversely affect the project has done so.

Personally, I look forward to the first "in real life, the keyboard layout is SO horribly wrong" post

 

[Exophase]

wrong troll is wrong.

why do we get so much of this? i guess the internet is just full of morons

Just because you disagree with someone doesn't make them a troll, nor does it make them a moron. It's understandable that after this amount of delay time people would be skeptical.

My opinion is that the as long as the team doesn't stop working on it and has the resources to continue doing so it will come out eventually. If it gets scraped they're going to be in major financial trouble since they've taken a massive amount of money for it, so there's a major incentive to not let that happen.

Unfortunately, this says nothing for when it actually will be released. I'm still optimistic that they can get it out before October, but you can never really feel totally confident now. I actually made a $20 bet with someone, back in 2007, that Pandora would be released before 2010, and I might lose that bet. I never thought I would have due to delays.

I think that the worst thing for all the people who have preordered is not really a risk that they'll be scammed out of their money (or even forced a refund) but that a 10+ months of delays means 10+ months closer the hardware is to obsoletion, which is not a small amount of time in the world of electronic devices. Hopefully someone (with a lot more resources) hasn't decided to capitalize on this and secretly make a Pandora knock off with similar hardware and preempt the Pandora release.. of course the odds that we still wouldn't know about such a thing are close to zero but you have to wonder. Pandora so far has been if anything an excellent display of just how much demand there is in such a thing, and I'm sure a lot of companies have noticed that.