'Tag5' said:
It's just another pretty handheld device that will be short lived until a better version comes to light. Then it'll be all forgotten.
I suppose thats technology for you - its always evolving in portability. I mean, take a look at size.
PDP11
TRS80
CBM64
Amiga 500
PC
Psion 3MX
Psion 5
Handspring Treo 90
Gameboy
Palm Tungsten
Gameboy Advance SP
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For me, either Pandora or UMID M1 (Probably this)
In the future some cloud device on an iPhone wrist device...(yes please)
The point is all system platforms are different in this case and games/apps take advantage of this. Thats why the arguments against the platform (in this case x86 for UMID M1) are strange. I suppose some people prefer the platform as opposed to what sits on the platform.
I prefer what sits on the platform - and this is why an x86 platform is the killer - as I see it for the Pandora. Why limit yourself to the great Amiga, the Megadrive, the SNES, PSX, ZX Spectrum...PDP etc. The most important platform for games and applications since 1992 has been the x86 PC. (I might accept the PS2 for game here). The Pandora would have been great a few years ago, but now we have the real opportunity of playing every great emulator and (apart from the GPU heany) game for the PC.
The Pandora is seen playing Quake all the time, well the UMID M1 will play Call of Duty (1) and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - as well as Half Life and Deus Ex.
In this case Pandora is not evolving its stagnating - the other devices (similar to UMID M1) are evolving as they offer everything the Pandora can do and more. (Granted no thumbsticks).
The pandora is offering no more than a quicker cpu for the same games and emulators the gp2x has been playing for years. The UMID offers something new and novel - portable Fallout and Baldurs Gate. Portable Age of Empires and Red Alert.
I dare say if Pandora was Atom based with XP Home more people would find it attractive - but then it would have to compete in the real market place - and other companies have beaten them to it by as much as half a year(!)
Why are you so stubborn? We don't want the pandora because it's on arm- we want it because of the benefits arm brings (among other reasons) but you don't understand that so you formulate an argument on incorrect assumptions. Beginner mistake., and that's what makes people angry, especially since youact so righteous about it. The other devices aren't "evolving" and the pandora is "stagnating" as you say. First of all, computers in the formfactor have been around for quite a while but they have been too expensive for the average consumer. So the MID isn't really evolving except for the prices which are receding, but not as fast as arm based devices. Devices like the pandora on the other hand are much more unique and much more development is being done on them. Your argument that the PC has been the most important platform for games is extremely misleading because although they rely on the same architecture, at some points the technology advances to another 'level' that would as well be considered a different console. In case you haven't noticed, backwards compatibility on windows pc's isn't as stellar as you seem to think. You also claim you have many, many years to play but you make the incorrect assumption that the games will work well on the hardware. with games being ported specifically for the pandora, they take use of the hardware in a very precise way, in the manner it was intended and therefore run well, because they have to. i gauntness you that no one is recoding games for the m1. many of the years of games you list have much higher requirements than it can handle. it also only has a keyboard and a touchscreen. why indeed would you want to play half life, medal of honor, or call of duty with that? of course you can take a controller, but at that point where are the benefits of a netbook? it's not quite portable anymore. you also make claims that these games will run well, where are the statistics? do you have framerates or battery impact for this stuff? the pandora offers more than what you claim- i dont know if you noticed, but the gp2x didnt have a dc emulator or a psp emulator or dozens of other things (part of whats great about the pandora is the dev community) portable fallout? there are a few engine re-implementations, some that work stupendously well and it might run on dosbox anyway. although, really, why would you want to play any black isle games on a handheld? they arent handheld games. they are meant for concentrated playing sessions- not something handhelds make sense to be used for, especially not with your 2 or 3 hours of battery life.
atom based with xp home? then it wouldnt be the pandora, it would be another shitty handheld with low battery life, a bad community, and inefficient hardware. As for competing in a real marketplace? You think the pandora doesn't? Of course it does, because despite the fact that its entirely different comparisons and chocies between the ds, psps, mid's and all that won't stop and will sway buyers.
I dare say you don't know what you are talking about.
