Yay, Got My Pandora

[jdbye]

Just got back from vacation today to find my second-hand one nubber waiting at the post office.
The left nub is gritty but otherwise seems fine after doing the nub dance a few times. Think blasting it with canned air will do any good?
The only other problem is I have too many things to try on it and not enough time Lots of ROMs and PNDs to try, sexying up XFCE, etc...
Like everyone said, the D-pad is fantastic. The keyboard is decent, probably about as good as a keyboard of that size can get, of course it will never compare to a full size keyboard. I have to look for several seconds to find the correct key if i want to type a symbol because the placement is unusual, but that probably just takes some getting used to. I like the placement of the , and . keys, it feels natural to have them there.
Using the nubs as mouse works better than I expected (it doesn't work very well with normal analog sticks, tried that before), and the screen is good. Super Mario 64 looks fantastic on it
I literally haven't had it for more than 2 hours, but that's my first impressions... more to come!

 

[Prometheus]

Congratulations, a winner is you - looking forward to hearing more thoughts!

You'd better change your signature. :lol:

 

[Jourdy288]

Yay, keep us posted

 

[Bosbeetle]

Welcome to the bunch

 

[jdbye]

Congratulations, a winner is you - looking forward to hearing more thoughts!

You'd better change your signature. :lol:

No one noticed it before so I figured they wouldn't notice it now either... actually I just forgot
EDIT: Fixed

 

[tsh]

I have to look for several seconds to find the correct key if i want to type a symbol because the placement is unusual, but that probably just takes some getting used to. I like the placement of the , and . keys, it feels natural to have them there.

It's all very well, till you find each Monday, you struggle to use a standard keyboard again!

 

[Bosbeetle]

I can now blindly do smileys with the pandora keybord

 

[SomeGuy99]

The worst thing about the keyboard is trying to find the blue symbols in the dark.

 

[Bosbeetle]

The worst thing about the keyboard is trying to find the blue symbols in the dark.

agreed they are sometime hard to find

 

[nagy]

congrats, welcome to the family

 

[gruso]

Think blasting it with canned air will do any good?

Yep, it helped (didn't fix, but improved) mine

 

[emcee]

The only real issue I've had with the keyboard layout is the location of the backspace. Muscle memory is pretty die hard. Trying to type something often goes like this:

Once upon a timr

Oops that was supposed to be an e, better get rid of that r:

Once upon a timrp

Dammit, now I have p there. Better get rid of that:

Once upon a timrpp

...

 

[MonkeyChops]

The worst thing about the keyboard is trying to find the blue symbols in the dark.

ah, a fellow bed pandora user. When my wife is trying to sleep, she doesn't like when I turn on the lamp just to use the toy that gets more attention than her so, I'm always closing the screen to a 30 degree angle to use the screen light to locate those damn blue characters. The glare on those shinny buttons is terrible but it does work. Bring on the back lit keyboard mod

 

[emcee]

Can't you just get a book light?

 

[MonkeyChops]

not a bad idea actually

this would work:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5a84/?source=google_usb&cpg=ogusb1&gclid=CKrDuMeksKMCFUsJ2god9WtA3g

 

[gruso]

^ I've got a similar one somewhere, but it has a curly flex cord instead of that rigid arrangement (less chance of damaging the USB port!). I must try it out soon.