I work for Qualcomm and am surprised that the blog post author didn't consider our SoCs - it would meet all the requirements and I believe its not too much hassle to source from us.
Thanks for the feedback! I believe ED (the one who shared his experiences from the article) did contact Qualcomm but had difficulty securing small quantities as well from them. He probably forgot to mention it this time. However, if you think that it would still be possible and if you have commercial contacts within Qualcomm, I'd be happy to put you in touch with him.
Yes, would be happy to talk with your colleague and point him to the right contacts. I am at the San Diego headquarters.
If you don't mind, contact me through the form on Pandoralive (http://pandoralive.info/?page_id=2) and I'll get in touch with you personally. Not sure if it's not too late for this particular device, but it's for sure not the last project of that kind so it wouldn't hurt to start establishing a relationship. :)
Done.
Thanks :)
I also have a need (and am also an avid OpenPandora groupie) for a SoC vendor - any chance I could get your contact info as well? I'd be very happy to consider Qualcomm for my project..
How do I reach you? Not too happy sharing a company/personal email address here and my name is too complicated to describe my ID in a email-address-extractor-safe way.
boyikor@postalmail.biz is a tempmail I set up for the purpose ..
I actually am in the SoC market too, and would love a contact in sales/pre-sales. SFBA.
Is there anyway to reach you? The form throws an error when I hit submit (I think you did receive my form,just that the 'thanks' page url is messed up)
What SOC would you believe to fit the project?
I am not familiar with the categories/collections of games Open Pandora caters to, to answer that.
I would definitely recommend a high-end chipset (SnapDragon800/600)for someone building a gaming box.
On the other hand,I see on wiki that Pandora intends to support older games through console emulators, so an older/cheaper GPU should be fine if those are the bulk of the targets.