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I also like this competitor: http://www.openpandora.org/

OpenPandora made many different choices, though, so it may fill a different market segment.

Does anyone know of yet another competitor? I would love to see a real growth free software friendly hand-held computing.

Whats the deal with Open Pandora. It seems like one of those projects that is never going to materialize. They took pre-orders over a year a go now and the final device still hasn't been produced even though they seem to claim at various points that it is only 'months' away.

Users just started receiving the first final units yesterday! The last hurdle was the injection-molded cases.

There's the Creative Zii platform: http://www.zii.com/Developer/Landing.aspx

There are the Dingoo A320 and the GP2X Wiz but they seem to suffer from the same problems as I expect this to have (compared with the Pandora) i.e. that they are made useful by western-based user communities formed around hardware that arrives fully formed and somewhat mysteriously from the far east.

The Pandora was born out of this scene with the idea of the user community providing up front input on what they want, some based on frustrations with other systems.

Is the lag time between the movement of the device and the movement of the controlled 'object' just due to the HDMI out? If not it seems mostly like a recipe for frustrating to play a racing game where your controller has such a lag-time.

Maybe this was the way the accelerometer is handled. Maybe it is just the game play (this kind of hovercraft may be supposed to react with a delay). The only way of knowing may be to try it yourself, just after Mario Kart on Wii.

It's the game. It's tough to get used to. It's called Speed Forge 3D if you want to try it out - there's a lite version in the Android Market.

The site says "Developer-focused portable game device" Can someone explain?

Does it mean thats it's a cross platform game dev device for developing and testing PS/Wii/Xbox apps? or is it just a hackable and portable comp with fewer keys made specifically gaming?

I took a look at the "Platform" dev section of Odroid site and only found projects.

P.S: This kinda device is entirely new to me. Just took a look at OpenPandora and Zii. these sound very cool.

[EDIT: I figured out. Its a hackable/portable device]

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