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Horizontally-stretched displays always look like shit, which is why I hate console emulation on the PSP (or deal with black columns).]]>Dec 22nd 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
easy, for widescreen video and better program and internet usage. its great if you dont have to keep scrolling left and rightand dont have to have massive black space at the top and bottom of the movies you are watching.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/PSP wasn't cutting it? The only thing it doesn't do are N64 games.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
It seems cool and all, but what can it do that a modded PSP hasn't been able to do for years now? (well besides deal with Sony's BS)


]]>Dec 22nd 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
The Pandora also functions as a small Linux system with full Firefox, Abiword, etc.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/OK, well those are some nice reasons why to get an Pandora handheld over a PSP... but from what I have been able to find online, the Pandora has been in "development stage" for quite some time with no actual shipping units yet.
:(]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
They get closer and closer each day. It's been quite a roller coaster of sorts for the followers. ]]>Dec 22nd 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
The short answer to "What can it do that a modded PSP can't?": TONS

The longer answer:

Touchscreen. Physical Keyboard.
Full Speed (not partial speed) SNES emulation.
Hi-Res PSX emulation.
Hi-Res Full Speed N64.
Potential Dreamcast emulation (this one's up for debate, but more likely to happen in a playable form on the Pandora than on the PSP).

And the list goes on. Yes a modded PSP is a versatile beast, but the Pandora is without question a good deal more powerful and able to do MUCH more, faster and more authentically than a PSP can/will.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Full Speed (not partial speed) SNES emulation.
Hi-Res PSX emulation. "

PSP does those.

*Keyboard via pikey on infra-red enabled PSPs]]>Dec 22nd 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/"what can it do that a modded PSP hasn't been able to do for years now?"

Have a second analog nub built in correctly from the start. I'm sold on that alone.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/it's not the emulator, it's the game]]>Dec 22nd 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
good job he said he owned a copy of the game, eh]]>Dec 22nd 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
I really hope they won't sue (and doubt they would considering how versatile GP32x sounds).

FYI Nintendo along with a few dozen other companies, recently sued over R4 chips: http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/212608/nintendo-capcom-sue-to-stop-ds-piracy-in-japan/]]>Dec 22nd 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
I always believed that to be true because I saw it all over the web but a few years back it was pointed out to me that it's just a urban myth. I mean, come on, where's the accountability basis for such a law and who's not going to say that they own the game, and when the cops come a-knocking, just say they left it at their grandparent's house ....in another country]]>Dec 22nd 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 23rd 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/it's a common misconception that that makes it legal, the situation still remains iffy, especially with a game like this which is still in production on other platforms]]>Dec 24th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/You wear a watch? What year do you live in?]]>Dec 22nd 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
He's Dick Tracy. He can live in whatever goddamn year he wants.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/The Pandora watch comes standard with the latest Ford hovercar]]>Dec 22nd 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
Oh, and Android.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
that wouldn't work without it becoming really thick since the guts of it are in the lower part.]]>Dec 22nd 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
Throw out these things, make it therefor cheaper and maybe change the form factor and I will buy one :)]]>Dec 22nd 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Well, but the Wiz doesn't have the power the pandora has (-> N64 / PS1 emulation)]]>Dec 22nd 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
Actually, the PS1 emulation on the WiZ is coming along nicely. Some games work fine without sound. They're still working on it, though.

The N64 will never work on WiZ because, frankly, there aren't enough controls on a WiZ to play N64 games. It may handle the CPU requirements, but it will never handle the control needs.

My problem with Pandora is price. Yes, it's nifty and seems to handle these ten-year-old games quite well, but is it worth over $300 to play old games? No. Not when a Dingoo is $90 and a WiZ is $180 and both can be ordered and delivered today. Not when a PSP Pandora battery can be purchased for $6 and a magic memory card can be made for free.

No, these aren't as versatile as the Pandora may be, but the price difference isn't proportionate to the gain. There aren't enough N64 games to make me need to spend twice to three times as much on the Pandora.

PS1 games? PSP.
N64 games? PSP.
Everything else from Atari 2600 to GBA and SNES? WiZ or Dingoo.

You could buy a modded PSP and a Dingoo together, and you'll still not have spent as much as the Pandora costs on its own.

And you'll be playing today instead of "when it's finished".

I'm not against the Pandora. I wish them luck and hope it's awesome; I just think the price doesn't justify the uses for the device. Not unless it really handles EVERYTHING perfectly and doesn't have any technical or warranty issues.

There are going to be people who spent over $300 for the Pandora who will end up with a defective device and a long wait for a replacement... if the warranty ideal is even honored.

You're taking some strangers' word for it, and that's what makes the Pandora really intimidating. ]]>Dec 22nd 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/Dec 22nd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/near-final-pandora-handheld-gets-user-reviewed-shown-playing-su/
Check their avatar.
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