Special:Badtitle/NS116:Pandora

De Pandora is een handheld gamecomputer van de laatste generatie. Op de dag van release, geschat rond april/mei 2008, zal het de meest krachtigste handheld van deze tijd worden.

De Pandora.

Overview

De Pandora zal op een Linux distributie gaan draaien. Er worden verder geen kosten verbonden aan development tools, dus iedereen kan gratis spellen en dergelijk ervoor maken.

Core

The Pandora uses a Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 System-on-Chip. This includes the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, the TI C64X programmable DSP, the PowerVR SGX 530 3D accelerator and supporting components.

Opslag

De eerste versie van de Pandora komt met 128MB DDR RAM en 256MB onboard flash geheugen. Daarnaast zijn er 2 Secure Digital kaart slots en is er mogelijkheid om via de USB slot een standaard USB storage medium te gebruiken, zoals een USB-stick of zelfs een USB hardeschijf.

Invoer en uitvoer

De Pandora komt met twee analoge pads, een d-pad (vierpuntdruktoets), 4 actieknoppen, 2 schouderknoppen, 3 functieknoppen en een QWERTY toetsenbord.

Display

De schermresolutie van de Pandora is 800 bij 480 pixels, welke tevens touchscreen functionaliteit heeft.

TV-uit

The Pandora will have the ability to output S-video and composite signals to television sets. In addition, picture-in-picture and seperate signals for the TV and LCD will be supported.

Geluid

De Pandora heeft een uitstekende hoge-kwaliteits DAC (Digitaal-naar-Analoog), een ADC (Analoog-naar-Digitaal), een ingebouwde microfoon en stereo speakers naast het display. Volume control is een hardware schuifknop.

Keyboard

De Pandara heeft een bijna-volledig QWERTY toetsenbord, met een 'Function'-knop voor meer toetscombinaties.

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• General
  • The name: Pandora [1]
  • Dimensions: 140 x 83 x 27 mm (slightly larger than a DS Lite: vs 133 mm × 73.9 mm × 21.5 mm)
  • Price: 199 GBP(incl. VAT) (approx. $330 USD, 212 € (excl. VAT)
  • Release date: April/May 2008 for dev units, summer 2008 for full production units (can and will be changed if needed)
  • Case will be a bit smaller the GP2X, and will be a mix of metal and plastic. [2]

• Core Hardware:
  • Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 System-on-chip. [3] [4] Specifications can be found at this link: [5]
  • PowerVR SGX GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0, several million polygons per second). OpenGL ES demonstrated: [6]
  • 128MB of DDR SDRAM.
  • Real Time Clock (RTC) built in, to keep track of time. [7]
  • 256MB of internal flash memory.
  • Will be "unbrickable".

• Display: 800x480 widescreen (5:3), 4.3 inches, touchscreen LCD.[8]
  • Brightness:300 cd/m2, Contrast ratio:450:1, Response time:tr+tf=30ms[9]
  • Dimensions: 93.6 x 56.2 mm (4.3 inches, 5:3 aspect ratio).
  • TV-out included in hardware, A/V-OUT Port outputs S-Video and Composite and inputs 3,5mm Headphone/Microphone cables..
    • Separate TV-out signals, picture-in-picture capabilities. [10]
  • Powerful 2D and 3D hardware acceleration, see above. [11]

• Input:
  • Buttons, keyboard, microphone, and touchscreen. [12]
  • Directional pad will be a D-pad - not a pseudo-analog GP2X-style device. [13]
  • Two real analog nubs, will have click function. Will have a rubber grip. A video of the analog nub to be used in Pandora's construction.
  • QWERTY keyboard. [14]
  • Built-In Microphone [15]

• Connectivity:
  • 802.11g (Wi-fi) included. USB host included. USB-on-the-go (one-port host and client) included. [16]
  • The USB will be fully powered (500 milliamps). You'll be able to use anything that has drivers. [17]
  • RS-232 will be included, but a level converter will be needed for the UART. [18]
  • Twin SDHC slots.

• Software:
  • Open2X-type Linux firmware. [19]
  • One-click install system - Debian ARMEL packages probably compatible with minor work.
  • Potential Emulation: Nearly any game console which predates the Playstation for which an open-source emulator exists. Nearly any 8 or 16 bit computer system for which an open-source emulator exists.
    • Atari 2600, 7800, 5200, and Lynx
    • Nintendo NES, SNES, Gameboy, and GBA
    • Sega Master System and Genesis
    • NEC PCEngine (TurboGrafx-16)
    • SNK NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket, and Pocket Color
    • Sony Playstation [20]
    • Atari 400, 800, and ST
    • Amiga
    • PC (DOSBox)
    • Apple II
  • Possible Software:
    • Will be capable of running X11 with a window manager and desktop environment, and probably will by default.
    • There should be the ability to run normal programs you can run on Modern Linux builds as well, provided it does not exceed 128MB of RAM (excluding any virtual memory for performance reasons) and is ported. This includes a full build of Firefox! Firefox 3.0 uses much less memory and resources, and should run fine on the Pandora.
    • Macromedia Flash is possible on the Pandora with web browsers with some work. Maybe not full Flash support though, but http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ can be ported to the Pandora and run up to FlashV7 guaranteed, play Youtube videos (mplayer and VLC can play FLV files just fine, play other movie files from Firefox, and VLC can stream FLV easily) and can work with Firefox or as a standalone program.
    • Advanced multimedia support, including streaming: mplayer, VLC, xine and any other program that is open source is possible. For a general idea of file support for VLC see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html, and for xine see http://xinehq.de/index.php/features.

• Power:
  • Lithium-polymer battery, ~4000mAH.
  • Up to 10 hours battery life under reasonable load. Up to 100 hours playing MP3s. [21]
  • Can charge through AC adapter or USB. [22]
  • Advanced power management capabilities: only need to set a max clockspeed, when the CPU is not doing anything it automatically HALTs and does nothing to save a lot of power.[23]
  • Will be able to suspend to RAM or suspend to disk for longer battery life and faster start up.