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    What are Pandora's competitors?

    Just curious, what other competitor products of Pandora have you seen out there? Pandora has a lot going for it, probably the best set of all features, but what have you seen out there that's tempted you? I've run across the Archos 43 and the Viliv N5 recently. They looked nice. What I saw...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Better than a minute. But still not very good. I want 10 seconds max. You'd be surprised how much more useful a device is if it only requires 10 seconds vs. one that requires 35 seconds or a minute to boot-up. And 10 seconds is still pretty long. I really want 2 seconds. If you read down a...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Apparently to you all things are possible with the Pandora. Nobody can say anything different. Like I said, you can plug it into a desktop PC and use the desktop PC as an add-on peripheral. Haha. Whereas to me, while you can do some of those things, you wouldn't want to. And realistically...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    So you couldn't, say, turn it over to an x86 emulator and run the x86 binary of Skype? Is that not doable? ARM processor is too slow? Would be better at 1.0GHz instead of 600MHz? Or just wouldn't work? - Steve
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    We all know what it CAN do

    I said "reasonably well". You can plug a desktop PC into a Pandora by connecting it to USB port. Is that something you're saying would really work well, though? Is it reasonable? There are all these USB port add-on peripherals that you could dig up somewhere. I'm sure there's some company...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    I used to be a VLSI design engineer at Texas Instruments on their c6x DSP processor team. Yeah the same team that made the c64x DSP inside the OMAP that's on Pandora, as far as I can tell. I was more of a jack of all trades back then, getting into just about all aspects of design, analysis and...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    I did say "reasonably well". It's a matter of perspective. Yes, you can get a bunch of things on USB stick these days. Heck, an entire desktop PC can be "on USB port" if you connect to one. Heh. But is it reasonable to want to plug in a different USB device for every simple application? I mean...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    I've seen people here on these boards who have said that Skype is what they want, not Ekiga. Why? Because everyone knows Skype. Nobody has ever heard of Ekiga. Even my new TV has Skype built-in. Yes I'm aware the technology doesn't really exist yet. For perfection, you'd need non-volatile...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Those all have no standardized interface between the software and the peripherals, I believe. Even if you did have a USB stick with accelerometer on it (which I didn't think existed by the way), it's the protocol used by the stick that the software must be able to speak in order to access the...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Yeah, I count these 4 in my list of things which can reasonably be done through add-on peripherals: - GPS - Wifi N - WiMax - Video cameras The rest are not reasonably resolved by using add-on peripherals. And we can discuss why if you'd like: - HDMI port - Cell phone - USB 3.0...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Most of what I listed can not be done by simply plugging in an add-on peripheral. I counted a total of 4 things I mentioned which could reasonably be done with an add-on peripheral (although not very well). I counted 12 things which could not. See, this is the defensiveness and dismissiveness...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Wow, a lot of people here are very defensive about their Pandora console. Haha. I guess that's to be expected. Passions run high here for this thing. Whenever someone points out something that it would be nice to have, a bunch of people try to dismiss it as heresy. It's either marginalized as...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Do you think that's what people really mean when they ask for a sim card slot? That they just want the thing to read their sim cards? Because, that's not what I meant, and I even said so. Yes, of course we want the thing to have a full cell phone chipset so that it can make real cell phone...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Well, that's the thing. A lot of those things can be done with add-on peripherals. I already mentioned that. And I didn't think we were comparing them to other devices, were we? But what I'm getting at is that these sorts of things that I've listed off are coming standard now with many of the...
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    We all know what it CAN do

    Stuff missing: - HDMI port - GPS - Cell phone sim card slot - Front and/or rear facing cameras - USB 3.0 - Wifi 802.11n - WiMax - Multi-touch capacitive touch screen - 3D viewing - 3 axis accelerometer - Magnetometer (compass) - True "instant on" - 1GHz CPU...
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    How long if I buy today?

    Thanks for that correction, FaeMinx. I wasn't aware of that. That helps. I may actually order one after all. By the way, how do you know your place in the 2nd batch? - Steve
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    Pandora OMAP4 and POSITIVE FEEDBACK!!

    Hehe. Sorry, I designed a small part of the DSP. I never actually learned to program on it, believe it or not. VLIW architecture is particularly difficult to do by hand in assembly language. Well, easy to do if you don't care to take advantage of VLIW, but then you might as well use the regular...
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    How long if I buy today?

    Okay thanks guys for the heads up. If I'm reading this correctly, there are people here who sent in their money in 2008 and have yet to receive a single pandora console, more than two years later. They had to wait this long for the second batch which is due out 1st half of 2011. And even then...
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    Pandora OMAP4 and POSITIVE FEEDBACK!!

    I have yet to get a Pandora console. But I just got a kick out of how it's using the Texas Instruments OMAP chip. I was on the chip design team that designed it. Well, the DSP section anyway. Never thought it would be used for this sort of application. Ha! Can't wait to get my hands on a...
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    How long if I buy today?

    I really just stumbled onto the Pandora a week or so ago, and I haven't quite grasped the reality of how soon it would be before I could actually receive the console if I bought today. Can anyone give me a heads up on that? Supposedly there's a batch due out in the first quarter of 2011, but I...
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