It's not that simple, a convergence of use cases exist. I'm sure people tell themselves the 2 devices are light years apart, but its just ideology and how they come out of the box, The differences as far as limitations are very much in the hardware. You can develop on the shield, just not as well as the pandora. You can chroot linux and connect to the android host to write android apps, or you can write apps natively within android (IDE's do exist in android), it becomes troublesome having to hook in a usb or bt keyboard though, so is using on screen keyboard is less than ideal, but it's still possible. You can also use a native linux on shield (non-public but it exists and not mature) and do basically the same stuff on shield you could do on pandora. The exact oposite can be said about the pandora, you can develop directly on the native mature linux that is ideal with a built in keyboard. You can run a chrooted android or boot one natively (non-public but it exists and not mature) you can do basically everything you can do on the shield on the pandora. Maturity of alternate software, and the primary uses of it's primary OS is definitely a selling point, but it's not a limiting factor.Peoples don't get it,the shield nothing to compares, like the song from Sinead O'Connor.
Pandora for developers and easy quick mini Office machine
Nvidia really did a nice job with the shield for gaming purpose and they still doing, the only one thing, I hope they a better job with the design for the next one.
I just want to said for the last time, there is a need for all in one portable, game, console, entertainment, networking, netbook,TV, device..
CPU wise for sure, Not sure how the PowerVR rates vs the Nvidia offerings.Based on the specs of the Omap 5 chipset that's currently the frontrunner for the Pyra, will this make it more powerful than the current Shield?
Just curious that's all mostly. One of the main draws for me on the original Pandora was in idea of decent handheld Amiga emulation, and so far the Pyra holds the same promise for Dreamcast emulation (hopefully)CPU wise for sure, Not sure how the PowerVR rates vs the Nvidia offerings.Based on the specs of the Omap 5 chipset that's currently the frontrunner for the Pyra, will this make it more powerful than the current Shield?
I question the accuracy of this.CPU wise for sure
It's already different from others. What are you talking about ?but what about something new to make the different or differentiate from others
You tell mebut what about something new to make the different or differentiate from others
It's already different from others. What are you talking about ?
The difference is what it already has. Nobody builds a handheld game console with a keyboard. Nobody ships a full Linux handheld (with desktop environment) and nobody has dual SD slots or full usb hosts in a mobile. And especially nobody does all that together. Everything else it advertises and sports as features has been repeated over and over in many different ways on tons of devices. And as far as Linux can and has been reproduced by community driven firmware on certain devices.Its not just about about The SoC,its everything else what it come, design,support,etc.
I don't think that Omap 5 with power vr can't beat tegra4 K1.
There are supposed to be things to make the different,like nvidia choose shield the clamshells don't like but they thought that this is the best design,the only good different for the shield its the company nvidia,the SoC and android game console.
Pandora Pyra,maybe a new powerful SoC,learn from mistake, community, still Linux,same design,but what about something new to make the different or differentiate from others beside open source