Interesting device: Open Pandora

I came across this the other day and thought it has some pretty darn awesome potential. Basically it looks like a group of developers in the portable DS/PSP hacking and video game emulator scene got together with a company to develop a a Linux based open source hand held gaming/computing device. The result is called Open Pandora:





The specs are pretty awesome:

* ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life

They say it is powerful enough to run games like Quake 3 which is quite impressive for something roughly the same size as a Nintendo DS. Throw in an open source Linux environment, Qwerty keyboard, touchscreen and controls that will allow you to play just about any video game you can emulate and I can see this becoming quite the formidable Japanese study tool/entertainment device.