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Pandora Mock-Upby ~capnhack

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A new handheld device is being developed which is (for now) called Pandora, and the specs are just stunning on it but i wasnt fond of the initial renders. Last night i couldnt sleep so i decided to design my ideal version of the Pandora, and here it is. Its totally unworkable due to weight, patent, and cost restrictions, but this would be my ideal fully versatile handheld device.

For more info on the Pandora (technical stuff), check out the wiki here: [link] and there are a few different views of my mock-up at the following links: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

This thing took about 8 hours total to model, texture, and render which aint too bad really.
Modeled & Rendered in Cinema4d, post work in Photoshop. Full size 1920x1200 pixels, available via download link.

Edit: brightened and lifted the entire image, made the materials a bit more realistic. This render took 24 mins with a tiny bit of post work in photoshop.

~thedjin Jan 2, 2008

wow this thing seems to be too good, even better than a hacked DS, except of course for the games... but to use it the way I do [my hand-laptop] I think this would be better, the keyboard, the... well pretty much everything xD

But this is more aimed to emulators, right? since it will be ready for PS games and says possibly N64 too, and I don't think there will be any games for this console, except homebrew... so if one is considering buying a Pandora, then it WILL have to be for media playing, internet stuff and perhaps some emulation, but not gaming, am I correct? Hacked DS + Pandora then? hehehe

greets mate, happy 2008!!

~capnhack Jan 6, 2008

thanks

yea its a fully open source console, like the gp2x and gp32 before it, but this ones made by the community rather than the company that made the other two. its mainly aimed at emulation and homebrew but dont think that means any low quality when it comes to apps and games for it. there probably wont be any commercially released games unless the makers seal some deals with certain developers, but its got a huge amount of potential to run all kinds of things and the dev community is very active for these kinds of handhelds.

at the moment the one most of them use is the gp2x which emulates anything up to and including snes games extremely well and can also run ports of a bunch of commercial games like the monkey island ones, quake, duke nukem, etc. its hardware just isnt powerful enough to take it any further and its not exactly built for first person shooters or ps1 games, although you can run some ps1 games and quake 2 on it if you really wanna try. the pandora is being made to give devs the power they need to take that further and will be capable of games that look and run better than those on the psp, so it shouldnt be discounted for gaming and could well leave the ds in the dust (plus you wouldnt have to pay for each game you can use and wouldnt need each one on a separate card/cart). the idea that homebrew stuff is all crappy looking limited puzzle games doesnt reflect reality on a system like the pandora, only on stuff like psp and ds where the companies actively try to stop it being done.

~thedjin Jan 9, 2008

yea i know wat u mean but, well there's a very avtive dev comunity for the DS too, there are really nice homebrew games and apps; apps like Phidias which is a photoshop kinda painting program, or there's a voip client, and there's irc, msn messenger, etc etc... and for games there's even QuakeDS which is a port and runs fine on the DS.. there's snes, gb, nes and genesis emulation, besides other consoles that I don't care about, so my point here is for Pandora to replace the DS, it should run stuff like no other device can... and u say better looking than the PSP? well if it isn't powerful enough for a decent FPS, I don't see how it will run a game that's better looking than a PSP game, which look way better than PS1 games, and even matches the PS2 [for a handheld, cmon, it's close enough..]

And Nintendo isn't trying to stop the dev comunity.. I dunno about Sony tho.

I still think Pandora has great potential, and I'm really considering getting one when it comes out, but it's GOTTA be as good or better than my DS...

~capnhack Jan 11, 2008

ahh, thats quite unusual. sony certainly take measures to stop anyone putting custom firmware/software on the psp and its been the same with nintendo up to the ds, but its nice to know that theyre changing now.

the gp2x is the one thats not powerful enough to run the later stuff, but the pandora is far more powerful than that (and more powerful than the psp too). itll run linux so any arm package that will run on (not final yet) debian, including design apps, pda stuff, games, ports, emulators, etc. its also got tv-out and a bigger screen, as well as built in usb host ports so itll certainly be able to do more than the ds. i do hope their current design isnt the one they go with tho, it needs smoothing out overall and the controls dont look too comfy with the analogue sticks.

~thedjin Jan 13, 2008

true, true.. so they just need to smooth some rough edges and Pandora will be an awesome device ^_^ can't wait hehe

~capnhack Jan 14, 2008

yep, thats the hope anyway. theyre trying to keep a lid on the price as much as possible so it wont be perfect, but its whats inside that really counts and that should be top notch

~feravoon Dec 26, 2007 Student Digital Artist

but your design is better than the original one

~feravoon Dec 26, 2007 Student Digital Artist

gaming buttons are at the top.its playable but not comfortable. i thing you should put down gaming buttons and analog pads

~capnhack Dec 26, 2007

hmm, well i could move them down and put the speakers up at the top instead. the problem then is that it wouldnt be so comfy to use the shoulder buttons and the analogue pads at the same time cos youd need to stretch, and perhaps the keyboard would need to be open to give you something to hold on to.. its really difficult to fit everything in without the device becoming abnormally long, but there are certainly other ways to do it

~feravoon Dec 25, 2007 Student Digital Artist

Place of gaming buttons is not good.It will be hard to play with this buttons

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