EvilDragon has been hard at work making those videos that we all love. First off, he shows us how easy it is to switch between GUIs as well as some Atari ST emulation. Then, after the jump he shows us some Amiga emulation using UAE (which runs flawlessly).
The operating system hasn’t been given much attention of late. But the software developers have been working away to get you a stable operating system at launch. The official status page has been updated to include a table of OS features to expect at launch. Most of these will be working correctly by the time the Pandora reaches our grubby hands.
Keep in mind that this is the CURRENT state. A lot of things will be fixed until you receive your Pandora.
Fresh from the twitter of Craigix:
The cases have arrived early, wow, some good luck for once!
When I say early I actually mean weeks late I suppose.
Well, not perfect, but I guess we will have to go with them.
Sit tight, grab some popcorn, we’ll bring you updates as quickly as we can.
From ze Twitter:
Status: In Transit – Rescheduled Rescheduled Delivery Date: 08/02/2010 Would’ve been nice before the weekend, but won’t happen sadly.
But it’s not all bad news, as MWeston has kindly informed us:
It might bounce back to Friday once it hits the US border (Alaska). These China shipments change the delivery date once or twice along the route every time. Sometimes they change back to the original delivery date, sometimes they don’t. We’ll know by tonight.
Tense?
Update: There’s a new post from ED on the official blog. It covers stuff you already know, but here’s the link anyway.
Update: Image courtesy of Screeny
Just a quick update on the cases.
Your package is on time with a scheduled delivery date of 05/02/2010.
Cpasjuste has uploaded a video of Android running on the Pandora. Android is an operating system that was originally developed by an independent company and later brought by Google. Android is a popular operating system for smart phones.
This is my first attempt to port android to the pandora, touch screen support in the work.
-cpasjuste
I can confirm it. That statement(including the assurance that everything will be ready before the New Year) came from Fatih this morning after his friend had asked for confirmation in Chinese.
EvilDragon (Translated)
Maybe we’ll finnaly get those delicious images some time next week!
We spoke to the factory, they confirmed the moulds are finished and they are shipping final samples this weekend.
Craigix
Here we have our third independent look at a Pandora, this time from forum dev notaz. This is believed to be the same Pandora that Craig used to stress test the hinge and is also one of the first cases from China.
Update: EvilDragon saves the day! Some good news from the dragon. Jump in and head to the bottom for his German forum post roughly translated to english by mali (& Vlynndar).
Update 2: MWeston corrects misinformation about the mold price.
It’s been just over a week since China said that they’ve thrown the cases in the mail. Now it seems that problems on MWeston’s end will hold up the case even further.
The cases won’t be here until Thurs/Fri at best. We’ve got some really bad weather here right now which is shutting down a lot of services and China didn’t ship exactly when they said they would (shocking I know!).
MWeston
Michael goes on to explain the tenuous communication links between himself and China.
For everybody who didn’t get in on the first batch, EvilDragon has ordered “the parts” for the second batch. “The parts” sounds pretty comprehensive so it’s possible that “the parts” refers to ALL of the components that make up the Pandora.
Good news for 2nd batchers: We’ve ordered the parts for the second batch, so that it doesn’t take too long.
Maybe EvilDragon will enlighten us.
For the second time, a fellow pre-orderer has been allowed to examine and use the (almost) final Pandora. This time “x68000″ is the reviewer.
Check out his entire review as well as some comparison shots after the break.
A few more images have slipped onto MWestons photobucket, the first is of the silkscreening. Check out the rest, along with MWestons commentary after the break.
Update (to the update?):
The boards will be done before Christmas, there is no delay there.
At least the Chinese don’t have christmas in the way of their work.
They are already working on fixing the issues. We expect an update on Saturday.
No, it’s not a green light. MWeston has found a few issues with the cases that need to be solved before mass production can begin.
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