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There's the OpenPandora (https://www.openpandora.org/) that did make it into hands of customers.

If you look around Youtube and such, everyone seemed highly satisfied with it, but as a owner myself, it kinda sucked.

By the time it came out, it was underpowered, it never was able to run any decent web browser at an acceptable level. It's focus was gaming and emulation, but even then it wasn't any better than a modded PSP (I would say in terms of software, it was worse). My Pandora had numerous manufacturing defects and the way to resolve it was "post in the user forums" where people would reply "Don't worry about it, it's a purely open-sourced handheld! You could just 3D print a new L button!"

And what pissed me off to no end, people would overclock the CPU over 40% to get stuff to run at acceptable speeds, and then in the same breath say that "it's amazing, 10 hour battery!" Not if you overclock the thing.

I still get excited when I see these new ultra-portable computers, but then I remember the Pandora and quickly tell myself not to waste my money.



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