unfortunatly, it takes a big company like sony or apple to have any idea of good design.
the thing is ugly, with a keyboard that looks like a revamped zx spectrum... only the keys arent rubber. whilst this is somewhat quaint for a machine from the early 1980's, we're almost 30 years on from that now, and frankly such looks do not suit modern machines.
the gaming controls, not only look badly placed, above the keyboard, but the thing is too straight. there is a reason the PSP and PS1/2/3 controllers are curved.... its because it suits your hands. What is being done here is going back to the early days of nintendo's "Game & Watch" series, but with a bloody great keyboard in the centre, and with a machine much larger by comarrison, and certainly a lot thicker. i cant see it being very comfy during prolonged gaming. Even the PSP suffers that problem after a while, and that's a fairly familar layout.
i dont doubt the capabilities and the spec of a machine such as Pandora, i just see many of the same issues on a design level that i also have with the GP2X - so it's highly unlikely i'll be buying one.
* Hungry Horace waits to be flamed for daring to criticise such a machine
