It’s about the size of a Nintendo DS and (quoted from their website) “It was designed based on the input of thousands of forum users with one goal in mind - to make the ultimate open source handheld device.” The Open Pandora was designed to emulate everything from MAME arcade classics to older consoles like the SNES, and even other handhelds such as the Gameboy and Gameboy Color.

The spec list is impressive and the Open Pandora team claims that it is by far the most powerful handheld available.

  • ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
  • 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
  • PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
  • 800×480 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 do use the term “available” quite loosely though as right now they haven’t done their first large scale production run. Pricing seems to be set at around $330USD, so if you’re interested in a device like this, the price is definitely right. You can check out more details at www.openpandora.org.