i dont like the keyboard, but thats only because it takes up too much space
i love the idea, and if this thing is really what they say its gonna be, then i'm onboard for sure

Seriously, they're taking suggestions on the keyboard. Go, tell 'em what you think!

Will it have closed source cra^H^H^Hdrivers or everything will be open/documented?

go to the "our new machine" thread on the gp32 forums and tell em you'll buy it if they get Maemo/ITOS on it.

They're fixin to do their own minimalist OS crap on it, which will totally hamstring it for general purpose use.

If they go with maemo, the internet tablet community will get a bunch of awesome emulators.

Huge win-win potential for both communities.

Pandora mockup videos - see how the Dpad and analog controls are well placed for thumbs.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxN3DmFZXF0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dOYRy8_D1cI

But what about the touchsreen? I don't think you can use it too good.

Why not? I use the touch screen on my Psion Series 5mx, and even on my new Netbook, without any problem. Both those devices are a clamshell-cum-keyboard design and at least one is significantly larger than the Pandora-to-be.

It all boils down to user interface design...

The reason for a minimal os is to leave the maximum amount of resources available for programs. It will be up to the community to port other environments, but I stll consider a port of maemo to be pretty likely.

I'm sure the system will be as open as possible. Unfortunately, some hardware vendors still don't "get it" when it comes to F/OSS.

From the wiki it seems they'll go for 'Open2x' and be compatible with debian-arm.

So yes - a minimal program launcher and not much else.

That might make it less of a competitor for the tablets, less application integration, less out-of-the-box stuff running on it.

Would be nice for the tablets if their emus would run on ITOS... but then again... until Nokia makes something with a decent dpad, it's somewhat pointless.

if they're both debian arm, and both x-windows, then that might make them able to share some of the most basic applications ... the question is how much maemo requires a gui-app to be hildonized in order for the binary to run and be functional.