OpenPandora begins ‘private’ sales, fast-track your open-source gaming handheld for an extra $150

What with all the excitement about Sony’s quad-core handheld and Nintendo’s autostereoscopic screen , we have to say, we nearly forgot about the open-source Pandora handheld slowly but assuredly shipping from the UK . Well, we’ve got some bittersweet news to share, and here it goes: you can now purchase an Pandora for $500, and have it ship within a week. What’s bitter about that? Because normally you pay $350 and get put on the pre-order waiting list. That extra $150 sounds like quite the surcharge, but it’s an option if you simply can’t wait for your number to come up, and OpenPandora chief Craig Rothwell tweets that some portion of those monies will help support the project. Still, those extra units have to come from somewhere, and if you’ve been standing in line for months, we imagine you won’t happy to hear that some rich kid can just swoop in and buy your Pandora out from under you without a care in the world. OpenPandora begins ‘private’ sales, fast-track your open-source gaming handheld for an extra $150 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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