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I was an original crowd-funder of the Pandora. Waited years (three, I think) for mine to turn up, by which time my interest in that sort of thing had waned, and it was also out-of-date and felt pretty like a first attempt in terms of build quality, etc. It had what I would now consider to be "alibaba" build quality. Not great, but not terrible. I have reasonably high standards for build quality, and I was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't thinking Macbook Pro build quality, but was expecting mid-range laptop build quality. This felt like a cheap device in comparison.

I sold mine on eBay at a time that there was still a huge waiting list, so made a fair bit on it - IIRC I doubled my money, having sold it within a week of it arriving.

The pyra website seems to still be working to the same formula, and looks to be taking pre-orders - very much like back whenever the Pandora was a thing!

[1] - https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/



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