[pedanticfreak]

OpenPandora had great promise. When they started it there was nothing more powerful. But now it's slower than even the most dated Android phones on the market.

600 mhz A8? We're in the 1.2ghz range right now. Two, three, and four core designs are about to be commonplace.

[yozhik]

I agree. Open Pandora was really interesting for me when it first came out. Now, I have a Nokia n900. Other than the game controls the n900 is mostly comparable, with the additoin of GSM support. The n900 is also very open, and prevents me form having to carry a separate phone.

[nickik]

True, but who cares if you smartphone has 1.2ghz? Its not open and you want get costum optimized stuff like an the pandora.

Its not all about the numbers.

[inoop]

I bought a pre-paid zte blade (http://www.okmobile.ch/de/mobile/index.php?id=smartphone) for 90 euros the other day to use as a dev phone. It has a 800x480 TFT touchscreen, 512mb ram, hardware accelerated graphics, GPS, 3G internet, WiFi, bluetooth, and accelerometers/magnetometers. It's pretty open as it runs Froyo 2.2, jailbreak/root is easy, kernel source is available.

Sure, it doesn't have any buttons, you can use a bluetooth joystick/keyboard (i.e. http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/using-a-bluetooth-gamepad-...) if you really want to.