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Ich habe gerade eine Email vom OpenPandora Team erhalten, die ich mal schnell (sinngemäß) übersetze:

Hey, Craig hier,
das ist der letzte Newsletter, bevor wir die Konsolen verschicken werden.
Ja, nachdem wir lange herumgeschraubt haben, haben wir entschiedenen, dass die Pandora bereit für euch ist.
Sicherlich hast du all die tollen Videos gesehen: Spieleports, Firefox, Emulatoren..
(…)
Das geschieht als Nächstes:
Wir haben noch 100 Geräte zum Verkaufen, streng limitiert, jeder Kunde bekommt maximal eins!
Preis liegt bei 330$, schicke eine Email an: openpandorasales@gmail.com
Es wird keinen 2. Batch mehr vor 2010 geben! (Da frag ich mich jetzt mal: Wird es endlich einen Batch im Jahre 2009 geben? )
Der Bau findet in den USA statt, damit man höheren Standard liefern kann, als es die Chinesen tun würden.

Außerdem schreibt Craig über die 105 Boards und, dass man sich jetzt auf Software konzentrieren möchte. Jeder, der unseren Blog aufmerksam verfolgt, kennt diese Infos aber schon, deshalb bleiben sie unübersetzt!

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Die englische original Email:

Hello everyone, Craig here,

This is the last OpenPandora newsletter before we start shipping Pandora consoles to customers.
Yes, we have finally, after a lot of serious tweaking, decided the Pandora is ready to roll.
You will have already seen all the videos, the emulators, the various game ports, firefox, they are on the website if you have not.

Just before we get going, how about one more? The Pandora running a Dreamcast emulator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gYfwtj7Mok&feature=youtube_gdata

Right, now, this email is about what happens next.
For those of you who still want a Pandora from the first batch there is a small number (100) still available to
preorder, on a first come first served basis, at $330 each. Email: openpandorasales@gmail.com. These are limited to one per customer.
We are also able to offer a very limited number of consoles to web stores (less than 150), again on a first come basis.

There won’t be another batch until 2010.

So, between now and then, what’s going to happen?

Well the Pandora is being made in Dallas, Texas, USA. We decided not to go down the usual ‘Made in China’ route.
It might cost a little more but we believe the level of service you will get from us will be far greater due to this.

Currently we have 105 test mass production Pandoras, as well as numerous full pre-production Pandora consoles.
A lot of these are with developers who are working on software, you will have seen a lot of it in the videos we have posted on youtube.

In October the factory will start to populate 4000 Pandora PCBs, this will be a slow process at first
which will become substantially faster after the initial 800.
As the PCBs are completed, they are tested then put in to cases, boxed up and shipped out to you.

After we ship the first 4000 units , and before the second batch, we will then be concentrating on software
development, looking after the current customers and, well, trying to make the Pandora the best open hand held ever made.

There is still nothing like the Pandora on the market; digital dpad, dual analogue nubs, qwerty keyboard,
800*480 touch screen, over 10 hours of battery life and lots more, we think you will really like it.

So, you can finally sit back, be happy and join the fun on the forums at http://gp32x.com/board or our fancy new website http://openpandora.org

Thanks,
Craig and the OpenPandora team.