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Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
With that said, would having both a Pyra and Neo900 be redundant?
Sort of. But there's nothing wrong with having backups.

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
Do you carry your phone in a bag (if you carry bags, that is)?
Iff I carry a bag (or a jacket), I carry my phone in it.
Since that's not always the case I sometimes carry my phone in my trousers pocket.
As I already said elsewhere that would make the Neo900 my summer device while the Pyra would be my winter device.

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
Do you feel comfortable pulling out something resembling a 3DS to do office work on-the-move or even to text friends?
What's wrong with that?
If my friends care so much about the looks of my phone that they feel offended by it, I should probably change my friends instead of my phone.

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
There's also a major caveat to using the Pyra as a companion device that's rather unique to the Pyra- its features and how many of them are useful on-the-move. While having heaps of features is usually a good thing, a significant chunk of those features won't enhance your portable computing, thus making the user the primary bottleneck as to what features are used on-the-move.
Huh?

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
Idk about you, but I haven't seen many people carrying around hard drives with their eSATA cables in tow just to piss off iPhone users.
Well, I do - apart from the IPhone user's thing. If they feel pissed off by me carrying an eSATA HDD then that's their problem, not mine. I simply don't care.

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
While it's not uncommon to carry a USB stick with you, I don't know of anyone who carries two of them.
Me again - sometimes!
I grew up with Mac Gyver, which means there are certain things I ALWAYS carry around. That of course includes the mandatory swiss knife, and among other things also its digital counterpart which is a USB stick with a rescue Linux (Porteus nowadays).
So if I want to give someone some data on a USB stick I carry two of them around.

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
Also, having speakers on a handheld that don't totally s_it the bed isn't bad, but why not carry some headphones for a bit of privacy (and courtesy)? Don't want to carry headphones or a headset? Then how do you expect to make use of the 3G modem for a quick chat with your friend?
Turn the volume down and use the speaker?

Originally Posted by Tigerroast View Post
For the Pyra, there's already talk about the 1st hardware upgrade in the distant future to an AMD-based SoC, which means MUCH better open-source graphics support than PowerVR. However, that's far from materializing right now.
The nice thing about the Pyra is, that its SoC is on a seperate board. So a potential upgrade would only require you to replace this one board instead of the whole device or all it's electronics.
Michael Mrozek, the head Pyra developer, recently said on a presentation he gave during OHSW [1] that such an upgrade board would probably cost 150 Euros.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkr49EnxsdM
 

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