It’s not finally here, yet miners at Ars Technica have managed to sneak into what’s actually cooking in the Pandora’s Box. Reporting therefore, the year 2009 as the year that sees the coming of an ultimate open-source gaming console, what’ll set the market leaders Play Station Portable and Nintendo DS into a competitive run for the money.

How far in actuality will the open-source console manage to market its value is far beyond comprehension yet, for a lot needs to be done before the unit is worth hitting the stores. Stuffed with an ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux, the handheld is a full keyboard with dual analog stick layout on a 4.3-inch touchscreen LCD.

Gaming is glooming unless the console is backed well with battery, accordingly along with WiFi, Bluetooth and a USB 2.0 port, the Pandora console’s battery is expected to last for good ten hours on a single battery. Nothing specific on the release date, so it’s only a wait stretched longer.

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