I agonized over getting one of these when I was a kid. I was completely in love with the idea of having a real PC in my pocket.

Now as an adult it just seems silly. of course i never would have expected to be able to do so much with just a phone or tablet

Pandora's replacement, Pyra, is Pretty Bloody Expensive (TM), starting at EUR 550 and going up to EUR 750.

I think it's a cool device, but it's definitely not worth that much.

Especially now. When the original pandora came out, the market was different and even after the years it was delayed it was still a great machine for emulation. But now, cheap and semi-open emulation devices exist in the dozens and paying up to 10 times as much just to get linux and a keyboard is not that appealing to many people.

If they could do it for maybe <300, I think there would certainly be people considering it, but at that price (and of course the fact that it seems to never get finished) I am not sure they can rally a great community again like they could with the original device.

A community wanting such a device would maybe be better of producing a keyboard/gamepad accessory for existing hardware and hacking free software for same. The rockchip based platforms seem like a good target for example.