We have bad news and good news.
The bad news is that we require four more weeks to ship the next batch due to delayed key components. Our original target schedule was 10 May, but it will be delayed a couple of more weeks.
As everyone knows by now, the industry still needs more time to recover from broken component supply chains due to the COVID-19 pandemic problem.
According to our vendors, the last components will be ready in the middle of May, and we can start our production process from 20 May. We plan to ship the OGA from 25 May at the earliest.
We are sorry for the bad news and will keep updating the schedule and status weekly.
The good news is that we have applied a few minor changes to improve usability:
<1> The power input port has changed to a USB Type-C connector.
This allows common smartphone chargers and cables to be used. However, there are a few limitations.
The Type-C port is not a fully featured USB-PD (Power Delivery) protocol interface. There is no USB data communication feature either. It is just a “dumb” power input used for battery charging only.
Additionally, one or two pins of the 10pin GPIO port may be obstructed when charging the device.
<2> A 802.11n SDIO WiFi module has been mounted on the PCB by default.
You can download ROMs via the wireless connection, and multi-player features would be feasible sometime in the future without requiring an external USB WiFi dongle.
Tested throughput with the “iperf” tool was about 40~50Mbps and SMB/NFS file transfer speed was around 4~6MiB/s.
<3> L2 and R2 shoulder buttons added.
Many users requested it, and we added it. It is hoped that many PSX game fans will enjoy it. We are aware the shape of the new L2 and R2 buttons is not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.
<4> A new shell case color is available.
There will be two options for shell cases: Aura Black and Clear White. Both shells are made with transparent resins allowing the status LEDs to be visible on the back side.
The color of the PCB also changed to black from white.
Let's look into the new PCB samples.
There are two additional tact switches on the edge side for L2 and R2 buttons.

You can find the USB Type-C connector and the SDIO WiFi module easily.

We will call this new gadget ODROID-Go Advance Black Edition or OGA-BE if there are no other good names when we start selling in late May.

Enjoy some pictures.
Aura Black


Clear White


Unfortunately, there is one additional piece of bad news. The price increased to $59 from $55 due to the built-in WiFi connectivity and additional buttons. We hope a $4 increase is acceptable for customers.
Linux device drivers for the SDIO WiFi module and the L2/R2 buttons are already included in our Kernel source repo.
A new Ubuntu 20.04 based OS image including this support will be provided by @crashoverride in the middle of May hopefully.
The new OS image and Kernel will be fully compatible with the original OGA.