tamanaco;354289 Wrote: > I'm glad you're happy with iPeng. I have to assume that you're the only > person that uses your iPhone as a remote. As "home" remote a "personal" > multipurpose device on the hands of others is an accident wating to > happen. As a "personal" remote the iPhone with iPeng is fine. I assume > that you keep your phone on at all times to receive calls. This means > that you have to connect to the WiFi and Cell network simultaneously > to take full advantage of the iPhone as a remote. This connections > along with the large touch screen will drain the iPhone battery a lot > faster than the battery of a standalone SBC. My experiences using > multiple purpose devices as "home" remotes have not been uplifting. > That is the reason I mentioned in my post that using a > Smartphone/iPhone as "remote" mobile "player" made a lot more sense. > Again, if you want to use a Smartphone/iPhone as a remote, synching it > to a local or a remote hardware player using SqueezePlay would cover > the "remote" aspects when you're home or away. >
I don't care about all this dedicated/non-dedicated stuff, but I have to admit, that I prefer my iPod touch over my iPhone as a remote :-) I don't exactly understand your point about the battery lifetime. My iPhone is ALWAYS connected to my home WLAN when I'm home. Power management is good, it usually lasts for at least three days, including regular e-mail pulling, some browsing and use as a remote. My SBC lasts for one day. When I don't use them for a while, both will shut off, which means with iPeng (the skin, not the app), it will take approx. 10s until you are back connected. Which is still faster than the SBC. The iPeng app takes 2-3s. When I introduced playback through iPeng, I did a test on how long the battery lasts while doing playback, and since this is running through the browser this also included leaving the screen on and leaving WLAN on. The result (http://penguinlovesmusic.de/?p=65) shows that it runs for a bit more than 5 hours of continuous playback, I have to do that test with my SBC. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54336 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
