andynormancx;355547 Wrote: > Have you played with an iPhone or Touch though ? It sounds like you > haven't. > > The good news is that for mainly list based apps, like the Squeezebox > apps are going to be, you only need one hand. Your beer can stay safely > in your other hand. > > The iPhone interface really is like no other remote, phone or mp3 > player interface (though I haven't played with the HTC Touch stuff > much, which I imagine has borrowed some bits). You really can hold it > in one hand and navigate with your thumb. > > You only need to resort to a second hand when typing text, clicking on > links in webpages or if you want fine control of zooming in and out of > web pages and images. > > I take your point on the lack of physical buttons for things like > volume and track skipping and I doubt the apps will be able to hijack > the iPhones own volume buttons unfortunately. > > I know I sound like a complete Apple fanboy, but I'm not. I use the > best tool that I can find for the job in hand. For my servers that is > Linux, for my .net development machines that is Windows, for my > phone/pda/quick web browser/games machine/portable mp3 player/emailer > that is the iPhone. When we have a native iPhone app I imagine it will > also take over most of my Squeezebox controlling tasks too.
I agree entirely with this, the iPhone is an excellent tool for the above and I look forward to having a native app for my Duet and hopefully a Boom. I think I would mainly use it for the Boom and use it to control in the bedroom and the Duet controller in the living room. -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54336 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
