At first, when I saw the announcement, I thought "uh thats a shame for Flatterman and the developer of SqueezeControl. Now they will have a hard time getting a return for their time and effort."
But now I have tried it on both a HTC Desire and a SE XPmini. And it cannnot compete with SqueezeCommander. IT doesn't run smooth at all, scrolling requires care to do it just right, scrolling stutters on both devices, Sync-handling doesn't benefit from the touch screen at all. But the real showstopper for me is that you cannot connect to your home server across the internet. That is my usecase 95% of the time. I cannot be bothered to turn on wifi just to access my music when at home, and when at work, it is ofcourse not an option. But I think it is a good thing that Logitech have released an Android-port of squeezeplay. And I'm sure it will be developed further. Seems kind of the obvious thing to do. Squeezeboxes run some flavour of Linux and Android is another flavour of linux, so it should be a small deal porting it. Obviously it wasn't. I think Logitech will sell some devices for having an in-house-supported controller-app. And I think Flatterman will sell some SqueezeCommanders because it is better :-) And this inspires some amount of confidence in the future of the productline. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86487 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
