Paul Webster wrote: > To add to bpa's comments ... > it requires a power transformer - so, unlike a tablet, it is not very > mobile. > Joggler was than brand name used by the UK telecoms operator O2. > They were available in O2 shops for around 300GBP at launch ... or free > if you took it instead of a phone upgrade. > This lead to a lot making their way into people's home - but they were > not as successful as hoped so price drops were used to clear the stock. > Think of them as similar to a Squeezebox Touch without optical out but > with an internal speaker. > > As a parting gesture, O2/Openpeak provided a way to unlock the devices > (although the community had already achieved it). > > They became even more similar to the Touch when JiveLite was ported to > it and a replacement operating system (SqueezeOS) was made available. > I use them as both players and controllers. > > I had access to one of the very first in the UK (before the product was > announced) because the company I worked for provided some of the > back-end services that it used. > I took one in exchange for a phone upgrade and bought one or two from O2 > when the price went down a lot. Since then I think I have acquired at > least 10 more and pushed them into homes of family members ... > > Nowadays you can find them on eBay for 15-25GBP and replacing the OS > with SqueezeOS or something else is simply a matter of putting some > software on a USB stick and rebooting. > > Outside UK you might find them but under other names. The devices came > from Openpeak and they sold them to Swisscom and, I think, Cisco in USA > for home energy monitoring (I have one of those as well ... taller box > with 2 internal speakers), Verizon and Avaya (USA) for telephony.
A regular visitor to my house aged 5 can operate a Joggler in the spare room - he seems much better at it than my wife is! His choice of music is also infinitely better! He likes Jazz! VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TXNR686 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Joggler & Pi3 -> Denon RCD N8 -> Celestion F10s *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - Pi Zero+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV) & Bathroom* - SB Touch ->Denon AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s + Pioneer ceiling speakers *Guest Room* - Joggler > Topping Amp -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes Everything controlled by iPeng & Material on iOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113360 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
