I'm not an industrial designer but I always thought that the attached wal-wart and the thick RCA cords running from the back were a dead give away as far as portability goes.
I remember very clearly the two times that my Nokia 9210's display died after just a one meter drop. I agree that that's a bad thing for a portable device, but really, the SB3 isn't portable. It would be nice it it were more sturdy though, there's always a risk that it will fall off a table or something... Regards, Peter On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:58:04 -0700, "mitip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I may break things but I also design them, I argue if you haven't broken > something you can't tell how strong it is! An expensive approach I > know. As a designer and English contemporary of Jonathan Ive, of Apple > design notoriety, I can see the iPod influence in the design of the SB3. > But there is the rub, the 'product semantics' of an iPod match its use; > it looks portable because it is portable. > I got into a habit of carrying my SB3 around. In the lounge for hifi, > in the bedroom for late night, in the workshop as background music. But > if you carry something you drop it, I did and the display gently hissed > away its gas and the display stopped working. The SB3 is small, looks > portable, has a nice leg at the back to carry it, is reminiscent of a > portable iPod, almost encourages carrying but, as I can confirm, it not > portable because it cannot survive the typical drop test that a portable > object like my cell phone has to. A drop of 4 feet onto carpet killed > the display. > Sorry Slimpeople, I like the appearance of SB3 but it is unsuitable. > Either give it the semantics/feel of a fixed item, as the old SB1 (it > doe not have to look like a 70s alarm clock though) or accept that the > display is too fragile and revert to LCD (which would allow you to > knock £50 ($70!) off the price. > > > -- > mitip > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > mitip's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5260 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23509 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
