MrSinatra;241520 Wrote: > > if we accept that a device can send decent audio via bluetooth to a > stereo, a car stereo, or headphones, and that it can store some music > as well, (& do AM/FM) then we are close to a product i'd like to have.
Change bluetooth to 802.11g. I don't care about AM/FM or storage. > > i do not own any of these portable deals, but i have used the new touch > ipod. it has built in wifi, and can browse the web, etc... so can some > of these other products. I see the web enough... I rarely use the web browser on my nokia... > > so whats missing? > > i do not yet know of any product that can use its wifi capability to > stream, but i am not as certain as you that none can. more > importantly, i am sure some WILL be able to, at some near future point. > its pretty much inevitable, is it not? i mean we are talking about > audio players that already have wifi, right? Where did I say that none can? My Nokia can stream via wifi if I wanted it to. > > so really, the only thing missing at that point, would be the ability > to control SS remotely via the device. but even that could be done via > the devices wifi/browser functionality. (and the touch ipod for > instance had a pretty fully featured browser). Jive... > > i'm not trying to make slim obsolete, but you could see how it could > become so pretty quick given what i wrote above. my hope is that slim > recognizes this, and starts work about some of the things i've been > suggesting for a long time. (not an ego thing, i just want to see slim > put out a dream type project) > I didn't say you are "trying to make slim obsolete"... in fact, you have fairly closely describe the jive beta toy. No real storage on it (though I guess you could use the secret SD card for that...) Slim is in this case way ahead of you and has at least dev hardware working for most of this. > > its exciting to me to hear that this jive thing will have a headphone > jack. will it also have a color screen? will it have any onboard > storage? bluetooth? yes, yes, no. (bluetooth is dumb when you have 802.11g... unless you like being borged with bluetooth phone headsets all day... I can deal with a headphone cable.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40106 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
