Paul_B;254895 Wrote: > But at £220 that is too close to the selling price of an iPod Touch > 16GB.
I was on the beta programme and I must admit, this mirrors my thoughts. It's a potentially OK piece of kit, but at the suggested price, I would spring for the iTouch, it can even do VoIP calls now on top of having WiFi and an SDK for apps and the interface is much, much better than the new controller. OK, it's not a dedicated controller for the Squeezebox, so not a valid comparison perhaps, but given £300 to spend today, I would put it there, not on a Squeezebox controller. The scroll wheel on the beta controller is bad and the buttons are in the wrong places. It's big, has too many options and is frustrating to use. I'm also disappointed that the new receiver is lower spec than the old Squeezebox. I do feel slightly unfaithful for saying this though, I did get a controller as part of the beta programme, for which I am grateful for being given the chance, and perhaps it's living through that sometimes painful process that has tainted me, but my feeling right now is that the interface is still not good enough. It's clunky, unreliable and slow. My wife refuses to use it and has gone back to the old remote. I struggle on, but end up with the old remote most times - or sadly, using an Apple remote with Front Row on a MacBook Pro that is damn near silent. It obviously costs a lot more, but it is much more usable for me. Perhaps I should wait for product before further comment, but I feel it really needs to be a whole lot slicker - and I agree with the poster who said that the fact that it is full of unused, potentially exciting hardware is not a plus point. If I buy a phone and am told that it has great GPS, but I can't use it yet until I write some software for it, that doesn't make it a bargain. It maybe exciting for geeks, but for consumers it's a complete misfire. Gut reaction - a missed opportunity that won't steal many Sonos sales. The software isn't finished, it's still trying to appeal to the geeks and the new hardware should be better than the old, not "good" as was quoted elsewhere. Slim is meant to be the audiophile player vendor. -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41805
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