Jack Coates Wrote:
wow, I've never seen a lockup on my wife's mini-ipod or my iriver.
We're
not especially careful... in fact, hers is on pause and plugged in most
of the time, rather than ever being properly shut down.
--
Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture...
I'm still waiting for the guy to chime in who built his portable
Squeezebox solution.
A Squeezebox running on dry cell batteries with a wireless ethernet
connection to a laptop running Slimserver. All stuffed into a backpack
so that he could get 2-3 hours of optimal listening enjoyment from his
I'd also be interested in anything Slim could come up with in the
handheld market. Until then however, I can strongly recommend the Rio
Karma to the typical Slim customer. Some points:
* 20gb
* ~16 hour battery life
* Supports flac, vorbis, mp3, wma
* Fully parametric 5 band EQ
* Fantastic sound
Quoting radish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd also be interested in anything Slim could come up with in the
handheld market. Until then however, I can strongly recommend the Rio
Karma to the typical Slim customer. Some points:
It's approaching EOL (sadly) but that means there are some excellent
I am interested in a portable device but have not ventured with any
current products. Ipods are sexy but expensive a way too little battery
life (8 or so hours).
For me, I'd be looking for huge battery life - at least 20 hours
preferably a lot more a large capacity. I guess any such potential
Why would Slim Devices even be interested in entering this crowded
market? Portable devices have little in common with the Squeezebox, so
there's very little technology for them leverage against the dozens of
companies already flooding the field.
--
JJZolx
JJ
JJZolx Wrote:
Why would Slim Devices even be interested in entering this crowded
market? Portable devices have little in common with the Squeezebox, so
there's very little technology for them leverage against the dozens of
companies already flooding the field.
Plus, the real competitive
, or a pony.
Can you hear me now?
-Dreamer
Subject: [slim] Re: Any chance of SlimDevices making a portable player?
Why would Slim Devices even be interested in entering this crowded
market? Portable devices have little in common with the Squeezebox, so
there's very little technology for them leverage
kdf Wrote:
I'd certainly second that. It does need a way to kill the power,
however, for
those times when you make a sudden movement and send the hard drive
into
lockup. So far, I can only hope it eventually gets unlocked, or wait
for the
battery to run down.
Tried a reset? That has
kdf wrote:
Quoting radish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd also be interested in anything Slim could come up with in the
handheld market. Until then however, I can strongly recommend the Rio
Karma to the typical Slim customer. Some points:
It's approaching EOL (sadly) but that means there are some
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