azinck3 wrote: > It's a relatively expensive single-purpose device. Compare this with an > iPod touch which can do LOTS of things, including serve as a superior > Squeezebox remote. Other negatives: > > 1) It's quite slow/sluggish > 2) Abysmal battery life. You have to replace the battery on these > things every year or two, and you pretty much have to leave the > Controller in the charger at all times; if you want to carry it around > for a few hours you'll probably exhaust the battery. > 3) I had intermittent issues with lousy wifi reception with mine > 4) As has been mentioned, the actual interface is kinda hard to use. > The scroll wheel isn't terribly smooth or precise; combine that with the > sluggishness and I always felt it ended up being really fussy.
My wife likes and uses the Controller. But she's a very limited user. She picks it up from the cradle on the kitchen counter and turns the system ON and chooses either an internet radio station (stored as a favorite) or clicks on one of many Random Play Dynamic playlists for different types of music that I've saved as Favorites. So she's rarely searching for anything. After that it is mostly just using the Volume control. I agree that the controller was overpriced for what it is. I much prefer using my iphone, ipad, or SqueezePlay on my laptop, which is often in front of me at the kitchen table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97005 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
