Another intriguing thought about the Nokia 770--it claims support for playing mp3s and the like. So then you could run slimserver in a browser, xmms (or some such thing) pointing to the slimserver stream, headphones on your melon, and boom! you've got a pretty fancy portable player! well, at least until you get out of WiFi range...
Or...you can use your 770 to control your multiple squeezeboxen that are all synced and you've got poor man's Sonos! man, so many possibilities. now if i can just squirrel away the $$ to buy the thing... as for Opera-- It's been so long since I've used it I should back off of my original statement, but my beefs with that browser used to be: Poor Standards Support (CSS and Javascript particularly), Not Free (looks like that has changed though), Closed Source, Non-Intuitive UI (for me). I just looked at their website though and the screenshots alone tell me it's come a long way. I'm a very devout Firefox fan though, and with it's uber-flexibility I'd be a difficult sell on Opera. I would think Firefox could run as lean and mean or more so than Opera on the 770. btw- great discussion on this thread, folks. I like seeing active threads about stuff other than "my squeezebox don't work" and "DRM sucks" (it does, but that's not interesting). cheers, #!/ben adhir Wrote: > > That's exactly what I'm using now as a remote for the slimserver, to > > read my mails without starting the computer or even to surf a little > > > bit. But the screen is simply too small. I'll be glad to pay some > > money for 800x480 compared to Zaurus' 320x240. > > > When you say "too small", you mean for reading mail and surfing? > Because I think it should be more than sufficient for controlling > slimserver -- especially if someone makes a skin/theme for slimserver > which is friendly to that size screen. > > >> had for under 200 from ebay these days. The big plus is that you > get > >> a keyboard. > > > > > > Which is ok to enter URLs or quickly run some commands in the ssh > > client ;-). But I wouldn't seriously consider it to write mails. > > > But it sure would be nice to search for songs. I can't stand trying to > > key song/album/artist names on the slim remote. It's the main thing > which keeps me from using squeezebox more than I do. -- bklaas _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
