I would love a rockbox mp3 player On Mar 1, 2013 7:34 PM, "lee jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all! > > First of all sorry if I make any mistakes or errors in this, as I'm no > hardware or software expert! > > I've read through the ya nanonote thread and been following this for a > little while now off-and-on. > > Me personally I must say I quite like the ben nanonote overall. It has > quite a good battery life and for its size I cannot even think of > another device which is even remotely similar. Those are pretty good. > > One thought did occur to me though. If the ya nanonote is not going to > be possible how's about doing something like this for the interim > perod until a new device is made. First of all .... well, are there > any large quantities of ben nanonotes still lying about unsold at all? > Would it be worth upgrading and selling them? > > Here's the idea - and I don't know if it is at all possible. How's > about (say) doing an upgrade to the existing (unsold) ben nanonotes, > let's say do something important such as (say) removing the usb > controller chip and making it a usb host chip. Then prehaps - say > 50-50 you sell half the upgraded nanonotes as - let's say "nanonote+" > and the others you sell the boards so others can upgrade existing > nanonotes, with the screens/cases/keyboards/batteries being kept back > as spares. Good or bad idea, or not possible? > > But going back to the ya nanonote if some hardware should ever emerge > for it that would be good :) . Only thing I'd wish for is half decent > battery life and some sort of CPU which isn't horribly slow as soon as > you use it. This seems to be the problem with a lot of ARM based > devices (the other problem being mandatory propietary drivers) - take > your pick -- cheapo chinese tablets, netbooks, arm computers on a usb > stick they all have similar problems. > > It is possible though to produce some sort of usuable computer which > is reasonably good, has wifi, usb host, decent battery etc. Just look > at the open pandora. While it isn't 100% on being exactly open, it > does have all those things. I bought one of these, one of the old > 256MB early devices the first ones made a few years back now and it > proves very useful being a) small and b) long battery life. > > One last thought though. If it's impossible to go for a ya nanonote > for the future, how's about going in a different direction and making > a differernt device. How's about (say) a media player/recorder device > but which can have USB devices attached. I'm thinking of something > very roughly along the lines of the old sansa e200 music players. > Indeed thse older players run an open source program called "rockbox" > which can supplant the propietary firmware (to an extent). > > Imagine a device which could then run either rockbox or gnu/linux, but > be a tiny music player/recorder but which could then interface up via > USB (host). Such a tiny device could double up as a note taker and > music player. Anyway, just a thought going 'round my mind. > > ljones > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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