O2 Joggler multimedia gadget now £50 delivered, was £100

kavernchan

ajb69 wrote: »

Kepla, as it appears to be mains-powered only, the Joggler may not be too useful for you on your travels...

Got to say, I was tempted at £50, but I suspect the reason they are being sold off so cheaply is because they suffer from flaws...all the reviews seem to say nice hardware, shame about the software.

EDIT: as an internet radio, does anyone know if it uses the reciva firmware, or are you limited to the advertised 100 pre-set "pure" stations? Can it play shoutcast streams?

Drew

with a bit of simple hacking (as in editting), you can play mms and asx of ur own choice

Kepla

jamespir wrote: »

i may have to get one of these but i need to justify the 50 quid spend

I guess that if you already have a wireless network and internet at home, and need a digital photo frame and an internet radio, then it is a perfectly reasonable buy at fifty quid. If you don't need those then I guess it wouldn't be. There seem to be plenty of them for sale on e-bay at somewhat more than the fifty quid O2 now sell them for ! :eek:

pulliptears

Rumour is O2 will introduce a browser for these at some point as well. Hopefully they will concentrate on some decent apps and this could be a really useful piece of kit.

(I love gadgets, does it show? lol)

jamespir

pulliptears wrote: »

Rumour is O2 will introduce a browser for these at some point as well. Hopefully they will concentrate on some decent apps and this could be a really useful piece of kit.

(I love gadgets, does it show? lol)

i know they can be sort of "hacked " does that mean you could add a browser

Kepla

pulliptears wrote: »

Rumour is O2 will introduce a browser for these at some point as well. Hopefully they will concentrate on some decent apps and this could be a really useful piece of kit.

(I love gadgets, does it show? lol)

I have to admit that I love stuff like this too - provided that it is truely useful.
I have had a look at on-line reviews of the joggler - such as that on 'Electric Pig' and a browser doesn't seem to be mentioned yet. I might try to pick one up cheaply on e-bay but, in my experience, the price of these kinds of gadgets tends to drop shortly before a newer version is brought out with all the features which were misssing from the original. Of course, sometimes the software for the newer device can be retro-fitted to the old device - as this is what happened when Nokia brought out the N810 and I updated my N800 with the same software.
I guess we'll have to wait and see, though of course the bargain price might then disappear. If I didn't already have two 7-inch photo frames then I would probably be buying one anyway and keeping my fingers crossed for a browser soon. :beer:

kavernchan

jamespir wrote: »

i know they can be sort of "hacked " does that mean you could add a browser

at this point it is very likely a no

the joggler is completely relying on Flash and it is really difficult to produce a flash-based browser, and it takes ages to make one from raw.

pulliptears

kavernchan wrote: »

at this point it is very likely a no

the joggler is completely relying on Flash and it is really difficult to produce a flash-based browser, and it takes ages to make one from raw.

nope, a member on the HD forums has Safari running

http://www.joggler.info/forum/index.php

kavernchan

pulliptears wrote: »

nope, a member on the HD forums has Safari running

http://www.joggler.info/forum/index.php

haha are you serious ?
all the posts quoting that were laughing at him :beer:

it is impossible to get Safari running on linux at this very moment (at least its non-MacOSX native)

pulliptears

kavernchan wrote: »

haha are you serious ?
all the posts quoting that were laughing at him :beer:

it is impossible to get Safari running on linux at this very moment (at least its non-MacOSX native)

How to install safari on Ubuntu:

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-install-safari-on-ubuntu-with.html

Safari on Linux:

http://mediakey.dk/~cc/safari-on-linux/

kavernchan

pulliptears wrote: »

How to install safari on Ubuntu:

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-install-safari-on-ubuntu-with.html

Safari on Linux:

http://mediakey.dk/~cc/safari-on-linux/

at the first point i thought Wine was required, Safari wasn't linux native at the very first point anyway

EDIT- wait you were just referring to wine which makes a simulation but never a native app working under linux