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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: JimH on April 27, 2007, 04:19:31 pm
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We just bought a nifty new device for testing with MC12. It's called the N100 Loox from Fujitsu. I believe that some of the technology came from a company called Navigon. They've been sold in Europe for almost a year and Amazon just started to sell them. Just under $500.
It's a handheld GPS with a nice media player built in. It's small -- smaller than any other GPS I've used or seen. It's more the size of a cell phone with a nice rounded back.
It comes with a 2GB Micro SD memory card.
The good news is that MC12 can sync to it. It has a USB connection to a PC and shows up as a storage device. I can drag photos onto it and play them. I can drag APE files to it, and with conversion to MP3, the media player on the device finds them and plays them.
First impression is very positive.
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And for the curious out there......
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/mobile/handhelds/pocket_loox_n100.html
It would be comforting if F-S had a public statement regarding WM6 or the availability of North American mapping options.
Interesting that just as Dell and HP/Compaq (WindowsMediaPlayerMobile v9 and GSPlayer) and one or two others are quitting the non-cell-phone Winderz Mobile PDA business Fujitsu-Siemens is getting back in and Lenovo has shown advanced prototypes of their own.
I'm using a Creative Zen Nano and an iPaq 3955 as my mobile players. Had a HP 6315 SmartPhone for a while but it was neither smart or a very good phone. Just now I'm waiting for my PIM software to support contact/calendar sync to Symbian phones (Nokia and Sony-Ericsson) and will try their converged devices and media players again.
I may also go back to the simplest cell phone I can find and stay with the Creative Zen Nano or update to an iRiver player. Nice to have a tiny player not much bigger than the AA or AAA battery it uses......