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#250429 - 25/02/2005 00:06 Lame eBay auction of the day.
Waterman981 old hand Registered: 14/02/2002 Posts: 804 Loc: Salt Lake City, UT	MPTRONIX MUZICVAULT My favorite part: Quote: If you are considering a Kenwood Music Keg, EMPEG Reo, Rockford Omnifi, Phatnoise Phatbox, or Neo car player then you owe it to yourself to consider the flexibility a PDA will allow when browsing a large hard disk with thousands of files. The user interface will let you quickly get to any band or song you want. The simple software update feature a PDA has also allows us or 3rd party programmers to add new user interface functions and improvements over time. _________________________ -Michael #040103696 on a shelf Mk2a - 90 GB - Red - Illuminated buttons
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#250430 - 25/02/2005 00:25 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: Waterman981]
tonyc carpal tunnel Registered: 27/06/1999 Posts: 7058 Loc: Pittsburgh, PA	Quote: The user interface will let you quickly get to any band or song you want ..while driving off the road as you try to hit little buttons on a PDA screen while you're driving. Somewhere, though, somebody is reading that auction and going "this guy has a point! I really do want to browse my MP3 collection with a PDA in the car!" _________________________ - Tony C my empeg stuff
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#250431 - 25/02/2005 14:06 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: tonyc]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Really. Sometimes I have a hard time hitting the physical buttons on the empeg due to car bumpiness. I can't imagine what trying to poke a PDA screen with one hand would be like. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#250432 - 26/02/2005 19:56 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: Waterman981]
benjammin member Registered: 11/08/2002 Posts: 188 Loc: Champaign, IL	I agree. I have a jeep and pushing the buttons needs to be "see free". I can't be looking for where my fingers are, I have to be able to feel what I'm doing while I'm driving. Ultimately, It's a viable piece for the market if someone designs a nice control head for it. Cool Toy - but not what I could consider complete...
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#250433 - 03/03/2005 15:01 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: wfaulk]
furtive old hand Registered: 14/08/2001 Posts: 886 Loc: London, UK	Quote: Really. Sometimes I have a hard time hitting the physical buttons on the empeg due to car bumpiness. I can't imagine what trying to poke a PDA screen with one hand would be like. I manage ok poking my PDA screen when running TomTom3 GPS software _________________________ Mk2a RioCar 120Gb - now sold to the owner of my old car Rio Karma - now on ebay...
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#250434 - 03/03/2005 15:08 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: wfaulk]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	I use TomTom Navigator on my Pocket PC, in a mount. It is easy to navigate around the basic navigation UI, because all the buttons are bigger than a finger tip. The trick is to rest a couple of fingers on the side of the mount and then press the button with another finger. If it wasn't in a mount it would be extremely dangerous to use. Looking at the Musicvaultz's UI everything looks far too small to be useful. They need to dump the standard Palm UI widgets and think a little more about the control system. _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#250435 - 03/03/2005 15:10 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: andy]
CrackersMcCheese pooh-bah Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2489	My 'mount' consists of 2 pieces of velcro! Works well with the Navman bluetooth receiver.
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#250436 - 03/03/2005 16:24 PDA/GPS [Re: andy]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14494 Loc: Canada	I recently got a Zire72 (PalmOS) PDA, and have a bluetooth GPSR on order for use with it. The mapopolis mapping software seems adequate -- I used the 9-day free-trial maps, and last night paid the fee for the whole shebang (Canada and Bushland). I'm hoping to jury rig a mounting system for the PDA so I can fingerprint the screen while driving. Mapopolis also includes auto-routing and voice prompts etc.. as well as maps of much of Europe. Looks useful. Oddly enough, there are only 5 bytes different between their demo maps and the paid maps -- identical file sizes, too. Cheers
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#250437 - 18/03/2005 01:07 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: wfaulk]
elph new poster Registered: 22/01/2002 Posts: 27	Quote: Really. Sometimes I have a hard time hitting the physical buttons on the empeg due to car bumpiness. I can't imagine what trying to poke a PDA screen with one hand would be like. Who needs one hand for driving? Just use the auto-pilot addon for your empeg...
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#250438 - 13/04/2005 16:23 Re: Lame eBay auction of the day. [Re: Waterman981]
Jerz addict Registered: 13/07/2002 Posts: 634 Loc: Jesusland	Well, (I know old thread) I have a similar setup with my empeg since I didn't want to rip out the factory stereo in the landrover I use an mlord dock in the back for the empeg, a wireless access point and stream via 802.11 to my hp6315 which is my cell phone also. As long as I stick with predefined playlists I'm fine, if I'm browsing the empeg via the hijack web page I'd best pull over. Jerz Attachments 253688-pp-default.gif (332 downloads) Edited by Jerz (13/04/2005 16:25)
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