[access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
- From: "Hussein Patwa " <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:49:18 -0000
Hi,
I use the PowerMonkey for this at the moment. I do think that battery life
will be one of the next challenges to overcome as phones become more
advanced. We've got all the bells and whistles like cameras, GPS, and now
all the apps being released, but now we need to tacle meeting the power
requirements of these. For example, I can't use my phone as my main camera
for a day. The battery goes after about two hours or less. But I did find
this nefty program that changes the phone's settings depending on the
remaining battery level which I may try out. Decreasing the screen
brightness by one level makes some difference, although I preferred the
older phones which had more of an ability to fine tune this setting - 30
setings rather than 5.
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Hussein.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Steve Nutt
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 8:12 AM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> Hi Hussein,
>
> Not quite an external battery, but you can get these emergency chargers
> that
> you plug into your phone and it keeps it going from internal
> rechargeable
> batteries inside the charger. I have a great one from Mobile Fun.
> This
> will give you an extra hour or so I reckon.
>
> All the best
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Hussein Patwa
> Sent: Thursday 31 December 2009 14:31
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> Hmm, I wonder if you can get good external batteries for phones like
> you can
> for laptops? It would at least allow you to get a whole night's use
> out of
> it with the radio. I can just about get four hours at the moment via
> GPRS.
> It's barely two for WiFi. Not complaining, just trying to think
> outside the
> box.
>
> And I'd rather skip the trailing cables for AC adapters, although I did
> think of that.
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Steve Nutt
> Sent: 31 December 2009 14:13
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> Hi,
>
> I have that already, it's called a mobile phone <Smile>.
>
> All the best
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Hussein Patwa
> Sent: Thursday 31 December 2009 11:18
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> True, and of course as it's WiFi there's nothing to stop it being
> programmable via a web interface just like any other network device
> from any
> computer. So you have the portability of the radio, accessibility of a
> TTS
> and expandibility of the web interface as well.
>
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>
> Hussein.
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> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Jackie Cairns
> Sent: 31 December 2009 09:19
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> Hi Hussein
>
> What we really need is a radio with built-in TTS. That way, whenever a
> station becomes available or changes its name, the TTS will inform, as
> opposed to using a tagging system that pre-programs in the station.
> The
> Sonus was a good radio, but this feature of tagging let it down, as
> with the
> Netgem Freeview box.
>
> I would personally love a standard Internet radio that we weren't going
> to
> pay the earth for, which would allow me to navigate the thousands of
> stations out there using a simplistic menu structure and TTS engine.
>
>
> Jackie Cairns
> Braille Specialist
> Email: jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sight and Sound Technology Ltd
> Welton House North Wing
> Summerhouse Road
> Moulton Park
> Northampton
> NN3 6WD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Hussein Patwa
> Sent: 30 December 2009 19:30
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> Hi,
>
> Not a radio but if you have a phone with WiFi, you could use
> www.moodio.fm
> to do the same. Of course you're not going to get the same battery
> life out
> of a phone as with a dedicated radio, due to it doing lots of other
> functions as well, but it's a start.
>
> It would be interesting to know what the production costs would be and
> potential uptake of a small device that essentially has an OS on board
> (maybe a derivative of Linux) with a light screen reader that could be
> used
> to navigate any menus. I'm thinking along the lines of the Nokia N900
> but
> without the phone, etc. Or maybe that's just a crazy idea and we
> should
> return to regular programming?
>
>
> _______________________________________
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>
> Kind Regards and Best Wishes,
>
> Hussein.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Damon
> Sent: 30 December 2009 19:10
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
> Hi Jackie. Thanks for your response.
>
> The reason I ask is because I have seen that one of the big
> manufactureres,
> I think it was Pure, seem to have a web portal that you become a
> subscriber
> to. I gathered the idea was that you setup all your radio stations on
> the
> web then somehow, using wifi magic, your station list jumps onto your
> wifi
> portable digital radio in the kitchen or by your bedside. And I was
> kinda
> hoping that they might be automatically assigned with physical keys at
> that
> stage.
>
> Have you looked at anything like this? Perhaps the accompanying web
> portal
> doesn't do quite what I want it to?
>
> I guess that the wep key would have to be input by a sightie come what
> may
> but, using the web as a control panel, you could load up the radio with
> your
>
> fave stations easily if someone had the nouse to do this.
>
> ...Damon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:08 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: portable wifi internet radio
>
>
> > Hi Damon
> >
> > It's going to depend on how much sight you have. I can't, for
> example,
> > access any of those radios. Unless you have sighted assistance to
> put
> > your WiFi key in, then get you to any one of the thousands of
> stations,
> > you are stuffed. These radios have so few controls and buttons on
> them
> > now that a menu structure is the dreaded swear word I'm afraid!
> >
> >
> > Jackie Cairns
> > Braille Specialist
> > Email: jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sight and Sound Technology Ltd
> > Welton House North Wing
> > Summerhouse Road
> > Moulton Park
> > Northampton
> > NN3 6WD
> > Tel: 01604 798024
> > Mob: 07887 883815
> > www.sightandsound.co.uk
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Damon
> > Sent: 30 December 2009 09:25
> > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [access-uk] portable wifi internet radio
> >
> > Hi. Is anyone using a wifi radio from Pure or one of the big
> manufacturers
>
> > with any degree of success?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ...Damon
> >
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