Re: [Sheflug] Touchscreen Atom device for £50

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sheflug-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Richards
> Sent: 09 April 2010 15:34
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> Subject: [Sheflug] Touchscreen Atom device for £50
> 
> O2 are currently offering their 'Joggler' device for £50 (awful name) -
> anyway, this connects to the mains and is an Intel Atom based
> touchscreen
> device - sort of like a picture frame but it does more: Out of the box
> it
> does stuff like internet radio, photo viewer, music, Google maps &
> calendar/clock. Note that out of the box it doesn't do email (except
> SMS
> messaging) nor have a web browser. This is actually provided by an app
> running on Linux (but you can't get past the app so you're stuck in a
> walled garden). It looks like the perfect kitchen radio!
> 

I got my Joggler (at the £50 price point) yesterday after several weeks of waiting. It is a nice device - solidly built and based, I suspect on Ubuntu (it's configured to point to an Ubuntu domain service for ntp which may be a giveaway). Couple it with mediatomb on my openSuSE server and I've got video and audio streamed in to the kitchen now. Cool!

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D

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