I am returning from South Carolina today and was very happy to have access to my Slingbox to watch the Washington Redskins yesterday afternoon (unfortunately they lost). I was able to connect my laptop to a 27" Samsung LCD TV. The quality was as good as standard definition television, although SlingPlayer had some rendering issues during fast play action. The action was viewable but a bit out of focus. I am sure having my Verizon FIOS 2Mbps upload at home, helped. The bottleneck was probably the DSL connection my PC was attached to.
I used my iPhone quite a bit over the last week. It touch screen is addictive and fun to use. Apple has a ways to go to provide more functionality and applications, but they have a great start. My biggest complaint (other than the lack of Exchange ActiveSync) is the Bluetooth stack (funny ,early Windows Mobile stack were lacking as well). Apple really needs to provide the A2DP profile for stereo headphones, they also need to provide a filtering mechanism for transferring contacts to an in car Bluetooth phone adapter, as well as caller id and signal data. With the upcoming release of the iPod Touch on the 28th, it will be interesting to see what updates are provided to the iPhone.
My review of Ilium ListPro 5.0 has been published on pocketnow.com here.
This week:
- Finnish my review of the Etymotic ety8 Bluetooth headphones.
- Continue my comparison of Windows Live Search and Google Maps for Windows Mobile.
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