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Just got me one of these as they are flogging them half price for a couple of weeks (think 02 have had trouble flogging them)

It's brilliant! It is marketed as a calender, but it also does media streaming. now I can get my music/vids etc whilst i'm in the kitchen :)

If you like your gadgets have a look at them. be quick though as they go back up to £100 soon.

 

Also for the geeks out there apparently you can hack it to make it run linux :D

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Kinda cool, but I have a 99p calendar and an iPhone to listen to music in the bath and anywhere else.

 

It might be more useful if it wasn't just me, the wife and a 1 year old. For families with older kids I can see it being useful

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has anybody hacked one yet??

 

Been scanning the 'hackthejoggler' blog and while a number of people claim to have done something with both Linux and Android it all seems to go a bit cold after statements like yep we have managed to get a loader on to it......

 

What would be really cool is if you could get XMBC to load on it, that would do the full gui and everything and be able to make easy use of the touchscreen!!!!

All you would need then is a small browser add in and you are away!!!

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rob - i found this while browsing Hack the ... its still a little light of info but looks promising. the weird thing to me is that they are running ubuntu netbook edition which i thought was only for atom based machines which sounds overkill for this device.

 

i am currently playing with wee embedded linux devices reading data form weather stations and uploading it to a website and am planning to try the same on the joggler but with a nice UI. have ordered 1 so i can try it out

 

 

edit - looks like it is running an atom processor and a dual core to boot... not bad at all for 50 quid provided i can get it running!

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rob - i found this while browsing Hack the ... its still a little light of info but looks promising. the weird thing to me is that they are running ubuntu netbook edition which i thought was only for atom based machines which sounds overkill for this device.

 

i am currently playing with wee embedded linux devices reading data form weather stations and uploading it to a website and am planning to try the same on the joggler but with a nice UI. have ordered 1 so i can try it out

 

 

edit - looks like it is running an atom processor and a dual core to boot... not bad at all for 50 quid provided i can get it running!

 

At £50 that was pretty ,much my thoughts too!!!

smoo Quantum Jedi master

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Also O2 have launched a joggler app store. It says that Youtube and Google maps will be available, so maybe a web browser as well...

I'm very tempted, though one minus point is it does not have batteries.

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Is there any monthly fee, or is it a PAYG type thing?

Mine has no contract or PAYG. It has 50 free texts a month to my o2 phone to remind me of stuff.

you can pay for more texts, i think it can be either payg or ~£7 bolt on for an existing mobile contract

I'm hoping they get some more stuff in the app store soon, on a dozen things there so far.

The music streaming is pretty cool, but sometimes it can be a little slow opening folders to play music.

I'm still happy for £50

oc1rob posting Legend

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Mine arrived yesterday... it a propper nice piece of hardware, but apps are seriously limited, downloaded all of them just because they are free.... but suspect there will be several delitions!!!

Its a shame that I cant map it to my NAS directly.. still trying to sort out getting it to talk to my pc, and I'm hoping that by sharing the NAS through there it will reach my libraries.

 

this has serious potential for being Ipad..ish for £50

 

If someone could hack it to give 8 or so basic functions on either linux or android it would be a killer bit of kit.

 

Functions:

Picture player

Movie player

Music Player

Browser

Web Radio

YouTube access

Clock/alarm

 

all using the touch screen only once loaded.

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oc1rob posting Legend

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I'm holding out messing with mine till the gurus get it sorted either as ubuntu or android fully sorted with full touch screen nav. My pref would be android with full acess to the apps store.

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There is a Netbook Linux full touchscreen, i have openpeaked my one to get other apps on, I.e facebook and such, not bad for pirce and fucnitionality.

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running ubuntu netbook remix on mine. seems pretty sluggish - not sure if thats at least in part due to my usb stick

 

edit - im now running standard ubuntu using the image posted on http://www.joggler.info/forum/index.php Seems to run a bit nicer and although the interface maybe isnt as suitable for the touchscreen intereface as the netbook remix i have to say i prefer it

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