Monday, December 18, 2006
BluOnyx Bluetooth Media Streamer for Mobile Devices
Posted by Darius Wey in "HARDWARE" @ 05:30 AM
"So the portable media usage scenario we hear most about around these parts looks a little something like this: user has cellphone, user has portable media device, user wishes portable media device could be integrated into cellphone so user only needs to take with them one device. Enter, oddly, Agere's new oxymoronically named BluOnyx device. By way of Bluetooth, SD card, or USB, users load up their BluOnyx -- which, conceptually, could come with between 1 and 40GB of space, would be roughly 85 x 54 x 6 or 15mm, and cost between $100 and $250 -- with content, which is in turn wirelessly transferred via Bluetooth to the user's cellphone for playback, effectively reducing the devices carried from two to, um, two."
Well, truth be told, this does have value for all our Bluetooth-touting Pocket PCs and Smartphones; on the other hand, we can think of plenty of alternatives (namely, a dedicated media player such as the iPod or Zune). Depending on what the media junkie in you demands, this is either a valuable accessory or just another "Why? Because I Can!" contraption? You decide.
Well, truth be told, this does have value for all our Bluetooth-touting Pocket PCs and Smartphones; on the other hand, we can think of plenty of alternatives (namely, a dedicated media player such as the iPod or Zune). Depending on what the media junkie in you demands, this is either a valuable accessory or just another "Why? Because I Can!" contraption? You decide.
