Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 22

Buy one in a second

My two points:
- An opensource SDK so that people can write their own applications to control it.
- International Shipping!!!

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Posts: 406

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Originally posted by DBrown

BTW, there have been more than 700 reads of this message thread. PLEASE, even if you have no interest in radio on your Visor, respond anyway. It's just as useful to know what percentage of visor owners DON'T want a radio as those who do.

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location:
Posts: 49

First off, I like the idea of raidio. Radio provides access to local talk shows, news and random assortment of music based on a specific FM/AM station.

Here is a statement made in an article in June of 2000:

Springboard modules for the Handspring Visor finally ship... soon.
pc expo story
Spring Forward

Audio modules were popular too. Singapore Shinei Sangyo showed off two such devices: my-Raydio, a $50 FM-radio with 24 preset stations, an auto-scan feature, bass control, and of course, an audio out; and the $70 my-Vox, a digital voice-recorder with voice dictation capabilities and up to eight minutes of recording time. Both will be available in July.

Below is the link to the full article:
http://www.techtv.com/print/story/0,23102,2595801,00.html

In the past I have found information about this module on their web site, although I just tried today and I couldn't view product offerings and specs.

Its been 8 months since the announcement and still no ship date. What's taking so long? It's a radio, you can buy radios every day. Why can't someone design a simple radio to utilize the Springboard slot? We have modems (wired/wireless), mp3 players, GPS, and phones but no radio. Oh well.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: New York, New York, USA
Posts: 27

T [/B][/QUOTE]

You make a good point. Most radios I've had needed a decent antenna to get good reception. My "stroke of genious" was to design the thing to use an included special stylus as an antenna. The stylus slot is obviously the best place to store such a thing. When you want to use the radio, you "snap" (no tedious screwing in or out) the stylus into a jack on the radio module to become the antenna.

Whatcha think?

Dave ;-) [/B][/QUOTE]

That's a great idea, except what would one write with on the visor while listening to the radio.
Don't quit your day job.

Registered: Nov 2000
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 201

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Midwest
Posts: 232

Hmmm... "What do you write with when listening to the radio?"


I guess you'll have to buy my ACME Quantum Stylus Duplicator. With it your stylus can be in two places at once. $49.95, free shipping. Please allow 2 to 3 years once your payment has been cashed.

Dave

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Registered: Jun 2000
Location:
Posts: 594

1,000 replies so far, SB developers.
Gotta keep the price low, though.
B/c the day a TV/Radio tuner comes out, w/out a competitive price...

Registered: Dec 2000
Location:
Posts: 8

1) buy one in a second

Especially with the ability to listen to AM. I don't much care about FM anyway.

I only have 2 stations to mention:

1) News - 24 hour, around the clock news.

2) Traffic - In Chicago, IDOT broadcasts 24-hour traffic information on 530 and 1610 AM. Very useful, even when I'm not in the car.

Thomas

Registered: Dec 2000
Location:
Posts: 12

Definitely!!!

If it has AM in addition to FM, I would definitely get it. NOAA weather would be a plus.
It should have controls from the Visor (presets etc...)

That's my $.02

phurwitz

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 638

Re: Definitely!!!

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Originally posted by phurwitz
If it has AM in addition to FM, I would definitely get it. NOAA weather would be a plus.
It should have controls from the Visor (presets etc...)

That's my $.02

phurwitz

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 81

I've already said that I'd buy it in a second, but I thought of something else that might be useful. You could add the song "snapshot" functionality that has started showing up in small keychain devices. That's the idea that given the fact that you know what station you were listening to and what time you were listening to it, you could theoretically look at a radio station's play list and figure out who sings the song in question, what it's title is, or what CD it can be found on. This should be a pretty simple addition to the built in software. Just my 2 cents!

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Posts: 406

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Originally posted by LuckyChuck
I've already said that I'd buy it in a second, but I thought of something else that might be useful. You could add the song "snapshot" functionality that has started showing up in small keychain devices. That's the idea that given the fact that you know what station you were listening to and what time you were listening to it, you could theoretically look at a radio station's play list and figure out who sings the song in question, what it's title is, or what CD it can be found on. This should be a pretty simple addition to the built in software. Just my 2 cents!

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Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

try http://www.starcd.com

they have a pqa for those of you with wireless capability!

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Midwest
Posts: 232

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Originally posted by Hoser_in_USA
try http://www.starcd.com

they have a pqa for those of you with wireless capability!

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Manchester, England
Posts: 83

A) buy 1 in a sec

As said b4, it would be nice to have it with extra memory for ebooks and stuff =)

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Midwest
Posts: 232

How much RAM does a RADIO need?

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Originally posted by meitsjustme
As said b4, it would be nice to have it with extra memory for ebooks and stuff =)

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: NC, Indiana
Posts: 465

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You could add the song "snapshot" functionality that has started showing up in small keychain devices.

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Yes but what would we all use for keychain holders if we lost our Emarkers (does anyone else make these)? I knew of a free one that is out of business now and all I know of now is the Sony E-Marker). I almost bought it, if it were just $5 cheaper... I would be even more willed to buy it if this springboard had that capability.

Also, in regard to earlier in the thread someone saying there's no point in the convergence, I have this to add. Sadly enough many people don't have springboards. Some have backup modules but that's not really meant to be kept in the springport all the time. So this would be a good replacement for the dummy cartridge. A little bit of self assurance that we didn't go Handspring just for the 5 fruity flavors. I just want something to shove in that slot personally, and besides I would love having two devices in one because I already have to carry enough small electronics around! This is how many people justify spending $200+ on an mp3 player, and we're only talking $30 here!

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location:
Posts: 49

Check out this link.
http://www.i-vox.com/my-raydio.htm

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 1429

All these features are going to make it more that $50. Remebr palm is simplicity, and the Visor is expansion. Put those together you have Simple Expansion. When you want all thes e features the price is going to be $150, and than you cmplain about it being so costly! SIMPLICITY!

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: NC, Indiana
Posts: 465

The marking thing shouldn't add anything to it. Infact, if the software allowed for plugins someone else could develop it w/o bothering the developer with it. Mmmm simplicity.

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