"Doesn't support for an external display already exist with the Media PC variant of Win XP?"
Yes, and external displays for laptops have been around for a while, too, displaying such things as battery life.
This is different - it is based on SPOT, which transmits data to SPOT devices over FM radio. So without having to open up your laptop, you can get things like calender alarms, short messages, weather, news, sports, etc.
Article crosslink here:
http://forum.spotstop.com/showthread.php?t=2114
The first poster is correct: SPOT watches are not "failures" they were simply the first devices that Microsoft could find SPOT hardware partners for. As such, although the SPOT watches haven't set the world on fire yet, they haven't actually been "failures" either. They have demonstrated something of what the SPOT concept can achieve, and that's all Microsoft wanted in its first generation of SPOT devices. Things like these external displays are simply another step in their SPOT game plan.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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"Doesn't support for an external display already exist with the Media PC variant of Win XP?"
Yes, and external displays for laptops have been around for a while, too, displaying such things as battery life.
This is different - it is based on SPOT, which transmits data to SPOT devices over FM radio. So without having to open up your laptop, you can get things like calender alarms, short messages, weather, news, sports, etc.
Article crosslink here:
http://forum.spotstop.com/showthread.php?t=2114
The first poster is correct: SPOT watches are not "failures" they were simply the first devices that Microsoft could find SPOT hardware partners for. As such, although the SPOT watches haven't set the world on fire yet, they haven't actually been "failures" either. They have demonstrated something of what the SPOT concept can achieve, and that's all Microsoft wanted in its first generation of SPOT devices. Things like these external displays are simply another step in their SPOT game plan.