RAmos unveils its Skynet-approved Terminator T12 media player
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted April 5th 2009 1:19AM
posted April 5th 2009 1:19AM
Ah, RAmos -- you know what the people want, and you just keep crankin' 'em out. A worthy successor to the T10, the T9, and the T8, the Terminator T12 switches things up a bit with a thumb wheel for (hopefully) improved navigation over its touchscreen-centric brethren. And the specs seem more than sufficient, including a Rockchip RK2806 (1024 x 720) chipset, 5-inch display, Wolfson WM8988 audio, and TV out. Storage and price have yet to be announced, but you'll know as soon as we do. Since this is a tie-in for the upcoming Terminator movie, we expect to see some suitably gaudy / awesome promo material coming down the pike. You hear that, RAmos?
[Via The Gadget Site]
[Via The Gadget Site]
I am quite surprised I haven't heard of this brand before. The wheel seems unimaginative, though. Like something that was used to control volume on cassette players, DECADES ago.
Also, if I'm not mistaken it seems that the controls and the screen are on different sides of the device. That means that the learning curve for the ergonomics of this device will be pretty annoying.
Creative has this scroll wheel in a lot of their mp3 players. The Nomad Jukebox 2 had the wheel that would click down or up but spring right back while letting you press the wheel in to select. This meant that you would have to keep pressing up or down or hold up or down to scroll, which was slow and innacurate. The Nomad Jukebox 3's wheel, however, actually scrolled up and down, which made scrolling through large lists much easier and accurate. If the T12 has the latter style of wheel then that could certainly be a boon.
Er... it has a touchscreen too, a five inch one by the look of the specs sheet?
What did you want, a complete set of navigation buttons? It's a goddamn MP3 player, its got a touchscreen for navigation, and the scroll wheel would be fantastic for going through long lists.
800x280?
I don't think so.
Didn't the latest Ramos player also have a feature where it could see anything attached to it via usb2.0 as a external drive, thus allowing you to rip movies and songs from other poeples players? That is definitely what people want. If I had one with that ability I would carry around a small bag with a ipod connector, zune connector, mini usb, etc... just in case.
800 x 480.
RAmos seems to be pumping out a new model every month. Same with their competitors Ainol and Onda. Why buy one when you know it will be obsolete next week?
The translated page this article links too keeps mentioning "e-book". All of these devices are able to read .txt files, but until now that's all they could do. If RAmos puts a pdf / html / rtf book reader on their device, it might make things a bit more interesting.
Hooray for thumb wheels!
Hey, at least they've got one thing going for them... The Wireless connection on/off button isn't located on the front where you can continuously press it while it's on your lap.... That's a win right?
A Christian Bale special edition player is in the works. The start-up sound goes "Ah-da-duh-duh-duh-duh" right before it calls you a fucking amateur.
You sir, have just won yourself some internets. Use them wisely :)
I went through their site and it has NO reference whatsoever of approval from Skynet.
I don't understand, 1024 x 720 chipset? What does this mean? I guess ill just assume it's a translation error because last time i checked processors didn't have resolutions.
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I'd like to know where you can actually buy any of these Ramos items. I'd really like to get the T10, anybody know where they can be purchased from? I live in the states.
check ebay
That's interesting...that's f****** interesting
At least we appear to still be a number of years away from the T1000.
Testing
you can get the T10 at www.allpmp.com but it's backordered right now.
ramos t12 will be released recentlly
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Thx wing36, I bought it in allpmp.com and got it in 3 days with EMS.