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@dannyry: +1 for funny

@(Unverified): +UTTER_FAIL in the humor department.
I've had the original since over a year ago, and while it's great at its primary function (showing movies from the pathetic Watch Now selection), I've been seriously underwhelmed by the ridiculously slow pace at which they've added extra "channels", something they've been promising since last year. Sure, last week they finally added ten new ones, but they still don't even have youtube. If they finally added UPnP/AV and iTunes (at least DAAP if no video) support it would be an awesome media extender.
Would LOVE one of these!
@Anku: Well, the two main concepts they're pushing are the globally available fan shaped "main menu", and the context sensitive "fish eye" view. The global menu could be fairly easily grafted onto WM or Android, while Android 2.0 already has a similar idiom to the fish eye in the contacts, where you long press a contact and get a horizontal menu of available operations (call, text, email etc.) I don't think a whole new platform is needed to implement these key concepts. The visual sugar is higly subjective--some may like a Minority Report like minimalist interface with glowing elements, others might prefer a different look. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some copycat apps on Android and/or WM implementing some of these ideas.
Well crap, I can't even think of any applications of this right now, and I still want it. Just how nerdy am I?
So basically this is a NA(S) where you have to provide your own S. Might as well get a D-Link DNS-321 for $110 or so, which is extremely hackable and probably more versatile that this.
> "to have a fiddle with yourself"

I try to have a fiddle with myself several times a week at least.
Talk about a fluff piece. There are more words setting up the battery review than the review itself. The only info about the batteries is that they used them for "months on end" without losing capacity, and they got 300-400 flashes out of them. No info about how long they take to charge, starting and ending voltage measurements, storage loss (esp. compared to eneloops which are getting very popular), nothing.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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