Surprise, surprise
by Volker Weber
When the doorbell rang this morning and the person on the other end of the intercom said "Courier", I was somewhat surprised since I did not really expect anything. Even greater a surprise was that the package turned out to be from Palm containing a Tungsten C. It is currently charging on Clyde's cradle. The next days will show whether this device receives the prestigious "editor refuses to give it back" rating. :-)
Comments
Volker,
perhaps you can answer me a question regarding Tungsten for which I didn't found a final answer yet.
Is it possible to attach any kind of 20GB harddisk (f.g. as PC-Card) to a Palm?
Sure. You put the HD into a notebook and hook that up to the Tungsten. :-)
No, I don't believe this is possible. The Tungsten has four interfaces:
- the Palm universal connector
- the SD/MM card slot
- I/R
- wireless (T: Bluetooth, W: GSM, C: WLAN)
Where would you want to attach the device? I/R is out of the question. Nobody has done any work to interface the drive via SDIO or the universal connector. Finally you could potentially attach the drive via WLAN or Bluetooth. But then you would need to write an application that would move files in and out of the Palm device via FTP, SSH or (gasp) NFS.
Forgot to ask: WHY would you want to do that?
my goal is simple: I'm looking for a nice portable mp3 player with lots of storage. iPod 15G / 30G is an option, the new Neuros is another option, or the new Philips HDD100.
But the logical conclusion for me would be: a PDA is able to play mp3 and can do lots more (which I do need, too). Why not giving the PDA a 20GB harddisk, like iPod & co have, and use that as mp3 player?
Perhaps someone has developed a mp3 player with the ability to crossfade between tracks, which I really would like to have (a must-have for parties...).
So I know that one can attach a PC-Card harddisk to the iPaq. But I only know that one can attach a 5GB Toshiba hdd to the iPaq, I need at least 15G. So I wondered if Palm would support something like this.
Why carrying around two mini-computers (mp3 player and PDA), when one can do everything...?
Simple answer: Battery life. No PDA is able to power a hard disk for more than demo purposes.
If you want to run a party from a portable device, get a notebook and Tractor DJ. You will also need an external sound device that has more than two channels. Your other options is two mobile players with standard DJ equipment. Everything else is child's play . Yes, I know what I am talking about. Hint: vowe 4.0.
ok, you do have a point :-)
But I disagree with "everything else is child's play"... that depends on the kind of music. For mixing dance/hiphop/electronic style music seamless, you are right.
For running a party with german/schlager/pop/rock style music, winamp with MEXP and a crossfader does very well and enables the DJ (me) to put some tracks in the playlist and join the dancing crowd :-)
Therefore for me a mp3 player with crossfading would do the job. And I don't need to pre-hear the next track, because I know my music archive quite well.
So, thanks for the info anyway. And BTW: if you have time, have a look on www.neurosaudio.com -> a new feature-rich mp3 player from a very "open minded" company who seems to listen to their customers. With direct connect to the developers through the forums. And the Neuros has a build-in FM sender for listening to mp3 music in a car without any problems.
...and boy, I am interested what was vowe 4.0 like...
Different. :-)
The idea of using a Palm as portable MP3 Player is ok, the Tungsten C would be the wrong one though. It only plays MONO sound. Yuck!
