iPhone wins
by Volker Weber
Full access to all Sonos ZonePlayers, including Last.fm tag radio, with 'Love this track' and 'Ban this track' — this spells bad news for all other smartphones at vowe's magic flying circus. I'd rather have my Sonos remote in my shirt pocket ...
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Any experiences concerning battery drain so far?
No drain whatsoever. Remember, the music is not played through a controller. The controller communicates with the players over uPnP. It goes to sleep as usual and then reconnects when you wake it up. The ZonePlayers do their job without a controller active.
That IS extremely cool. Looking forward to updating my Sonos components and installing the iPhone app tonight. Love my Sonos, love my iPhone, now I need a stronger term to describe how I feel about combining them...
Am I correct in understanding the iPhone/iTouch controls the ZonPlayers directly and there is not need for a web app server running anywhere else ? aka, I could deploy nothing more than Sonos hardware and have an iPhone ? I think I am missing something (a wireless router, a PC, etc. ?)
One ZonePlayer has to be connected to your Internet router. And your iPhone needs to connect to Wi-Fi on the same subnet. So yes, one Internet router with Wi-Fi.
To play your own music, Sonos also needs access to an SMB share, with NAS being the obvious choice, but a PC or a Mac can also serve as storage.
The iPhone/iPod controller is a native app. It does not need a web server.
I'll take the E71 if you don't need it :)
I want a blackberry app.
I'm lovin' it already. Sonos keeps getting better and better.
I'd take the storm ;-)
...and this is why the iPhone wins time and time again, it's the apps. As I sit here with my S60 smartphone, watching all this functionality pass me by, knowing that it'll never come to my platform, I can convince myself that I can easily live without;
a > 2Mpixel camera
MMS
turn-by-turn navigation
> 1 day battery life
a real (E90) keyboard
cut and paste (ha, ha - that old one!)
because not only will all the partner apps to those on my desktop mac be readily available, but all this other great stuff will be too - and at a price which blows away what I have been paying on the S60 and Blackberry platforms to date!
Going to have to give it a go....
