Joggler

[toasty]

I bought one of those o2 Jogglers yesterday.

Anyone else got one? I'm quite pleased with it - the calendar is great.

http://yourfamily.o2.co.uk/o2familyjoggler

-Dan

 

[EddieM]

sounds like a good idea in principle, but it's another thing to carry around, will invariably be flat or left at home. I reckon it would go the same way as any PDA I've ever bought, forgotten in a draw somewhere, or flogged on ebay. Also, someone will surely produce an app that performs this kind of thing on a smartphone, may have already been done.

 

[toasty]

No Eddie, you don't carry it around (although you can access the calendar from your smartphone / pda)

It's the size of a digi photo frame and it stays at home.

-Dan

 

[EddieM]

No Eddie, you don't carry it around (although you can access the calendar from your smartphone / pda)

It's the size of a digi photo frame and it stays at home.

-Dan

oh, probably even less use to me then.

 

[JohnD]

is it a bit like having a diary?

 

[Shytalkz]

Is the back magnetised?

 

[Space cat]

I took a quick look at that link, thinking that this might be good as a semi-portable video player, but it's only got 1Gbyte of memory! That's barely enough for two movies - and there's no mention of an SD card slot either.

What were the designers thinking! Come on you guys; memory is cheap and SD slots don't take up much space. Yes, I can put my SD cards into a USB adapter but that's a clart and a half. It's also not clear that I could play video straight through the USB port. Sorry, but it's no sale from me.

 

[satansbrother]

More techno junk for techie anoraks!

 

[toasty]

I took a quick look at that link, thinking that this might be good as a semi-portable video player, but it's only got 1Gbyte of memory!

Just stream it upnp from a media player!! The memory is redundant then. It works great!

 

[Space cat]

OK, I decided to take a closer look. The information available on that website isn't great but here's what I think I found.

1) The thing is designed primarily as a calender so it doesn't need a huge memory. That could be useful but here's a puzzle. You can enter and edit details into the calender directly from the joggler screen, so why do you have to set it up over the internet first? Is there any good reason why anybody at O2 should know - or care - that I have an electronic calender in the house? Presumably, they must establish a link to my joggler to perform the step that I can't do myself. What else are they going to use this link for? Will they be spying on me? There is no way to install Spybot S&D to find out. The hardware firewall in my router will not prevent this gadget from calling out to O2 unless I make some changes to it's setup - which is something most non-technical users will never do. I smell a large economy sized rat.

2) It's use as a music/photo/video player is severely restricted by the limited memory so maybe this function was an afterthought. You can't play files directly through the USB port. You can, as toasty says, play files that reside on another computer on your network but this is very restrictive. What if I want to take it to a friend's house - or on holiday?

All in all, I think it's a badly thought out piece of junk. As I said before, memory is cheap. This could have been a really good all-round media player but it's been crippled by shoddy design. And as for the need to set it up through the O2 website; go take a long walk off a short pier!

 

[nickso]

i prefer the original joggler, its actually useful.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/images/library/product/large/01/010122046.jpg