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12 June 2013
Seriously challenges the iPhone 5 for features but is much much cheaper
If you search on gsmarena.com for phones with 1800 band LTE less than 120g in weight you get three hits: iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 and this phone. This phone is packed with technology. The screen is great, a really good size (bigger than the iPhone 5 but higher pixel density) and crisp and clear. The phone is light but does not feel cheap. The back cover comes off so you can change the battery. It has a microSD card slot so you can have up to 64GB of extra memory (officially only 32GB but 64 works), 72 in total (that beats the iPhone 5). My principal gripe about this phone is that it will not work as a USB stick. I connected it up via USB to my Dad's Sony TV and it was not detected as a USB drive. This was disappointing because even my old Nokia N86 let me do that. I am a bit surprised this phone does not have a bigger reputation because it is the only 4G phone that seriously challenges the iPhone 5 for being thin and light. The camera is pretty good but not as good as the camera in my Nokia N8.
17 May 2018
Old technology happily super cheap now
1 of 1 found this helpful I bought this for $28.45 which was a bargain. This is an odd device to have in this day and age. The way it works is that a little dongle about the size of two USB thumbdrives glued side by side plugs into your iPod or iPhone and transmits to the speaker. The speaker is a funny space age shaped device about the size of a slightly oversized squashed donut. The dongle has the older style 18-pin connector so it will not work with any of the Lightning connector era devices. It is a little fiddly to pair but once it pairs it works OK. I used it with an old iPhone 4S. The sound quality is not fantastic. It is about what you would expect from a flat plastic box. It comes with a bracket to put on your bike's handlebars. That too is fiddly to connect securely because it depends upon getting the supplied rubber spacers just right. However, it is achievable given about 10 minutes and once it is on securely that is it. The speaker portion then slides onto the bracket. It holds securely but is easy to remove at the end of a ride. I found that the music playback stopped occasionally during my ride. I think that may have been because the vibration caused the play/pause button to engage but I am not sure. It could also have been that the dongle got bumped while in my back pocket. The volume and skip buttons on the speaker work pretty well. Once I was out riding and the music was playing I was pretty happy. While the sound quality is not great, the reality of riding on busy city roads is that you are never going to get good clear sound and there is an argument for saying that it is better if the sound is not to engaging because you need to be listening to the surrounding noise for your own safety. When this product was first released, I think in 2010, it cost something like $180. That was a joke. Now it would be an even bigger joke because you could get a blue tooth speaker more cheaply and not have to muck around with a second device. At $28.45 though it just about adds up. Carrying the second phone is actually OK because I whip it out from time to time to snap off a photo of the ride to post on Strava. My iPhone X is mounted on my head stem and displays data from Cyclemeter so I do not want to keep taking that on and off. Using this for the music also saves the battery on the iPhone X and it's using plenty given connections to my Wahoo cadence footpod and Apple Watch. I had by 9 year old son do a blind A/B test between this speaker and the iPhone X and he preferred this marginally.
08 November 2012
Unique WIFI to S/PDIF link could not be easier to set up
I have this device installed in my car. It is attached to a toslink cable which runs to an optical / coaxial converter which then feeds into the S/PDIF input on my car head unit. I play from my iPod Touch using Airplay to the Airport Express. This means I get digital sound from the iPod Touch right into my car head unit. That is probably a very unusual usage because few people will have a car head unit that takes a S/PDIF signal. However, many people have a hifi receiver in the house which has S/PDIF input and indeed often it will be optical so that would allow cutting out the optical coaxial converter. This means with one very cheap device you can stream your music from your computer or iPhone or iPod Touch to your hifi receiver. It is better than using Airplay enabled speakers because you get to choose whatever speakers go with your hifi system. I have read in some forums that music streamed via LAN can suffer from jitter, which is probably not audible but affects the sound quality. Admittedly I have only tested this in my car but I did not find this a problem.
As to set up, I did this with my iPod Touch, in the car. I thought this would be hard but it is not. I was able to set the Airport Express up as the centre of its own little private WIFI LAN, with no internet access, just to provide the means to get the music off my iPod. I have recently had the opportunity to use the bluetooth music playing capability and the USB capability in a new Hyundai i30 and it is much worse audio quality. That may be because it has speakers etc that are not as high quality as in my Renault Laguna. However, the bluetooth actually popped and clicked, which the WIFI set up never has.
At less than $70 this is such a useful device with as far as I can tell has an absolutely unique combination of WIFI and optical S/PDIF.