Category Archives: personal

Nexus One, Android Apps and my Nexus One + Sky Map experience

There are few things that are really nice about the Nexus One:

The biggest being the display.  High resolution, and OLED meaning clarity and contrast ratios were stunning – making the apps and icons look amazing.
Overall look and feel of the phone’s navigation and GUI was stellar.  However, the scrolling app tray with a “virtual conveyor [...]

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Ellen gives away the iHome Studio Series iP1 to her audience

Also gifted were the Nokia Twist 7705, a Samsung Camcorder, and naturally, the perfect iP1 companion, the iPod touch from Apple.  Oh yeah, and nice companion to other iHome models, a Tempur-Pedic mattress.
Nice.

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Six out of nine.

As I do from time to time… I search “wireless speakers” at bestbuy.com.  I was happy to see that 6 out of 9 result items were products Avnera enabled.  Aw shucks.  Read all about them here at wirelessaudioblog.

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It’s the centers of gravity, stupid.

I wanted to write a little about interface standards in consumer electronics.  My purpose here isn’t to write an exhaustive history of standards and formats – far from it, in fact – rather I want to present some background as a lead-in to some product-specific discussions that will be coming here on wab in [...]

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iHome iP1 imminent

iHome Studio Series iP1 is available for pre-order now. In production and hitting initial stores on July 1.

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Recent Best Buy coverage gives a shout out to Avnera and Rocketfish RF-WHTIB

Recent article on Best Buy’s private label brands, Insignia, Rocketfish, Init, Dynex, Geek… mentions the RF-WHTIB and Avnera:
The Richfield, Minn.-based retailer also recently debuted low-cost wireless surround-sound speakers under its Rocketfish brand. Best Buy created the $99 speakers in partnership with startup Avnera of Beaverton, Ore.
Check out full article here.

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