Sony just appear the Birr (or as they anxiety it, the "dash") is a crazy aggregation of what we anticipate of as a book with a actor accoutrement accessory like the Chumby. It looks badass. Update: Hands-on!
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It's appealing interesting—not just a slab like a behemothic iphone, but an angled awning that stands upright, array of like a Chumby with the ability of a accurate tablet. Here are some added data on the tablet.
Update: So I got to play about with the Dash, and it's not bad at all—but it's about advancing how abundant it's just a "Sony Chumby"—in fact, afterwards allurement the reps, we've accepted that it in fact runs a somewhat flashier adaptation of Chumby OS. The awning is bigger and bigger than the Chumby One, and it accept to accept a little heftier processor to be able to handle full-screen alive video. It works about absolutely like the Chumby (makes sense, back it runs the aforementioned OS)—it's got a homescreen with a anxiety and some basal advice like weather, in which a ample alternating screenshot progresses through your apps (weather, Facebook, Twitter, NYTimes headlines, email, music, whatever). You tap on the app you wish if it's pictured, and it opens up. It retains Chumby's best features, like getting able to set just about annihilation as an anxiety (music, Pandora, and now YouTube, if for some acumen you wish that), although it is decidedly bigger. I like it, but it doesn't accept any of the best cutesy agreeableness of the Chumby, instead searching big (comparatively), black, sleek, and, well, Sony. It costs $200.
SONY'S NEW "DASHTM" PERSONAL INTERNET VIEWER OFFERS PERSONALIZED WEB EXPERIENCE AT A GLANCE
New artefact provides burning admission to news, weather, Internet radio and added applications
LAS VEGAS (CES Booth #14200), Jan. 6, 2010 –Sony accepted its charge to accouterment consumers with avant-garde networked articles with the accession of the new dash™ Claimed Internet Viewer.
Featuring a active 7-inch blush blow awning (measured diagonally) and admission to over 1,000 chargeless Internet apps, including news, calendars, weather, sports, amusing networking and more, birr utilizes an absolute home wireless affiliation to continuously bear Internet agreeable to its viewers.
"In today's affiliated world, Sony continues to attending for means to advice enhance consumers' ball adventures throughout the home" said Brennan Mullin, Sony Electronics' chief carnality admiral of the claimed imaging and audio business. "dash empowers consumers with a fun, alternate way to break affiliated with their news, entertainment, interests and ultimately, their lives."
By bundling admired pieces of the Internet together, birr provides consistently fresh, alone agreeable at a glance. The new artefact offers chargeless admission to all apps from chumby industries, inc. as able-bodied as the able-bodied audio and video agreeable from Sony's Bravia™ Internet video platform, including YouTube™, Pandora® Internet radio, Epicurious, Crackle, Livestrong™, Blip.tv and abundant more.
Other agreeable includes a NAVTEQ® app for calmly attainable cartage updates on a customized route, and a Cozi™ app for simple administration and synching of ancestors calendars. Further, Sony Music Ball and Sony Pictures Ball will be accidental absolute birr apps for cine trailers, music videos, custom user capacity and more, including an app from Dr. Oz alms circadian bloom and exercise tips.
In addition, Sony birr can run assorted sources of agreeable simultaneously, so for example, Internet radio can be enjoyed while browsing through online photo albums. Or, the anxiety anxiety can be set to play called online videos from music, sports and added account feeds. The accessory aswell allows users to accept apps either anon from the accessory or online through a PC, and new agreeable for birr will abide to be added affective forward.
Within the device, an centralized accelerometer supports vertical flip, acceptance for two alternative examination angles: upright, ideal for a table or nightstand; and tilted, absolute for a countertop. It aswell supports assorted user profiles and channels, acceptance several associates of the domiciliary to actualize and advance their own customized appearance of the Internet.
dash aswell appearance congenital stereo speakers as able-bodied as a USB anchorage for simple affiliation to a array of alien cyberbanking devices. An headphone achievement jack gives users the advantage to accept abreast through headphones or through alien speakers.
Sony's birr will be accessible this April for about $199 at www.sonystyle.com, Sony Style® retail food and a array of accustomed dealers nationwide.
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