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    Chumby

    anyone used this? http://www.chumby.com/
    i like that it has pandora on it...i don't think it has a remote or IR. i ordered one today.

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    Re: Chumby

    It seems like a fun idea but typically geeky in being a solution in search of a problem. To be honest a lot of what it's trying to be as an open source platform we did a while back at Slim Devices by making SlimServer open source . . and it was never embraced by the installer community (although that may have been our fault).
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    Isn't this ad based too? I thought they subsidize the cost of the unit by having ads on it. That is what turned me off. I see enough ads everywhere I look.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scottedge
    Isn't this ad based too? I thought they subsidize the cost of the unit by having ads on it. That is what turned me off. I see enough ads everywhere I look.
    i have pandora on my samsung bd-p1600 and use it alot...i have heard only 1 ad the entire time. 1 ad for 15 hrs give or take a week is ok with me...much better than off air radio or paying for xm. now, if i could only get pandora in my service van...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris-L5S
    i have pandora on my samsung bd-p1600 and use it alot...i have heard only 1 ad the entire time. 1 ad for 15 hrs give or take a week is ok with me...much better than off air radio or paying for xm. now, if i could only get pandora in my service van...
    Sorry I was talking about the Chumby.(link )If you have a blackberry, iphone, palm pre, or windows mobile there is a Pandora application.

    http://www.pandora.com/on-the-go

    2.5 Advertisements. You acknowledge and agree that we may display or execute Widgets on your Chumby (and/or Virtual Chumby) and display advertisements through such Widgets from time to time, if you are a Registered User. These advertisements allow us to provide you with the Services we offer through the Chumby Network. If you terminate your Registered User Account, you will no longer receive such Widgets and advertisements or the Services we offer through the Chumby Network to Registered Users.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scottedge
    Sorry I was talking about the Chumby.(link )If you have a blackberry, iphone, palm pre, or windows mobile there is a Pandora application.

    http://www.pandora.com/on-the-go
    where i live, my mobile phone doesn't work half the time when i try to talk on it...it takes pic, plays music, text, email, etc, but i can't talk on it when i need to...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris-L5S
    where i live, my mobile phone doesn't work half the time when i try to talk on it...it takes pic, plays music, text, email, etc, but i can't talk on it when i need to...

    Buy a real phone.....
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    Re: Chumby

    I actually have a Chumby that I purchased awhile ago. It's sitting in my desk cabinet for the past year or so. Yes, it was cool the way it has widgets, but now with iphones who has the time for that?

 

 

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