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Com One's Phoenix Wi-Fi radio is a home music appliance built on an embedded Linux foundation. Phoenix lets you stream music or play podcasts as easily as you can listen to a car radio, once you tell it what you want to hear. Its ability to play Internet radio is nice -- but is it worth its price? The radio is attractive enough in a shiny white plastic kind of way. It's smaller than a boom box -- about the size of three transistor radios (remember them?) side by side. The main controls include a five-way circular control pad and a knob that changes the music volume and moves through device settings during setup.
I was at the Embedded Systems Conference last year in San Jose and Avnet had a sample board running IP radio at their kiosk. I later attended the seminar given by Avnet and Cirrus Logic to promote the new chipset/eval board. This appears to be a consumer manifestation of that very system. The LCD and dial-knob are all similarly placed. I'd almost bet this is developed off that eval board one way or another.
Kinda pricey for end users, and the legalities of IP radio aren't even close to being sorted out yet. It's still fun stuff, especially the back end.
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Kinda pricey for end users, and the legalities of IP radio aren't even close to being sorted out yet. It's still fun stuff, especially the back end.