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| User reviews for the Philips ProntoPro TSU6000 from Philips Electronics. |
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Average: 3.49/5.00
Median: 4.00/5.00 | 23 | $999 |
The ProntoPro upgrades the Pronto TSU2000 with a bright 256-color LCD screen, 8 megabytes of memory, a pickup sensor, sleek new case design, more hard buttons, optional RF basestation and an improved user interface.
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| Written by Steve Medin from Boston, MA. The reviewer has used this remote control for 1-3 months. |
| Review 5 made on Tuesday November 13, 2001 at 12:23 AM. |
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| Review: | When you consider that Philips really did listen to its audience of TSU2000 users that said, "Hey, we need a joystick, we want the unit to have a stick-based shape, and two hardbuttons are not enough" and released the Pronto Neo, you can't possibly be seriously considering purchasing this boat anchor.
Granted, the Neo isn't color, but it's clear that Philips have snapped out of their ergonomic form factor coma and finally developed a unit designed to be used with one hand.
Now if we torch this POS loudly enough, they'll maybe come back with real color and some guts behind it.
I can't even go on. I'm so glad I passed on this and had faith that Philips could design a proper remote.
Watch for the next rev after Neo for a truly useful remote and the first time in 3 years I ditch my Pronto T2. |
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| Written by Brian from Somwhere, USA. The reviewer has used this remote control for 1-3 months. |
| Review 3 made on Wednesday September 19, 2001 at 8:52 PM. |
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| Review: | I'm giving this remote lower ratings for a few reasons:
First, it is WAY too expensive. I could buy a Pocket PC handheld computer, like the Compaq iPaq (which by the way is a beautiful device) and a Compact Flash sleeve for $550. People right now are trying to develop solutions to turn the Compaq iPaq into a consumer remote control. If someone will develop a CF card/software combo, for instance, that will add consumer RF capability to the iPaq for $100 or less (which is realistic), you'd have a beautiful remote control/computer combo device that could do a thousand times the things this overpriced remote could ever do. Not to mention it would cost you no more than $650 for everything. And with that in mind, you're already talking about a savings of $350 right there.
Why would the iPaq be better? Well, lets look at the feature set of both devices:
-The remote only displays 8-bit color (256 colors). The iPaqs (the new iPaq models [3800 series] shipping in October 2001) have 16-bit color (65,536 colors). The current iPaqs (3600 and 3700 series) have 12-bit color (4,096 colors). HP Jornadas have 16-bit color. Most color Pocket PC's have the 16-bit screens. This extra color means much nicer graphics, no banding, and better detail and clarity.
-The remote has a crappy passive matrix FSTN screen. Pocket PC's have active matrix screens. Active matrix means much, much better color, brightness, and overall consistency and quality of graphics, animation, and video.
-The remote has an old, slow, 33MHz DragonBall processor. The iPaq has a StrongARM processor running at 206MHz. All Pocket PC's are moving to this processor. And next year, iPaqs may move to Intels XScale processors that are supposed to run at 416MHz.
-The remote has only 8MB of RAM memory for long-term storage. Pocket PC's have anywhere from 32-64MB. And the iPaqs can be upgraded internally to 128MB. They can be upgraded far beyond that. iPaq's can be upgraded clear to 5GB! (Yes, I said GB's). This costs more, but you can do it. At the very least and at no extra cost, with Pocket PC, you'll have four to eight times the memory this remote has.
-The remote has an older serial connection for connecting to your computer. You can get the iPaqs with a serial connection as an option, but all Pocket PC's (including the iPaq) come standard with USB, which is much better and faster.
Not to mention, the Pocket PC is a computer. It will run hundreds and hundreds of programs of all kinds. It plays 2D and 3D games, will keep track of your appointments and calendar events with alarms, can work as a sound soother and alarm clock (as an example), works as an MP3 player, can play videos, will store all of your Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and miscellaneous text and audio files, stores digital photos, works as a voice recorder, will allow you to touch up photographs, compose music, allow you to draw and paint, will play converted DVD movies (providing you have the memory - this isn't super cheap and of the highest quality you see on your TV or desktop - but it can be done), you can read electronic books, listen to audio books, and it has internet capability, and you can access networks and VPN's wirelessly with Wi-Fi PC cards. Some of what I mentioned above requires purchases software, and of course the Wi-Fi card would cost extra, but most of what I mentioned can be done out of the box. What's really cool (and granted, at added cost) is that Pocket PC's can wirelessly have internet access, send receive emails, faxes, SMS messages, and file transfers. All wirelessly. And soon, when Compaq (or HP - whatever will happen there) releases their tri-band GSM/GPRS phone card, it will turn the iPaq into a cellular phone as well. Pretty amazing indeed. With a Pocket PC, you could change the channel on the TV, change some settings of your home theatre, then surf the net, and check your email - all with the same device. The new iPaqs will have voice control software, and an SD slot, and with Palm's upcoming SD Bluetooth card, you could potentially have Bluetooth capability. Oh yeah, did I mention that with the right hardware, Pocket PC's will work as GPS devices and give you voice directions to your destination? You can sync the device with your computer - I could literally go on and on. Lets see this remote do all of that.
I know this is a lot of info, but these Pocket PC's can be infinitely expanded with the most state of the art technologies. It's a computer, so its only limited to the imagination and add-on ingenuity of hardware and software developers. And the point is, if someone comes out with a hardware/software solution for consumer remote capability for the iPaq and other Pocket PC's, you'd have a beautiful device, that does a thousand times the things this remote does, with much higher quality and greater speed, and at $350 less. We geeks are just waiting. I'd rather wait for a solution that will cost me $100 bucks or so and that will allow my $500-$650 Compaq iPaq work as a consumer remote in addition to everything else it does, than to spend almost $1000 for a device that isn't even that great and does only one thing.
And don't think that the Pocket PC is a jack of all trades, master of none type of device. It does everything well. And it could handle remote control capabilities in such a way that it would absolutely blow this remote away.
Now what would YOU rather have? I know this was long, but do you see my point?
For Pocket PC info, go to:
www.pocketpc.com
www.pocketpcpassion.com (the best site)
www.brighthand.com (a good site)
www.pocketpcthoughts.com
www.pocketnow.com
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