Blogging Ottinger (tim)Zaurus media player - Not so great.
I finally got around to trying to play video on my zaurus. It’s an old 5500 model, and I’ve been playing audio-only on it for quite a while. It’s been little more than an overpriced 512MB audio player since I got my Blackberry, so I started thinking about what I can do with it.
Well, it would probably be okay but it does few formats (no avi) and frame rate is not at all impressive. It pretty quickly falls behind or runs ahead and you’re stuck trying to mentally fit the sounds and video together post-facto. Also, about 1/2 hour runs the battery about 1/2 capacity, even with the backlight set as low as possible without being “off”.
Still a nice MP3 player. Does have some games and an encrypted password manager, so it’s not useless. I guess time is just catching up to it. You can’t stay hot and new forever.
