music player and open street map portable device
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Hello
Can anyone recommend a portable device (besides a phone) that I can use to listen to music but that it also has the capabilities of viewing and editing open street maps
i know you said no phones but you dont have to use it as a phone:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
also not ment for maps but this is rely good for music and playing doom!:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/portable-ogg-flac-audio-player
also probably not what your looking for but these netbooks are very portable:
http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-coreboot/
http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/libreboot-x200/
thanks tom, I have looked at the openmoko but for what I read its not yet a consumer friendly device, do you happen to have any experience with it? I cant really use the last solutions as I will use the device on my bike, that would really look weird if I'm riding with a big ass 15" computer in my handle bar :)
i have a openmoko it works fine as a phone/tablet and it has gps, wifi etc
you can make it do just about anything you want because you can flash the os and bootloader yourself(i ran a webserver on it just for fun)
but the only problem is if you want to customise the programs on it and get openstreetmap etc
from my experiance you need to have a decent amount of tec knowlage
this is not a big problem though as just about every program you need is already on the system
i also strongly reccomend upgradeing the os(qtmoko) to the lastest version as its much better than the one that comes with the openmoko(better themes, web browser etc)
so i think the openmoko is quite user-friendly but only if you use the defualt os and the programs it gives you by default
as to customise the graphical programs in the os i think you need to
compile from source(i diddnt find any other way)
the open moko dose have a map application but not openstreetmap and its quite basic
MAPS:
if all you need is a map application then i would reccomend the openmoko but for something with more features like openstreetmap you would struggle to get that on the openmoko
MUSIC
you can also listen to music on the openmoko but the default storage isnt that much(about 250mb)
you can also get micro sd cards that you can install a os on but its a little hard to setup
the open moko needs improvement although it dose function fine and dose everything you need a basic smartphone to do
the music player from thinkpenguin however works completley perfectly in my experiance and is a very good music player
One candidate, though it's a little expensive and a little large, is the OpenPandora, with a wireless adapter added. The OpenPandora can run with only libre software, just without any 3-D acceleration or its built-in wireless. Audiophiles who are fans of the OpenPandora used to talk about how great its audio is as well (through the headphone jack, anyway).
If you do go with it, just be careful; the base system, all the way down to the boot loader, is libre once you get rid of the "libgles-omap3" and "pandora-firmware" packages, but all kinds of proprietary software flood the official source for software (which they call the "repo", though it's more like an app store).
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