PocketPC’s have been used as media devices for years. I used to load up 128MB of Mp3′s for a days listening on my Cassiopeia E-115 and even used it for QCIF videos for a while until I got bored of the video conversion process. Now of course, we expect full media players on our devices and it looks like the Nokia 770 has just got what it deserves, a nicely presented media player application. Canola.
Take a look at Thoughtfix’s video and then take a look at some of the videos on the developers blog. It proves that the 770 is more than just a browser!
This makes me want that Nokia 870 even more. With a little bit more power and development over the 770, it would make the perfect PMP,navigation and browsing device.
The coolest thing about this player is it appears to support UPnP. That’s automatic discovery and sharing of music and video files through the Universal Plug and Play method. Something that is well supported under Windows Media Player 11 and other media players.
More info about this really nice looking app at AV Media, Anytime, Anywhere! which has now been added to my RSS feed list!
Steve
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:51 am
Hi Steve,
Your reviews are very kind and we are very happy with our first release.
Canola does indeed supports Upnp AV, and actually is the first application that can do video streaming over upnp on the 770.
Anything, you can follow on my blog or the maemo garage project (http://garage.maemo.org/projects/canola/
March 24th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
This is the second time I visit your blog and find an interesting article perfectly matching what I was searching for so I decided to add your feed to my RSS Reader. Thanks for you work.