A day in the life of O2 Joggler addict
The missing link in the connected home!
02 Joggler touch screen
Never to do things by half, we are the proud owners of two O2 Jogglers. Three days in and I am loving them and actually using them all the time! You can follow life in detail on Twitter.com/02JogglerAddict
Part of the new O2 family pack, Joggler replaces post-it notes and calendars at home, or as O2 like to say, “it’s your new fridge door”; really?
Is it worth it?
Well, if a decent wifi digital picture frame costs £100+, and O2 will not be happy with the comparison I am sure, then £150 to get a device that organises your life, is a networked home media player and looks so good is a bargain. Add to this the 1Gb of internal memory, USB connection for external drives and a never ending line up of applications to download in the future, and you would be mad not to get one.
Set up
The box and presentation are very Apple, simple, no wrapping, just a shiny new Joggler sitting there ready for use.
- Plug in to power and it switches itself on, say hi, plays a cute tune, and then takes you through a simple set up process.
- You’ll need to know your wifi password, etc, or you can plug it straight in to your router.
- Once online, it will automatically download and install a software update, restart and you’re off.
Features
- The main selling point is the shared calendar that you can add lots of people to and sync with the online calendar on O2.
- The calendar will send SMS alerts to O2 phones if you set a reminder on an calendar entry.
- Screen wise this is better than my top of the range Sony digital picture frame and plays back movies and photos in loads of formats amazingly well.
- Audio playback is not bad, you can stream AV from your PC too over the network, and once the digital radio is switched on, you’ll have a great little home media player in your kitchen.
- There are neat little news, weather, sport and traffic feeds, although I am not sure what the traffic one is telling me.
Other nice features are coming such as the ability to send and receive text and picture messages, turning this, already amazing device, into an electronic post-it note.
What’s missing?
Key features missing are web browsing, YouTube playback, Twitter client, ability to basically edit photos such as rotate and crop and an app store.
I really think that this device could the piece of tech that finally connects the digital home. Can you imagine how cool it would be to browse recipes on it whilst watching demo videos of how to cook and even being able to order your shopping by clicking on pictures and ordering direct.