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Originally Posted by thefrankey  I was going to order the SB3 but my girlfriend rather had the SBr thanks to the fancy remote. Can you tell me more about the remote? such as battery life and the display itself?
When you are playing a song, wat does the remote display? And can I roam around the house with it?
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The screen is nice. When playing, as standard, the screen displays album art and time remaining etc. It will switch to a larger album art view after a set amount of time (now playing screen saver). But you can browse you current playlist, menus or music collection while it plays, just like a iPod etc. I am currently messing around with a plugin call 'lyrics' which downloads lyrics from the internet for the song playing and displays them karaoke style. RSS news reader too etc and much more on the way.
Yes you can roam with it, it's proper Wifi.
battery life...
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* Active - everything on
* Dimmed - display dimmed and keypad backlights off
o Entered after 10 seconds of inactivity when not charging
o Wakes to Active by motion, key event
* Sleep - backlights, screen and audio off. CPU reduced to 50MHz.
o Entered after 1 minute of inactivity when not charging
o Wakes to Active by motion or key event
* Suspend - backlights, screen, wireless and audio off. CPU suspended.
o Entered after 1 hour of inactivity (no motion, keys) when not charging
o Resumes to Active by motion, key event or docking. The wireless drivers are reloaded, and the network connection restored.
* Power off - everything off.
o Entered when battery level is dangerously low (voltage TODO), following Battery Low warning screen
o Wakes to Active only by charging and pressing the Power (home) key.
* Locked - backlights, screen off
o Entered when user presses special key sequence (VOL+ and VOL- together).
o Screen comes on when GO button is pressed to display instructions for unlocking
o Wakes to Active by special key sequence (VOL+ and VOL- together) to unlock
Battery Measurements
Mode Average mA (1) Battery life (2)
Active 210 5 Hours
Dimmed 120 9 Hours
Sleep 59 19 Hours
Suspended 10 4.6 Days
Power off 0.7 2 Months
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Remember, it's still in beta and improving daily. It will really justify it's price once the DAC and IR are made use of - once they are, if done well, it will probably be the best 'remote controller' ever made, for anything, seriously. but right now, still needs work.