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| Brand: chumby
Category: CE
Buy New: $199.95
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 12367
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 6 x 3 x 4
MPN: CHBABLK3NXXXX
Model: CHBABLK3NXXXX
UPC: 810542010128
EAN: 0810542010128
ASIN: B001AYIUV6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Stay in the loop with the most recent news and pop culture stories from The New York Times to Entertainment Tonight. | | • | Shoutcast, Mediafly and more. Chumby gives you access to thousands of internet radio stations and podcasts. | | • | Showcase your pictures from Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook and MySpace. | | • | Keep in touch with the latest messages from your friends on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. | | • | Play classic games like Soduko and Blackjack plus wild new chumby inspired games. |
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Product Description
so what's chumby anyway? Chumby takes your favorite parts of the Internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. It's a window into your Internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets. Just plug in your chumby, connect to your wireless network, and use your computer to create a lineup of favorites from over 800 widgets in 30 different categories, with new ones arriving all the time. Then let your chumby do its thingstreaming everything you like, from sports scores to stock tips, from video clips to interactive games, from photos to trivia.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Was Expecting More... January 4, 2009
DraftZ (California)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While the concept of the Chumby has a lot of potential, I don't think it is well executed. I was expecting something attractive that I could put on my night stand to replace my alarm clock. I was also expecting something I could play with before I go to bed, or when I wake up in the morning. Unfortunately, it does a poor job at both.
These are the things that fail:
-The screen is not the best quality, making "night mode" either too bright or too difficult to see.
-The touch aspect of the screen is very poor. When comparing it to any other touch device, it fails.
-The accelerometer can be frustrating and eventually does whatever it wants and not what you want.
-The content does not appear to be well regulated. It is mostly poor in quality, lacks content updates and is rarely useful.
-The screen gets hot, which is uncomfortable when touching it.
-The interface just sucks. It is poorly designed and clumsy.
-It sometimes just does whatever it wants. You could be viewing a widget and it will just change widgets, even if you have a widget "pinned".
I'm not at all happy with my Chumby. I honestly believe that something like an iPhone is 100x the device, with a far better touch screen, better alarm capabilities and far more functionality. With so many feature-rich PMPs on the market, I can't imagine why a device as anemic as the Chumby exists. I get the impression that the intent is not to offer everything and the kitchen sink, but to provide a minimalist, yet useful set of features. Not only does Chumby miss at it's most basic premise, but there is no reason that higher quality components and more features could not exist at the current price point.
Cute but not very useful October 7, 2008
Electronic Lover (Illinois)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I ordered this for an alarm clock. It is very cute and fun to play with but really doesn't work great as an alarm clock. There is a learning curve to using it. It now sits in my kitchen as a conversation point and a weather station (a very expensive weather station).
 I think the video says it all. Check it out! July 2, 2008
Salman Malik
16 out of 24 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RNF4TSWKX39NM
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