Olive One Update: adesso si parla di Novembre per il delivery

[franz159]

E così siamo ormai a 4 mesi di ritardo sulla data inizialmente pianificata per Luglio 2013.
Questo l'update ricevuto oggi:

Dear Valued Backer,

Since our last update, we have made significant progress in Olive ONE's development. We want to share with you some key news and pictures of the first pre-production samples.

The Olive ONE has a single body die-casted aluminum enclosure, with a beautiful anodized finish and glossy glass touch-screen surface.

Olive ONE sports a user installable hard drive. Making the hard disk drive user installable involved solving a few design challenges.
The hard drive will now reside in a small compartment on the underside of the ONE.

As discussed in our last update email, we added premium-grade connectors directly to the Olive ONE, eliminating the need for the Olive PAC.

Notice something? We have added Gigabit Ethernet to the Olive ONE! Many of you requested Ethernet connectivity during the Indiegogo campaign, but we were unable to add it due to the limitations of the Marvel processor used in the original design.

ONE will now come with a brand new Freescale processor with significant performance benefits:

The new Freescale processor shows significant increases in navigation performance. Browsing through music libraries and transitions are now much more smooth and fluid. Additionally, video playback capability (e.g. for YouTube playback) improves considerably.

The change to a new processor is of course a major challenge, but the porting of our software has so far showed no major complications. Nevertheless, we want to communicate clearly that we still have not ported all of the software, and there might be unforeseen delays that can push the product delivery into November, which would be the worst case scenario.

At this point, we have used approximately 30% of the funds raised for tooling, PCB and enclosure prototyping and sourcing of key parts for the Bill of Material. Our accounting team is currently entering your contribution details and you will receive an official contribution confirmation from Olive soon, confirming your contribution amount, product model, shipping address and an estimated shipping date.

Thank you again for supporting this project and your amazing feedback over the last months. We understand that the delay in shipping is anything less than ideal, but we believe that implementing your feedback and key feature requests was worth the extra effort and cost. We hope you see it the same way.

Ecco anche le foto per chi fosse interessato:

• Prototipo
• Scomparto HDD
• Uscite e connettori

[sim80]

ancora niente?

[franz159]

..solo brutte notizie.... la mail del 22 Novembre scorso, alla voce "Next Steps" recita:

Next Steps
Shipping of the Olive ONE will happen in several stages. The first shipment in December will go out to a small number of backers who have volunteered to test the ONE thoroughly and work with us to get the software through the home stretch. Although we've already tested ONE with a wide range of different phones, network equipment and UPnP sources, there is no substitute for a "real" market test to ensure compatibility in various environments and settings.

Since testing will require some technical background, an ideal volunteer will have a good understanding of IT and will have owned a networked music player, such as a Logitech Squeezebox, in the past. To participate as a testing volunteer, please fill out our short questionnaire. If you're selected as a volunteer, we will reach out to you with a confirmation of your participation.

Once we have received adequate test feedback and implemented improvements, we will send the remaining Olive ONE orders. Currently, we estimate that the testing and implementation phase will take about 4-6 weeks after the volunteers receive their products. This means that all backers will receive a fully tested and approved Olive ONE in the first quarter of next year.


... ne consegue che mi sono immediatamente candidato come "tester", ma non ho ricevuto ancora nessun feedback.

Hanno solo indorato la pillola con un po' di video di un prototipo in azione per le varie funzionalità (Playing dallo HD, Streaming da Smartphone, Streaming UPnP, Internet Radio, Controlling with a tablet, Connecting to the Network).
Se interessa posso postarne i link.

Stay tuned!

franz

[antonio leone]

...secondo me ....a naso...la situazione è ancora più nera

[franz159]

già... in fondo gli abbiamo "appena" mollato lì circa 500$ un anno prima (se va bene!)

...e per adesso in cambio ho qualche video su YouTube

Olive ONE - Playing & Browsing Music from the Built-in Hard Drive

Olive ONE - Play Music from your Smartphone

Olive ONE - Streaming Music from a UPnP Source

Olive ONE - Internet Radio

Olive One - Android App

OIive ONE - Network Setup & Settings

[sim80]

da olive non me lo sarei aspettato

[hal999]

ho guardato un po il sito e mi sembra più un esercizio in fumologia con mirabolanti promesse per quelli che ascoltano la musica con le beats che il hifi
sbaglio o usano il tripath (o qualcosa simile) per la amplificazione?

[enzo66]

Beh, però fa un po' di tutto....
Un apparecchio versatile.



Ciao, Enzo

[franz159]

Il chip usato per la funzione DAC è noto, è il Burr-Brown PCM5142 stando a quanto indicato nel data-sheet seguente

http://images.indiegogo.com/medias/5...pdf?1355189633

Dell'amplificazione si sa che sarà "2x 32W/channel into 8 Ohm, high-efficiency (92%)", quindi, presumibilmente in classe D.
Non sono un esperto ma non mi pare che ci sia un chip Tripath che risponda alle caratteristiche suddette (lieto di essere smentito se qualcuno ha info + precise).

In ogni caso, ho avuto un Kingrex T20U che usava un Tripath T2020 e, nel suo piccolo, faceva molto bene il suo lavoro.
Come dicevo oggi in un altro thread, non è certo la parte di amplificazione quella che mi "spinto" verso l'Olive One anche se, personalmente, anche quella mi fa comodo in un uso "all-in-one" (+casse) per le vacanze...

[sim80]

rimane singolare il cinema che stanno facendo con gli ordini..

[sim80]

Beh, però fa un po' di tutto....
Un apparecchio versatile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbdtIfUQ0E

Ciao, Enzo

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[franz159]

Nuovo aggiornamento del 30/12, dopo mia ulteriore richiesta di aggiornamento:


Hello Francesco,

sorry, it seems you did not get our last update email that we sent out last Friday (please see below).

The first test units have been shipped to our backers and we expect to receive their feedback soon. We estimate that the testing phase and the implementation of potential bugs and improvements will take about 4 to 6 weeks. With that in mind we should ship all units to backers by end of February, but no later than March.

Thank you for your continued patience.


Have a great start into 2014!


... pazienza ne ho avuta, visto che il mio "crowdfunding" su indiegogo è datato 30/3/2013...

[antonio7319]

ciao
nulla di nuovo per questo player?

[franz159]

ciao
nulla di nuovo per questo player?

Stanno finalmente consegnando.
Mi dovrebbe arrivare la prossima settimana, aspetto la notifica di spedizione oggi o domani.
Vi aggiorno quando mi arriva...

[franz159]

Il mio Olive One è partito dalla factory di Taiwan.
Secondo il tracking DHL in questo momento è all'aeroporto di Taipei, in attesa di partire per Heathrow (Londra)....