The Sensia has joined a long list of consumer electronics that were designed to be anything other what they actually are. Similarly to "smart TVs" and mobile phones. Released by Pure, the Sensia allows the user to connect to the internet and go on certain websites (Facebook, of course) through its touch screen, which is cluttered with widgets and menus. Too me this seems like an unnecessary pursuit and distracts from the experience of using a radio. It has no dials or buttons, it purely relies on one awkwardly sized screen, which is big enough to be the main feature, yet not big enough to fill the flat panel it sits on.
However the design does attend to a few key concerns; the interface is on such an angle that it can be used at and below eye level. It also has its speakers facing out at around a 90 degree angle from each other, so the radio can affect a greater area, and it doesn't look like a weather-worn brick (box with curved edges).
Overall I don't feel that this is what a radio should aspire to be, touch screens a great and all but radios are used for their sound quality, not their screen quality.
Alex Beattie
GREAT THINKING~
ReplyDeleteHowever those big companies aren't going to spend their energy on designing a pure radio, because small companies can do that and why would they do so.
Not many radios can pursued the customers to buy only for their cool looking. i mean, there must be more that, maybe a qualified speaker or somthing like that.
Focusing the only radio function aren't going to make money for big companies like Pure.
anyway, just a different option, i still agree with u that this is a fail design.
For sure, a good design needs to be backed up with good specs to be a worthy product, but the screen isn't a relivant feature, they would have been better off making a smaller screen, allowing more room to be dedicated to the speakers, or even just to include better speakers, or maybe even a bit of a sub. Everything has a screen now days, its getting old..
ReplyDelete-Alex
Yeah I checked it out in Harvey Norman and the filthy touchscreen is really slow and lagy. Also the back is a tacky looking shiny molded plastic that doesn't fit with the front side, all for $749!
ReplyDeleteBen