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March 15, 2005
Eton P`7131, P`7132 and E1XM Porn
A helpful reader pointed me to the Radio Intelligencer where they have pics of the upcoming Eton / Porsche Design P`7131 Tabletop, the P`7132 Portable, and the E1XM satellite radio units taken at CES 2005.
Here's a great shot of the P'7131 and another shot of the P'7131. Also here's a beautiful photo of the E1XM AM/FM/SW/XM unit (with more here and here) and finally a shot of both the P'7131 and P'7132 together.
Very cool. Love the unique design.
There's still very little information available about the two Porsche Design XM Connect-and-Play equipped receivers; but from the look of those pics I pray that the XM Connect and Play antenna shown is for the "Home" kit (I believe it is), and that the portable/vehicle antennas will be slightly smaller.
We do know of a dedicated section of Eton/Grundig Radio's site for the P'7131 and P'7132 that has the usual marketing copy and a "COMING SOON" display. Once the units have hit stores, I'm sure we'll see that site in all it's glory.
As for a release date for any of these units, all we have to work with is from XM's Q404 Results:
"XM has developed alliances with a number of major consumer electronics manufacturers to launch XM Ready products with the "Connect-and-Play" technology in 2005 and 2006. The first "Connect-and-Play" product from Eton will be available in 60 days."
That was released on February 10th, which would put the 60 days at April 11th, and from what I can gather than that's just for the E1XM unit.
Ahh well, either way, I know I can't afford any of them. But it's nice to look.
March 15, 2005 02:09 PM
Comments
Ahh... With a subject line like that I was expecting better than just a bunch of new radios! :(
Posted by: Monmin at March 15, 2005 06:31 PM
Ok, after reviewing the products more closly all I can say is I am less than impressed with the connect-n-play. They said they were going to move the chipset out of the pnp and into the antenna. What they didn't tell us was that they are making the antenna bigger than the original pnp.
Home modders can do a similar thing by duct tapeing their pnp's to the antenna :)
Posted by: Monmin at March 15, 2005 07:38 PM
