[Swprograms] New Eton SW Porsche Radios

["William Martin" <wgmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all!

Just got a new Sharper Image catalog in the mail yesterday. Oddly
enough, it does NOT include the new Eton E1-XM radio, though
most of the people who now have one of those seem to have
bought theirs through Sharper Image. But it DOES include an
Eton SW (& XM) radio I had never seen before, a "Porsche Design
P'7131" model. I went to the Eton website and found this page:

http://www.etoncorp.com/US/porschedesign/product_specs.aspx?specs=true&prodID=1&subID=1

Note that this shows two new radios, the P'7131 and P'7136. But
there are specs (sort of) only on the larger P'7131. And these
so-called "specs" don't give any details of the SW coverage.

It appears that this is aimed at the designer/appearance-is-what-matters
market; Sharper Image is selling this toy at $349.95, plus $50 for
the XM-antenna add-on VX300 unit (& of course the XM subscription
cost).

That brings up another question. The picture of the VX300 unit,
which I cannot find on the Eton site but only on the Sharper
Image site, at

http://www.sharperimagebest.com/vx300.html

does NOT exactly match the image of the XM-antenna add-on
unit that is pictured with the Eton E1 image all over the net. THAT
is by Audiovox, the CNP-1000; here is a picture of that XM antenna unit:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009GE7G8/ref=e_deav_acc_1_1/102-7785761-1430500?%5Fencoding=UTF8

I find this odd. Why would Eton (& Sharper Image) want
to handle two different XM-antenna units? Are they really
interchangeable or not? The mind reels...

Anyway, I look forward to finding out more about these new
Porsche-designed Eton SW radios. If anyone finds more-detailed
specs, and especially performance evaluations, please post! Could
this P'7131 really be worth $350? It IS physically small for something
supposedly a non-portable ((6" High X 5" Wide X 8.5" Deep) and
has a remote. Maybe you want to add that to your Christmas
want-list? :-) If it performs decently on SW, the wife-acceptance-factor
could be higher than for many other radios...

73, Will


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