GlideTV Navigator gets a thorough hands-on and critiquing

October 26th, 2009

If you’re not down with snapping up an HTPC-centric keyboard with an integrated trackpad or trackball, controlling the likes of Hulu, Boxee and ZeeVee’s Zinc TV viewer can be a real chore. Dave Zatz was able to wrap his paws around the problem-solving GlideTV Navigator, and while he deemed the actual remote trackpad “the best he’d ever used,” he couldn’t unequivocally say that this beauty was worth a buck-fifty. He also found that the remote could be used one-handed with a bit of practice, and he expressed understandable concern about this thing’s ability to stay functional as the software around it evolves. If you’ve been waffling on pulling the trigger here, you owe it to yourself to give the read link a look.

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