Terratec announced the noxon2audio!

What's changed

• It really does 802.11g with 54 MBit/s (that's never needed for streams it can play anyway) and what's more important it supports WPA now (WPA2?).
• It has some new inputs: LAN besides WLAN and USB for playing from portable disks e.g.
• It has some new outputs: TOS link (!) and headphones.
• It has some buttons now. So maybe you can even switch it off? Anyway it's nice to be able to stop playing without remote control.
• It looks better on the images, but will it in reality as well? The images on the web page do rather look like being rendered…

What's (unfortunately) not changed

• Still the same blue lighted display. One question to Terratec: you didn't read any of the critics by users on the net, didn't you? If you'd have, you'd have noticed that the blue lighted displays is one of the major negative points about this device, if it is not even the major flaw.
• It still can't play RealAudio and OGG. You should really change that. This shouldn't be too complicated.

What to expect

Terratec still supports playing stream directly without using a UPnP server. That's really good, there're not so many devices out there being capable of this.

There's already a firmware update scheduled, which will bring playback of mms. But was there any update for the Noxon firmware yet? So I may doubt this.

As this gadget looks pretty similar (looking at the spec) could you release a firmware update for the original Noxon with the new features (WPA, mms)? And add OGG and RealAudio on the way?

Or won't you, because you want us to buy the Noxon2…