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January 24, 2004
Technophiliac
Lately I've been fighting off the urge to rush out and buy myself an iPod, despite recommendations from various sources. I figured with my digital camera and my Smartphone, I had spent enough money on high-tech gadgetry. But I still wanted to be able to make my music collection portable, not to mention feed my technophilia. So as a compromise, I bought a 256 Mb Secure Digital card (which holds only about 3 hours worth of music, but was 1/8th the price of the iPod I was eyeing), copied a few albums on it, and stuck it into my phone, which conveniently has Pocket Windows Media Player. The whole bus ride home yesterday I managed to drown out the other passengers and ambient bus noises with Pink Floyd's greatest hits.
Although Pocket WMP is lacking most of the features of a full-fledged media player (equalizer, playlist editor, shuffle), and the earbuds that came with the phone are pretty uncomfortable, for a mobile phone I was pretty darn impressed. I think we've finally caught up to where Japanese cell phones were in 2001.
Comments
That's cool dude. My only question is how playing all this music affects your battery life.
Posted by: at January 24, 2004 6:41 PM
Battery life was one of my main concerns too.
The bus ride home was about half an hour, and the battery was still at 4 bars. We'll see if it can keep up with my workout time at the gym.
If I ever hit the gym again...
Posted by: Chris at January 24, 2004 10:15 PM