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Written by TK Dinesh
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:44 |
Provided Apple and/or AT&T don’t throw a fit, you’ll soon be able to use Rhapsody on your iPhone (and iPod touch). The App works over 3G and EDGE (and Wi-Fi, of course), streaming music from a library of more than 8 million songs.
The App is being submitted this week for Apple to review; hopefully it’s not rejected for some lame reason. It seems to work easily enough: launch the App, search for your song, and away you go. You can, of course, also browse by artist, album, etc. Pretty simple and about what you’d expect, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
If you’re not familiar with Rhapsody music-on-demand service, just think Spotify—execpt that it works here in the U.S. with having to find a UK proxy server or using a beta. (I, for the record, have access to the Spotify beta. Perks of the job, I suppose.) Rather than download an MP3 or AAC (or whatever other kooky format you can think of), you merely stream the song on-demand. The video shows U2’s “Beautiful Day” playing as soon you hit play.
The benefit to streaming is that you have instant (if your Internet connection plays nicely) access to a boatload of songs, versus how ever many you have on your iPod. Of course, Rhapsody (or Spotify or NameYourStreamingService) could go bankrupt or otherwise blow up, suddenly leaving you without access to Lady Gaga. That’s not a world I want to live in.
But yeah, Real has submitted the App. If/when it comes out, I’m sure we’ll have a look-see. Oh, and Real is working on an Android App, but it’s not done yet. Sorry.
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:30 |
What’s black, yellow, red, and just a wee bit ugly all over? If you guessed the Samsung S3650 Corby, good job! We also would have accepted “Clint Howard wearing a bumblebee suit and a red fedora.”
The Corby, pictured here, rides that fine line between “Budget featurephone” and “Phone you’ll still like 6 months from now” quite well. Its got quad-band GSM, a 2.8″ QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, a 2MP camera, and FM radio. Alas, it’s all packed behind Samsung’s proprietary OS running TouchWiz to the core, so what you see up front is pretty much what you get - at least until Samsung launches TouchWiz widget downloads, that is. Rumors pin this thing at around $200 sans contract, though no price has been officially confirmed. |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:42 |
Oh - now that makes more sense. After rumors got out that RIM was toiling away at Flash and Silverlight for the BlackBerry browser, we were a bit perplexed. That would imply a whole new browser was in the works, and RIM’s about as good at making browsers as I am at building card houses whilst myself and the cards are covered in butter. Turns out, they’re not the ones making it.
Torch Mobile, makers of the Iris browser for Windows Mobile, has just announced that they’ve been purchased by RIM for an undisclosed amount. They outright say that they will “now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry® platform.”, so expect the BlackBerry browsing experience to get a whole lot less painful in the near future.
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:28 |
We’d usually expect to have seen a leaked event invite pop up by now, but SEMC Blog is claiming that Sony Ericsson will be hosting an announcement event next week.
What ever might they be announcing? Our fingers are crossed in hopes they’ll debut the X2 (or, better yet, that they’ll skip the X2 and announce the Android-powered X3, otherwise known as “Rachel”), but don’t be too surprised if it’s something silly. Sony Ericsson has held reasonably sized events to announce Bluetooth accessories before; they’d host a press conference to celebrate their CEO adopting a cat, if they could. We’ll keep an ear to the ground. |
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