5 Ways the Cell Phone will Change How You Listen To Music

Next Big Change for Cell Phones

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/six-ways-cellph.html

Apple already took a big initiative with the release of the iphone not too long ago and since then the iphone model has been at the top of the ranks. You can download music files onto your phone and it converts to a mp3 player, you can surf the web play games and access a variety of other functions. As a user of the increasingly popular online radio site known as Pandora, I can vouch for the advantage of having a free, user-friendly and easily customized radio at the touch of a mouse. Pandora and similar sites take the work out of your hands, finding, streaming and playing songs according to the song you originally searched for. Considering the user support these sites have received, teaming up to deliver interactive radio to mobile phones will most likely be a successful step. I can see both the appeal and the drawbacks of having interactive radio on your cell phone. It would be nice to have the option of a portable radio on “some days”, as the article said, yet I can also see potential kinks. Will streaming always work? Will there be enough bandwidth for all the demand created by the growth of wireless users? Will actions available on the websites, like skip and customizing options, and the sound quality translate in a cellular context. It seems logical that using such services on the phone will be slower than on a computer. I don’t think such a service wouldn’t shove regular mp3 players out of the picture. Although it does offer many new, appealing options for the cell phone, mp3 players allow you to play specific songs and maintain a generous music library available at hand without any wireless streaming. The initiative that Omnifone plans to take with Gracenote, however could become future replacement. The idea of unlimited music services being brought to every connected device platform, including car audio systems, with the capability to “automatically synchronize you existing music collection with Omnifone’s unlimited service of millions of tracks” seems like a far of reality, but in a few years it could be the norm.