A trackback led me to a litte more thinking on Music Phones. I’ve been learning what an Nokia N81 8GB music phone can do for me. After the weekend I’m getting a perspective that it is not just the phone but the accessories that you have that often makes the experience or pushes it to the next level.
I’m still a little in shock by the impact that my phone in the car now has. Push play and I’m shuffling all that music. (I never used my ipod for anything other than long drives in this format with a iTrip or cord).
Now I’m expecting little bluetooth ipod replacements for all those ipod ready speakers out there that we already have. When kids start bringing their phones to the party and the system can randomly share and shuffle across all of them. Imagine it just introduces… from Stuart’s playlist (groan!), as each new song is introduced as an option. Currently when we bring our mobiles into a new environment they don’t start sharing on our behalf. Music and in the future video will be easy to share. Not sure what impact this may have on bars, music handouts etc. I may have to look at Mosh or similar programs again although those seem to be centralized rather than a peer to peer self organizing format. Eg we are all in the proximity so what do we want to share.
I’m also learning how to use WiFi networking off my phone too.
Note: there is no bluetooth in the new ipod touch (you can add a bluetooth adapter). I’m drawing the conclusion that I’ve bought my last iPod (was a video 80gb about one year ago - which I still love particularly for movies and podcasts on planes and music at home). All my music is going into my phone. Sooner or later. It’s like the majority of my picture taking shifted to phones some years ago. Now if Nokia could just fix Real Player.
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Very interesting. I’ve been pondering similar stuff. What intrigues me is how the connectivity of phones and music players and unlimited data plans destroys radio in my car as an acceptable medium. Looking too at the Microsoft Sync here in the US that Ford are introducing and the ability to talk to my phone and any other bluetooth device in the car and tell it to do stuff, I can imagine my car being quite a feature rich mobile media environment. For me the really interesting stuff will be talk and news … I listen now to the Economist (I’m an ex-pat Brit) in the car and being able to easily skip a story makes my phone/mp3 player into an on-demand news source.