Post by DAB sounds worse than FMPost by Richard EvansNokia's Internet Radio beta:http://europe.nokia.com/A4668051
Virtual Radio:http://www.vradio.org/index.php?js=a
Mundu Radio:http://radio.mundu.com/
Does anyone know of any other Internet radio software applications
for mobiles?
Bl*dy hell.
I mentioned a few days ago that they would probably put internet radio
into mobile phones. I was thinking in terms of years, I never expected
it to happen this fast.
I think I've mentioned Nokia's Internet Radio software before. Don't know
how long the other applications have been out though.
This really sums up why DAB will be eclipsed by Internet radio, because an
Internet radio "receiver" is just software that runs on any device that has
an Internet connection. How can you compete with that? What's Nokia going to
do, write a software app (development cost = a few programmers working for a
few weeks, costs very little) that it can put on all (all in future anyway)
of its phones or spend tens of millions of pounds per year putting DAB chips
into their phones, and even then DAB's currently only selling in 3 or 4
countries, so it wouldn't be interested anyway.
Another example is Sony adding Internet radio support for the PSP in their
most recent version of the firmware for the PSP just before Xmas - just
download it and you've got Internet radio access.
Jenny Abramsky will be forced to eat her words in time to come, because when
she said "you can receive DAB anywhere" with the implication that you can't
receive Internet radio anywhere, well 3G population coverage for 3 already
exceeds the population coverage the BBC will EVER provide via DAB (she's not
told the other 10% that yet, I wonder when she's going to get round to it?)
and the cost of mobile broadband packages via 3G has come down to £15 per
month for 3 GB and £25 per month for 7 GB and £30 for unlimited. The 3G
operators are now properly in the broadband business, and we've got 4G to
come, which will be analogical to moving from today's sort of 512k ADSL
connection on mobile broadband up to superfast broadband - 100 Mbps max
download speeds via mobile phones. And there'll be other things in between
3G and 4G, such as HSOPA (high speed OFDM packet access).
Wi-Fi was never going to provide nationwide coverage, so it was always going
to be limited, and it's not designed for reception when travelling at high
speed, whereas 3G is available with 80 - 90% population coverage on all
networks now, and it's obviously designed to allow reception at high speed.
We've got Wi-Fi Internet radios today, I reckon we'll see 3G Internet radios
in future - and Jenny Abramsky will have to eat her own words in a big way
if that happens. Not that she shouldn't be eating them already anyway,
because unless she can think of somewhere where you can't take a mobile
phone then you can obviously already receive Internet radio anywhere today.
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