Cell phone radio: the road trip application
April 28th, 2008
Cruising home from the mountain this weekend, on my way back from a spring skiing adventure, I found myself getting extremely frustrated with the lack of good stuff available on the radio while I was trapped in the car. Each time I scanned through my presets, it seemed all I found were commercials or something I didn’t want to listen to. I endured this for a while until I had a realization that should have occured to me much sooner.
I can get dozens of streaming stations of all genres right from my phone. Feeling both relieved at the new options, and sheepish at my delayed realization, I pulled up some good roadtrip music and set the phone next to me, content at last. What freedom comes from listening to what I want, when I want, and without commercials!
As I was listening, it occured to me that to make my experience truly complete, I would like to be able to skip through things I didn’t want to hear - a feature not usually available with streaming radio. So the ultimate would be listening to what I chose, with full file control. If only someone would amass lots of great radio and audio content, make it accessible on demand, and allow me to jump around within the audio, they’d really be on to something.
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April 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I love your thinkin’. And hey, it sounds a little bit familiar for some reason
A friend and I were discussing road trips this weekend and the necessity of good listening material. A road trip formerly (just a year ago) found me packing a stack of CDs. Now, I just bring my Ipod and the 1000+ albums contained within. Musical nirvana!
You pulled the necessary content for your weekend trip using your phone. And from what we hear, soon we’ll be able to pull any station/streamed content into our car via wireless, which I can’t WAIT for!
I agree with you as well, that total file control is a must. And from what CelleCast is doing, we know at least ONE company is listening. Hopefully others will perk up their ears and smell the revolution that is waiting to happen!
Great post!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hahaha. That’s funny stuff.
It is pretty rad though that you can get your shows on demand. When you think about people who Vacation, or a visiting somewhere where they can’t get any shows they like, CelleCast sure comes in handy!