Tired

[andrewducker]

Replacement phone arrived this evening at 9pm. Thank goodness for insurance!

We were having a quiet night in. I'm off for a family "thing" Friday night->Tuesday night, so Julie had some lovely Indian from Kismot and chatted for a while, before playing a few levels of the recent Mario Bros game (which is excellent two player fun).

Since when I've restored all of my contacts and calendar to the phone, installed Spotify onto it, and am now sticking my email software back onto it. I haven't been able to find the cable, so I've been doing all of this over bluetooth, which is inexplicably slow. Once that's sorted I just have to throw a few day's clothing into a suitcase and I can sleep...

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

What's Spotify like on a phone? How's the initial loading time, is the streaming spotty, etc?

[andrewducker]

Initial load time is about 3 seconds. It works fine for streaming on WiFi, not done it on GSM/3G as it would kill my allowance quickly. I use it for offline play - I've got about 300 songs synched to it right now, and I can take up to 3000, I think. I set up playlists on the PC client and then tell it in the mobile client that I want to take them offline, and it copies them across.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's very nice.

Go try the 3G and tell me what it's like. Unless you're scared to experiment with a gadget?

[andrewducker]

Not great. It played for a few seconds, stopped, started, stopped again, went silent for about a minute, and then played the entire track seamlessly.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Shame! Entirely cloudy music is a little way off, then.

[andrewducker]

It's the download speed - just not reliable enough yet. You'll have to stick with the Radio :->

[broin.livejournal.com]

Radio? That's barely a step up from shouting!

[andrewducker]

HELLO!

CAN YOU HEAR ME?