A technology question

[gr8sho92]

First, it might make sense to move this to a new Technology section if the forum admin's feel it makes sense to create. This would be moved over to it.

I need to replace my aging Palm Treo 650. Does anyone have a Crackberry, uh, I mean Blackberry and purchased a program that allows shoutcast to be played on it? My next smartphone must be able to play AM or I won't get it. BB is so ubiquitous in my line of work it is difficult ignore.

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

I found this software, but by the number of available programs, it doesn't look real promising.

http://software.crackberry.com/produ...treaming-Radio

[gr8sho92]

it's interesting that Sprint doesn't allow streaming for BB but does for my Palm...

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Isn't that really more of a matter for hardware? You can have either instruments on any of the networks.

But you'd think the BB would want that kind of business.

[gr8sho92]

What they're saying is that their software won't work on Sprint for example because the carrier chooses to not allow streaming. I don't know if that's just disclaimer talk or if they have some way to really detect and block, or if somehow the software itself is disabled on certain carriers. The restriction doesn't exist with AT&T for instance. Sprint is actually supposed to have one of the better data services.

Right now when I use my Treo 650 to listen to AM, I'm tieing up bandwidth on their network. I suspect they don't like it, but my plan is unlimited so they can't really complain.

I'm surprised more people don't talk about their use of smartphone to listen to shoutcast streams. I personally find it very cool and use it every day.