Audible is probably the biggest seller and producer of audiobooks to the point that iTunes has built in an Audible authorization feature onto its platform. But I’m wondering though if people use their mobile phones to listen to podcasts – the Nseries of Nokia for instance allows you to download and subscribe to podcast feeds.

I honestly prefer listening to audiobooks via my iPod nano more for battery life reasons. The N82’s battery life is pretty good but I can’t trust how far one charge can take me. Do you listen to audiobooks? And if so, what device do you use to listen to them?

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So yeah, this is a blog all about cellphones. So why are we talking about the iPod touch? I managed to try one today at a media event and all I can say is that one needs to take a step back and think about where the iPod touch falls in comparison to the iPhone and the rest of the iPod line.

The iPod touch is a tad slimmer than the iPhone. It doesn’t allow you to download files via the web browser, and the Starbucks WiFi store partnership only applies to countries where Starbucks chooses to participate. With the iPhone coming to Asia in 2008, it may seem that the four month wait may not actually justify buying the iPod touch – especially since you can already get refurbished iPhones for a fraction of the price – US$250.00. Hella cheap. The iPod touch is a great show off device but with the many things Apple may have in store for us in the coming year, I’d hold on to my wallet.

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I’m in Singapore! Although the Nokia Go Play event ended several hours ago (we took a post event trip to Equinox, a bar located at the highest peak of Singapore), there are a lot more things happening tomorrow. In the meantime let me give an overview of what took place today as Nokia launched several new products and services.

FOUR NEW PHONES
Although the news has been out in the blogosphere for quite some time, Nokia officially announces the coming of four new phones for the fourth quarter of 2007. This would include the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, the Nokia N81 and the new Nokia N95 Black Edition.

The Nokia 5310 is the newest affordable music phone that brings forth the ultra slim line to Nokia’s stable of products. The Nokia 5610 is also a music phone that features an integrated hardware slider button for ease of use in browsing through playlists, the media player, the gallery and the main phone menu.

The N81 is the new top of the line music phone that features a new user interface (more on this in a succeeding post) and a walloping 8GB of memory.

The black edition N95 is a well thought of improvement to the previous model. It now houses 8GB of memory, has a bigger 2.8 inch screen, better battery life and TV out.

NEW SERVICES
Nokia has launched their new service called Ovi which is basically a portal by which consumers can experience the full circle of multimedia, Web 2.0 and gaming all in one portal. These specific services include the Nokia Music Store, Nokia Maps, and the N-Gage service. Ovi also aims to integrate with popular Web 2.0 applications such as social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, online video services like YouTube and other popular online community services like Digg.

NEW USER INTERFACE
Nokia has revamped their user interface for their new line of Nseries phones. Though the current line of phones still make use of the familiar S60 or S40 menus, Nokia has identified key areas by which consumers are most inclined to categorize their mobile life. The new UI is accessible via a dedicated button allowing you to browse through wireless connectivity and Internet features, music, video and pictures, gaming, and phone functions.

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Step 1
Make sure you have a black cloth with you. Run the video recorder application and place it in between the conversation.

Step 2
Cover the phone’s video screen with the cloth so that the phone will technically be recording “nothing.”

Step 3
Use an audio extractor like this certain application to extract the audio from the 3GP file.

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With digital audio and video tightly integrated onto mobile phones, as seen in SE’s huge profits, what will the future hold for us? Mobile blogging? No, because that’s there already. How about mobile podnetcasting? Multimedia phones have so much memory built in, it is not surprising that stock HD space averages up to 512MB on phones without the expansion card! How about enhancing the microphone a bit more so that it can pick up clearer audio from the vicinity?

Mobile netcasting anyone?

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So one year ago, I started Cellphone9 with the help of Jeremy and the guys from b5. Today I decided to launch the first podcast for C9 as a personal project. Guesting with me is Rico Mossesgeld from The Smart PDA.

You can download the podcast here.

In this first episode we talk about:

- reminiscing the past
- introducing my guest
- the “death of the PDA?”
- overlooked features in mobile phones that are a must have

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