Do I Need An iPod To Listen To Podcasts?
Thursday, June 29, 2006
It is funny to me that this question and the answer to this is a Top Tip at Extreme Tech, but it is.
And of course the answer is - "NO" - you can listen to podcasts with any device that plays an MP3 including many car stereos via CDROM.
An interesting side note is that Mike @ The Mike Tech Show recently did a show on MP3 players that his listeners were using. The diversity is pretty amazing. Here is the list via his blog:
- Samsung Yp-T7 or YP-F2JZW
- Palm TX with Pocket Tunes
- iRiver T30
- iPod Shuffle
- Samsung MP3
Players
- iRiver T30
- Palm TX
- Pocket Tunes
- PQ DVD
- MMPlayer
- iPod shuffle
- Sandisk
Sansa Products
- iriver
IFP-790
- Coby
MP-827
- Rio Sport
- Sandisk Sansa M240
- Creative Zen Vision M
- HP iPaq Pocket PC
- Creative Zen Nano Plus
- Creative ZEN Microphoto
But, can you suscribe to and listen to podcasts using the Cingular 8125?
Posted by: RC | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 11:43 AM
You have a couple of options for sure on the Cingular 8125. You can use something like (www.odeo.com/m) ... the mobile version of ODEO ... via EDGE or you can use a subscription model like Newsgator's Moible RSS tool currently in Beta. There are other native Windows Mobile 5.0 RSS readers that will behave like a podcatching client. You could also do this via ActiveSync with your Windows desktop system using Media Player and also via the minSDcard with Media Player on Windows. Lots of options ... Steve
Posted by: Steve Holden | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 01:18 PM