{"id":341,"date":"2008-05-08T23:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T10:08:58","slug":"my-phone-does-not-replace-my-rockbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/my-phone-does-not-replace-my-rockbox\/","title":{"rendered":"My phone does not replace my Rockbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have one of them mp3 capable mobile phones<\/a> and I have a 4GB NAND flash inserted in it that is packed with music I like. Yet I never end up using it as a music player.\"\"<\/p>\n

I see people everywhere use their phones for music and I repeatedly read and hear the soon coming death of the portable music player being predicted not far away by opinion-expressing know-it-allers.<\/p>\n

My phone plays mp3 files just fine, but there are several reasons why I don’t use it for that. The primary one being that it gets a lousy battery run-time if I do that, and if I’d run down the battery all the way when listening to music then how would I be able to use the phone for regular voice? With a separate (Rockbox<\/a>) device I can listen to music until the last drop of power goes out without hampering my communication abilities.<\/p>\n

In my particular case, my phone’s lack of a proper standard USB port and it’s lack of anything but “full speed” (and yes full speed is less than high speed and is a lot slower than it sounds) when connecting it using the custom cable to my Linux box are two more reasons. Not to mention that it has this “database-only” approach to the music which I really don’t like – but yeah, I can learn to live with it.<\/p>\n

Besides, it’ll be a while longer until I can hack my phone to run Rockbox and thus work the way I want it. Let’s hope Android<\/a> or OpenMoko<\/a> or similar efforts actually make it possible one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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