This may sound a silly question but....
could I use the o2 Music player with a Vodafone handset?
Thanks
could I use the o2 Music player with a Vodafone handset?
Thanks
o2 Music Player Question
I wouldn't have thought so, given the fact that billing is handled by O2. They can't bill you if you're not a customer. And the device probably makes use of O2's GPRS access points exclusively...
By the way, does anyone have one of these players? Is it any good?
By the way, does anyone have one of these players? Is it any good?
Originally Posted by jonat8:
“I wouldn't have thought so, given the fact that billing is handled by O2. They can't bill you if you're not a customer. And the device probably makes use of O2's GPRS access points exclusively...
By the way, does anyone have one of these players? Is it any good?”
“I wouldn't have thought so, given the fact that billing is handled by O2. They can't bill you if you're not a customer. And the device probably makes use of O2's GPRS access points exclusively...
By the way, does anyone have one of these players? Is it any good?”
From what I've read it uses ultra-low bitrates, so I wouldn't guess so.
Not that I'd expect O2 to think like this, but given I've got a built in MP3 player on my phone (SX1), plus an MMC, I don't want to buy the seperate player, but might be interested in paying for and downloading the songs.
Anyone know if this is technically possible, and if O2 are ever going to let me do it. I'd ask CS, but I really can't be arsed trying to explain it to the incompetents on the other side.
Anyone know if this is technically possible, and if O2 are ever going to let me do it. I'd ask CS, but I really can't be arsed trying to explain it to the incompetents on the other side.
I don't see why not. After all, it's the phone that's downloading the data (music) and passing it to the player over IR. Instead, get the phone to download the music and store it on a Flash card.
The only problem with your particular phone I can see is that the O2 Music Player uses AAC (I think). Some phone players play AAC, don't they? Someone told me the N-Gage and other Nokia Series 60 phones do.
The only problem with your particular phone I can see is that the O2 Music Player uses AAC (I think). Some phone players play AAC, don't they? Someone told me the N-Gage and other Nokia Series 60 phones do.
Thinking about it, I can't see how difficult it would be to implement on Series 60 phones. Use WAP to navigate the online catalogue of tracks and handle downloads to the MMC just like download of premium Java games. Get O2 to make a Symbian app to handle AAC decryption and playback of the downloaded tracks.It could work.
For instance, they could market the service as being fully compatible - no extra devices needed - with Nokia Series 60 phones, and for all other phones with IR and GPRS, buy the addon DMP.
For instance, they could market the service as being fully compatible - no extra devices needed - with Nokia Series 60 phones, and for all other phones with IR and GPRS, buy the addon DMP.
Originally Posted by jonat8:
“The only problem with your particular phone I can see is that the O2 Music Player uses AAC (I think). Some phone players play AAC, don't they? Someone told me the N-Gage and other Nokia Series 60 phones do.”
“The only problem with your particular phone I can see is that the O2 Music Player uses AAC (I think). Some phone players play AAC, don't they? Someone told me the N-Gage and other Nokia Series 60 phones do.”
Maybe not out of the box, but I should be able to on 3rd party software. Now if only I can could find a useful email address to send this to.........
Looks like Vodafone in Germany have it sussed without a "music player", supports SX1... 
http://www.ovum.com/go/content/c,43770
http://www.ovum.com/go/content/c,43770
