How To Enjoy Streaming Radio on your Xphone II

I am ever so slowly discovering more of the joys of Xphone II ownership, which is a nice change from the evil chagrin the thing's been giving me more often than not.

I finally plumped for a flat-rate GPRS package from my ISP, oops I mean cellular service provider. Oh wait, what's the difference? I dunno, convergance consmergance.

So you do this:

1. Get flat-rate package. Trust me, unless your cellular company charges about a penny a day or something, you don't wanna start worrying about the mounting cost of being online via your mobile phone.

2. Fire up Pocket Internet Explorer or whatever browser and point it at something like Pocket PC magazine's online links list.

3. Choose something like Radio Show Links or Radio4PDA

4. Find a live station, show or on-demand stream you want. If given the option, choose the Windows Media stream.

Windows Media Player should fire up. In the bottom left of the player, above the "Playlist" soft button it should say "Finding", then "Connecting" and, finallly, "Playing"!

WOOT. Sweet or what?

Now (if you're old enough) think back a decade or so to when people were still being blown away by the wonders of 'The Innernet' and try to recall if anybody ever tried to say that we would one day be able to wander around the streets of (in this case,) Southeast Asia listening to live BBC World Service or Radio Five Live streaming via the net to their mobile phone, with almost no buffering and audio quality far better than anything I can remember "enjoying" from the majesty that was AM radio in the oh-so-glorious 1970s.

Now all I need is a sleeptimer for my new bedside radio, a nice cuppa tea and some digestive biscuits. And maybe a tartan blanket for my knees

ZZZZZzzzz.....