At the same event as the previous post, somebody from Motorola was pooh-poohing multimedia streaming and downloads over mobile networks (again) in an attempt to talk up the company’s iRadio product.
Derek Kerton over at Techdirt caught a demo of iRadio, with a Linux-based smartphone connecting to a car stereo. As Motorola is so keen to point out, iRadio content is downloaded over a broadband connection via a computer: “it is batch-synced at night (over home broadband) while the phone is plugged into the USB charging stand (connected to a PC),” Derek says.
Ummm, isn’t that podcasting, the only difference being you have to pay a monthly service fee to your mobile operator? Answers on a postcard, please, to Mobile Music Blog HQ.