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best on-demand music service for me (dinc) and wife (bb)?

so i'm currently on napster... which is a great value at 5 bucks a month, but no mobile app so looking to switch.
rhapsody works great on my phone but they don't have (yet) a bb application so my wife and i can both utilize the subscription, so i'm thinking i need to look elsewhere.
the only one i can find now that works for both bb and dinc would be thumbplay. anyone have experience with this service? is it at least as good as rhapsody?
anyone have other suggestions of services and apps that would work on both the dinc and my wifes storm?
the primary need/want is on-demand streaming (i.e. not just radio... but specific albums, artists, etc.).
thanks!

Try grooveshark, it's only $3 a month or $30 a year.Looks like it works for bb except bb storm.
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byproxy said:
so i'm currently on napster... which is a great value at 5 bucks a month, but no mobile app so looking to switch.
rhapsody works great on my phone but they don't have (yet) a bb application so my wife and i can both utilize the subscription, so i'm thinking i need to look elsewhere.
the only one i can find now that works for both bb and dinc would be thumbplay. anyone have experience with this service? is it at least as good as rhapsody?
anyone have other suggestions of services and apps that would work on both the dinc and my wifes storm?
the primary need/want is on-demand streaming (i.e. not just radio... but specific albums, artists, etc.).
thanks!
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Thumbplay Music offers a free trial so definitely give it a try. I'm confident you will be happy with the Music Selection, the Feature Set and device footprint. If you need any more information feel free to reach out to me directly - [email protected]

mbiondo said:
Thumbplay Music offers a free trial so definitely give it a try. I'm confident you will be happy with the Music Selection, the Feature Set and device footprint. If you need any more information feel free to reach out to me directly - [email protected]
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I use Grooveshark and love it. Their free trial is as easy as it gets. I am, however, curious about Thumbplay Music. After the free trial, what are their monthly rates?

pandora is free
works awsome and is free the more you listen the more you refine the better the station

mbiondo said:
Thumbplay Music offers a free trial so definitely give it a try. I'm confident you will be happy with the Music Selection, the Feature Set and device footprint. If you need any more information feel free to reach out to me directly - [email protected]
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what's the difference between thumbplay and pandora or slacker?

Last.fm all the way. Has the best music selection by far if your taste is a little off the beaten path. It's also built into the XBox 360 dashboard, which is nice if you have one.

mbiondo said:
Thumbplay Music offers a free trial so definitely give it a try. I'm confident you will be happy with the Music Selection, the Feature Set and device footprint. If you need any more information feel free to reach out to me directly - [email protected]
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this is $10 a month? That's crazy!

You might want to check out RDIO. They're newer than the other services, but it looks like the breadth of their library is pretty decent.

Mr. Spontaneous said:
You might want to check out RDIO. They're newer than the other services, but it looks like the breadth of their library is pretty decent.
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Rdio IS very nice, but the price tag of $10/mo is too much unless you listen to it all day every day

i used rhapsody, great service, but very sucky Android app.
i used MOG, also a good service, but the app didn't wanna cooperate with 2.2. it would play 2 minutes or so of a song and then skip to the next.
right now i am using Rdio and it's working flawlessly. they are updating the app very frequently which is nice to see.

OP, Why not use Pandora or slacker?
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[Q] WunderRadio says I need Flash when I already have it!?

I am rooted and ROM's with the hack kit and inspired_dhd_vfr series, and all is well.
Except...
I installed WunderRadio in order to listen to my Sirius account, but when I tried to log in to Sirius within the Wunder app, it told me I need to get the Flash player. The message directed me to the market link for com.adobe.flashplayer, but said I do not have permission to go there. So, I went to the market on the Desire and installed Flash 10.1, but that did not change the result.
I do have WunderRadio happily playing my Sirius account on my rooted G-Tab, so this apparently has something to do with running Flash on the Desire within the inspired_dhd_vfr series ROM.
Adobe's web site says I am running Flash 10.1.106.16, so this is puzzling.
Any help would be much appreciated.

does flash work for you on other sites? I've had to tell other sites with flash to load the desktop version before it would work.
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mattbollenbach said:
does flash work for you on other sites? I've had to tell other sites with flash to load the desktop version before it would work.
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Seems to work fine at web flash sites.

smalis said:
Seems to work fine at web flash sites.
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Not sure why youre using wunderradio to listen to your sirius xm account when there is a free sirius xm app in the marketplace. I used to use wunderradio but found tunein radio to be better and free

SysAdmNj said:
Not sure why youre using wunderradio to listen to your sirius xm account when there is a free sirius xm app in the marketplace. I used to use wunderradio but found tunein radio to be better and free
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You are right there is a free sirius app. However it does not work with the people that have the original free online accounts that sirius use to give when you subscribed with a sat radio. About 2 years they had 2 internet accounts the free one and a premium (higher kb/s) for a few bucks more a month. A few months later they then said the free accounts were going to be terminated unless you locked in your subscription. I called and locked in for 5 years so I still have my free online account.
The premium account is the only one that will work with the free apps that Sirius is using now. It will not work with the free one. In windows mobile there was a few user made apps that worked with the free account now I believe SIRIUSWM6 is the only app that works now.
Wunderradio & Sirius used to work on my Androidphone but it does the same thing now with the flash. Last month Sirius changed there website around when you log into the online listing page. This change is what threw off wunderradio. I just hope they fix it. Im now booting into wm6 on my hd2 just to listen to Sirius.

waynestatemac said:
You are right there is a free sirius app. However it does not work with the people that have the original free online accounts that sirius use to give when you subscribed with a sat radio. About 2 years they had 2 internet accounts the free one and a premium (higher kb/s) for a few bucks more a month. A few months later they then said the free accounts were going to be terminated unless you locked in your subscription. I called and locked in for 5 years so I still have my free online account.
The premium account is the only one that will work with the free apps that Sirius is using now. It will not work with the free one. In windows mobile there was a few user made apps that worked with the free account now I believe SIRIUSWM6 is the only app that works now.
Wunderradio & Sirius used to work on my Androidphone but it does the same thing now with the flash. Last month Sirius changed there website around when you log into the online listing page. This change is what threw off wunderradio. I just hope they fix it. Im now booting into wm6 on my hd2 just to listen to Sirius.
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Exactly right, the Sirius app does not work with my subscription. However, I have a lifetime subscription, so I should automatically have been "locked in", yes? Maybe I will give Sirius a call about this.
Funny thing is that WunderRadio does work on my Viewsonic G-Tab, running Vegan 5.1.1 ROM, but not on the Inspire.

Also, I can listen online on my PC, but when I try to do so on the Inspire in a browser, a flash login screen comes up, and it does not take input from the keyboard. Sometimes, it does not even bring up the keyboard. Very frustrating.

smalis said:
Exactly right, the Sirius app does not work with my subscription. However, I have a lifetime subscription, so I should automatically have been "locked in", yes? Maybe I will give Sirius a call about this.
Funny thing is that WunderRadio does work on my Viewsonic G-Tab, running Vegan 5.1.1 ROM, but not on the Inspire.
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They will probably tell you the same thing as they did me. They said I could pay $2.99 more a month and upgrade the free account to the premium which will work with the Sirius phone apps. I've been hoping that since their is only a few of us left with the free account that they will just upgrade us all for free, doubt it though. I've been a member before Howard you think they would throw me a bone. For now I will just boot to WM6.5 on my HD2 to listen to Sirius.
Also I had Wunderradio working for awhile after the webpage switch on my HD2. I believe I cleared the cache from the browser and that is when it quit working correctly. I think it erased all the old information from the old site and now was trying to access the new site. So don't clear your cache on the G-Tab!!

OK, so I called Sirius. They want $3/month to "upgrade" me to "premium mobile service." Although, it seems to me that since I can listen on my PC, I would be able to listen on my phone if I had a Windows phone? So this is just an IPhone/Android restriction? Seems bogus to me.

waynestatemac said:
They will probably tell you the same thing as they did me. They said I could pay $2.99 more a month and upgrade the free account to the premium which will work with the Sirius phone apps. I've been hoping that since their is only a few of us left with the free account that they will just upgrade us all for free, doubt it though. I've been a member before Howard you think they would throw me a bone. For now I will just boot to WM6.5 on my HD2 to listen to Sirius.
Also I had Wunderradio working for awhile after the webpage switch on my HD2. I believe I cleared the cache from the browser and that is when it quit working correctly. I think it erased all the old information from the old site and now was trying to access the new site. So don't clear your cache on the G-Tab!!
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Exactly right, I posted just as you were posting.
It would be nice if it worked on the Inspire, but I can always take the G-Tab with me it I need it. Great device, once rooted and ROM'd!

smalis said:
OK, so I called Sirius. They want $3/month to "upgrade" me to "premium mobile service." Although, it seems to me that since I can listen on my PC, I would be able to listen on my phone if I had a Windows phone? So this is just an IPhone/Android restriction? Seems bogus to me.
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Hey Smalis,
Jeez so the same for you even though your bought a lifetime subscription, what a bummer.
Also Sirius doesn't support Windows Mobile, so basically we Sirius listens have been relaying on some good programmers to make us up apps to make it work.
I've had windows mobile phones since 2001 and somebody started making their own Sirius app about 6-7 years ago. That went good for awhile then Sirius I think made him stop distributing the app or paid him some money to stop the software so that went down for awhile. Then somebody else made anther one, and anther and so on. I think I've went threw maybe 4 different programs or more. The best was app that somebody made was called Sxradio2 it would show cd covers for the songs playing and Howard's face on h100 and h101. However that went down after the website change and now they posted they wont fix the software because there doing some other work. Now I got anther program called SiriusWM6 that works pretty good for now.
I feel its just a matter of time though till this goes down too though. With windows mobile 6.5 dieing out due to the new WM7 and competition from the Iphone and Android, I think there will be little developers to fix or build the software for WM6.5.
Also I dont know if you know about the HD2 its a WM6.5 phone with basically the EVO hardware inside. They are now able to take Android and we can pretty much dual boot the phone to WM6.5 or Android. I also seen they have WM7 running on the HD2 as well but have not tried it out yet. Pretty neat device with 3 operating systems!

Anyone tried using T-MOBIL TV.

Anyone tried using T-MOBIL TV

I have. Opened it up, set up my trial, and set a Google calendar reminder to cancel before I get charged. Most of the live channels suck IMO, but a few decent sports ones I guess. The on demand section however is actually solid I think.

TV
If you want to buy something later for TMobile TV, buy the app TV Shows Stream. It is off the chain

i signed up for the trial and also set up a reminder to cancel within 30 days.. unfortunately i returned my g2x and forgot to cancel the service. is there anyway else i can cancel it?

Yea don't install it. I downloaded an APK somewhere just to try it and I found they started charging me $10 a month.
Plus it sucked. I got like 3 news shows and everything else was a bad stream.

Having live cable news in my pocket is pretty cool, but not worth 12.99 a month.

Spyvie said:
Having live cable news in my pocket is pretty cool, but not worth 12.99 a month.
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You got that right.

segfault82 said:
i signed up for the trial and also set up a reminder to cancel within 30 days.. unfortunately i returned my g2x and forgot to cancel the service. is there anyway else i can cancel it?
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I would say call customer care, but they won't do it. Call T-Mobile tech support, if you get the right rep it is 5 minute call. If that.

Yes, it sucks. I got SlingBox instead and it's a million times better. As for getting money back. I did the same thing too and let the trial go too long. I just got money credited onto my account and the next month's bill was lower. Shouldn't be a problem to get it.

Yeah on Sprint it's the same company but only $10/month. That's still a little steep IMO, but kinda nice to have live TV on demand.

rbryinc said:
If you want to buy something later for TMobile TV, buy the app TV Shows Stream. It is off the chain
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I have to agree. It's awesome. They also just came out with a movie stream.

The streams I've tried seem to work - but the sound is so low it's useless.

Spotify?

Anybody using it?
And can you invite me in?
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I have a LOT of invites But i don't know if i can invite people in the U.S ?
Give me a e-mail and i`ll try
Edit: You have 39 invitations left.
Edit2: Don`t need e-mail, just these codes
Hurry up and snatch one
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I have left you an pm

Radeon1337 said:
I have a LOT of invites But i don't know if i can invite people in the U.S ?
Give me a e-mail and i`ll try
Edit: You have 39 invitations left.
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Sent a PM.
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I just started using it (US). It seems pretty cool.
Android and iPhone apps are now up in the respective markets.

I used a proxy and signed up. But dont see the point, since the free account only lets you sync music from your PC. To listen to the streaming service, you need the 10 dollar per month package.

tornadog said:
I used a proxy and signed up. But dont see the point, since the free account only lets you sync music from your PC. To listen to the streaming service, you need the 10 dollar per month package.
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Well here in sweden i'm been using this service for over a year. And it is (by far)the best i've ever used. Sure they don't have every single artist, but there is so many I don't really feel the need for more.

I like it on my but $10 is a bit much for mobile streaming.
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david279 said:
I like it on my but $10 is a bit much for mobile streaming.
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After all, $ 10 is too high a price. Available only 15 million songs. You can listen anywhere, anytime and can listen many different devices (mobile, pc etc.) I would rather buy the $ 10 album containing 12 tracks... No. no no .. I should have to think first what to say.
American network operators the pricing and quality is ****ed up. But many believe it is a lesser evil than $ 10 per month.

Spotify will not stay online
Anyone else having trouble on the Transformer? My dell streak will work ok, but the transformer keeps dumping to offline even though wifi is fine and all other apps are staying connected.

Bohemian said:
Anyone else having trouble on the Transformer? My dell streak will work ok, but the transformer keeps dumping to offline even though wifi is fine and all other apps are staying connected.
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Known bug in Spotify on Honeycomb. Solution is easy but harsh: never make playlists offline available.
As long as you stream everything - you're okay. If you make a playlist offline available, it'll sync the first time and after that it'll keep saying it's disconnected.
And it's definitely worth the 10 bucks, I've been paying it for months and months (in Europe) and it saved me a ****load of money or time. If I had to buy all the music I've listened from Spotify, I'd had to sell my TF to pay the bills. Maybe even twice...
If your musictaste is pretty "conservative", not always looking for new stuff and getting addicted to it - it might indeed not be worth the money.

It's totaly worth it to have a paid subscription, i pay for premium
I use spotify all the time (at home, party's, cell phone etc)
The majority of the music i listen to is on spotify and i don't listen to comecial radio music

Gibeon said:
Known bug in Spotify on Honeycomb. Solution is easy but harsh: never make playlists offline available.
As long as you stream everything - you're okay. If you make a playlist offline available, it'll sync the first time and after that it'll keep saying it's disconnected.
And it's definitely worth the 10 bucks, I've been paying it for months and months (in Europe) and it saved me a ****load of money or time. If I had to buy all the music I've listened from Spotify, I'd had to sell my TF to pay the bills. Maybe even twice...
If your musictaste is pretty "conservative", not always looking for new stuff and getting addicted to it - it might indeed not be worth the money.
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Deleting my offline content worked. How long has this been a known issue? I hope it is on a priority fix list.
I can have local content offline though without the bug happening.

Man, I totally want to try this. On Rdio right now. Can someone hit me up with an invitation?

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Man, I totally want to try this. On Rdio right now. Can someone hit me up with an invitation?
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Sure. What's your E-mail? You can send it to me via PM.

After using the desktop(MAC) client i really like the service. It makes me really want to get the premium app. Question does the android app stream my music on my computer to my android or does it simply sync it to my android?

david279 said:
After using the desktop(MAC) client i really like the service. It makes me really want to get the premium app. Question does the android app stream my music on my computer to my android or does it simply sync it to my android?
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The android client works like the PC client

I still can't get it work. Every time I choose a song, I get an info bar with no info and an OK box to click. It reads my TF on my network, but it won't stream any music. I had no online playlists (I deleted everything just to make sure).
It works well on my PC--a lot of great music that seems to stream more quickly than Google Music.

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I still can't get it work. Every time I choose a song, I get an info bar with no info and an OK box to click. It reads my TF on my network, but it won't stream any music. I had no online playlists (I deleted everything just to make sure).
It works well on my PC--a lot of great music that seems to stream more quickly than Google Music.
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I deleted everything on my TF and reinstalled the app seems to work now...
works nice on my phone (htc sensation) with offline stuff.

vartanov said:
I deleted everything on my TF and reinstalled the app seems to work now...
works nice on my phone (htc sensation) with offline stuff.
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I reinstalled it, but still no go. I'm running Prime 1.5 & Netformer. Alas.
Great on the PC. I just walked down Memory Lane with everything by Kraftwerk. Life went by too fast--I used to be cutting edge! LOL

3 gigs left, really

So I have really nothing on my One X, a few apps but I just uploaded about 5 gigs of music, a measly 740 songs and I'm left with only slightly over 3 gigs of storage left.
I've tried Google Music for the past few days and maybe its my location, but on my usual jog every morning it seems to not load all the time, and its also a battery drain vs playing from the stock player with music on the device.
I like this phone, but to only have this low amount of storage left is a deal breaker for me.

Why not try dropbox or google drive? I got an extra 28gb this morning on db just fooling around
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Why not try dropbox or google drive? I got an extra 28gb this morning on db just fooling around
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Won't the streaming be a killer on battery life and the data plan? This is the main reason I haven't embraced cloud storage.. besides the fact that I'm paranoid about putting my data just "out there" like that.

I have the unlimited data plan, and rarely worry about that... But heck I'm not sure ...
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Reamer09 said:
Won't the streaming be a killer on battery life and the data plan? This is the main reason I haven't embraced cloud storage.. besides the fact that I'm paranoid about putting my data just "out there" like that.
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Yes it will drain ur battery quickly
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Why not try dropbox or google drive? I got an extra 28gb this morning on db just fooling around
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Because he likely doesn't have an unlimited data plan. He likely wants the easy solution of having immediate access to all of his media right on his phone.
I have it worse. I used to carry a few movies on my phone with me and watch them while I work in the office. Now I bring my movies in on a wifi drive and copy them to my phone 1 by 1 to watch them. Annoying workaround but it gets me by.
This "cloud" BS doesn't work. I don't understand how people are expected to use 28GB of "cloud" storage and NOT go over their data cap. Especially with 1.5 GB movies.

I stream from work and during my workouts, and the hit to battery isn't all that bad to be honest. I get home with 50% or so remaining without fail.
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To add insult to injury, you can only disconnect 4 devices from google music in a year. What's that mean? Well when we get an unlocked bootloader and decide to load roms, I hope you aren't loading them often because each new rom is a new tethered device to your google music account. Womp womppppp

No, I do have Unlimited Data on ATT, that's not the issue.
The issue is a great phone crippled with no storage, I'd rather play music from my phone, load some movies to watch when on an airplane or something, but with the One X, you just can't do it, well yes you can but you have to become a media manager. Why?
I had the International One X when it came out, plenty of room with 32 gigs, but the phone was too buggy for me. I live in LTE, but I'd rather have 32 gigs and no LTE then 16 and LTE.
Looks like the GS3 will be my next phone, good thing I have 45 days to return this to Best Buy.

I stream Google music at the gym daily. It can eat up your data. But battery is just fine...
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cpcrazyfly said:
I stream Google music at the gym daily. It can eat up your data. But battery is just fine...
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From what ive read, google music's bitrate makes it's streaming eat 4x more data per song than pandora.

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From what ive read, google music's bitrate makes it's streaming eat 4x more data per song than pandora.
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I wonder if that is with Pandora set to "normal" (versus "high") audio quality, which is default. That bitrate sounds awful, and I can't stand it.

Just loaded my music on the One X and went for my usual run.
One hour of music from the player with the battery at 99% when I started, came back and it was only at 97%.
When I used Google Music, it would be around 87%.

For all the people complaining about movies, check out an app called plex. I have a 5 terrabyte system with windows that i have plex server installed on. Its a really easy set up and allows access to all your media on the server. Only issue is that you have to have the pc on all the time. You can have access to thousands of movies or tv shows that you have downloaded. Here are some screen shots of the app. Both my friend and I have servers and you can connect to multiple and stream to each others movies. The server is free, you just have to pay for the android app. (i am not associated with plex lol).

USB host mode getting enabled would solve lots of issues. There's a 64 GB flash drive on woot today for 30 bucks.

All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.

bothfly said:
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
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margins
16 GB costs less than 32 or 64

bothfly said:
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
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Not a clue. I would wish we could have had removable storage but i assume because they wanted the unibody form factor and the slimness of it, that there wasnt room. However, i am not sure why they changed from 32gb to 16gb. The memory cant be all that different in size.

jason.hamilton said:
For all the people complaining about movies, check out an app called plex. I have a 5 terrabyte system with windows that i have plex server installed on. Its a really easy set up and allows access to all your media on the server. Only issue is that you have to have the pc on all the time. You can have access to thousands of movies or tv shows that you have downloaded. Here are some screen shots of the app. Both my friend and I have servers and you can connect to multiple and stream to each others movies. The server is free, you just have to pay for the android app. (i am not associated with plex lol).
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My Verizon router blocks Plex. I haven't been able to find a way around it. But that absolutely does not work for people with limited data plans....

bothfly said:
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
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My question would be, why did you buy the phone knowing what the storage capacity would be and knowing what you wanted to do with it, then come on here and complain about it?
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