Downloading Media via Power Vision

Downloading media onto this Samsung A920 has been a breeze when it's working and stupidly clunky when it's not. I can download [on average] four minute songs in about forty-five seconds. Songs downloaded so far:

• Song Cry - Jay Z
• Gold Digger - Kanye West
• Big Pimpin - Jay Z
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
• Longview - Greenday
• Still D.R.E. - Dr. Dre
• Fire - Busta Rhymes
• All I Need - Method Man
• One More Chance - Biggie
• C.R.E.A.M. - Wu Tang
• Shook Ones pt. II - Mobb Deep

It's quite an extensive library they have via Groove Mobile. And the songs come out pretty nicely on the handset itself, on the tinny side, but what the hell do you expect from these tiny speakers? It's actually better than I had expected it to sound. It has two speakers dedicated to media playback. They're on the right and left sides of the phone on the outside of the hinge. I haven't tried to use the supplied headphones just yet.

I'm headed to the gym tonight and I'm gonna try out the headphones and see how they do on the treadmill. A nice feature on this handset is that once the music is playing, you can close the clamshell phone and control the music via a 4-way + center button rocker switch on the outside of the phone. Play/Pause, Next, Back, Shuffle and List are the functions.

But I've had some problems with the Power Vision features in that it'll lock me out every once in awhile. A message will come up saying that I'm not authorized to download such and such feature or that it's not enabled. I'll log into my account on sprintpcs.com and re-enter my Power Vision password and it'll be fixed after it propogates through their servers in like ten to thirty minutes, but it has locked me out a couple times yesterday and today. Dunno if I'm hitting some imposed download limitations I'm not aware of or glitches in the system.

Downloading saps battery life. The battery is generally pretty solid so far. After d/l all of those songs and generally fiddling with it all day today, it went to one bar [out of three]. I still haven't done too much actual talking on the phone yet. Too much fiddling going on. Maybe this weekend I'll have a better chance to try to drain the battery via talking and be able to report talk times.

Comments

[thinkjose]

dragonballyee-

There are some more sightings of the ambassador folks over here http://www.thinkjose.com/article/ambassador-from-sprint-land

So far looks like you are enjoying the phone. Keep me in the loop on what you think of this whole thing. I am very curious to know how and why certain folks were chosen.

thanks

jose

[ajayi]

Shook Ones is one of my all time favorites. It is on every one of my Playlists on the iPod.