Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

[Chip Marshall]

On 9/22/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/07, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> > I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load
> > this thing up with music.
>
>   Oh, I'm sure you'll be able to load music.  You'll just have to pay
> though the nose to do so.  That is Verizon's MO.

I've come across at least one Verizon phone that defaulted to being able
to play WMA only, but there was an option to enable MP3 playback in
the firmware.

I've also heard that some phones won't play back MP3s unless they were
loaded with the VZW Music software, which can be gotten, along with a
data cable, for ~$30. I'm guessing it does some sort of database update,
similar to how iPods operate. Although I suppose it might just transcode
them to WMA before loading them onto the card.

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