Samsung And VoiceIndigo Partner On Mobile Podcasting Service
Apr 9th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Mobile Podcasting, Podcasting Services 
VoiceIndigo has announced a worldwide partnership with Samsung to bring podcasting to Samsung mobile phones. Samsung Mobile Podcasts by VoiceIndigo will be pre-loaded on Samsung mobile phones. The first model with the service is now shipping, the Samsung UpStage.
VoiceIndigo is a free service that lets users manage their podcasts via a simple web interface. The service is designed to make it easy for users to listen to their favorite podcasts anywhere. Categories include sports, comedy, entertainment, news, business, and music.
Users can manage their podcasts via a web interface accessible at and access them through a wide variety of devices, such mobile phones and PCs. As users upgrade their handsets, they do not need to reconfigure their content. Their preferences and content choices are automatically synchronized to the new phone. 
“Samsung Mobile Podcasts puts the consumer back in control by making it easy to obtain personally relevant and compelling programming on the go, from thousands of major content providers,” says John Mayerhofer, CEO of VoiceIndigo.
According to the company, it’s the first advertising-supported podcasting service to ship bundled on a phone from a major handset manufacturer and a major carrier in the United States.
i just got my unit and i tested the podcasting and it works amazingly WELL!!! it was able to start streaming TWiT within a few seconds and it only had to pause to buffer about once 30mins into the podcast. other than that i think this is a pretty neat feature. i no longer have to keep syncing my phone with my computer.
also here’s a good review i found of the phone
http://skattertech.com/2007/04/samsung-upstage-m620-sprint/
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