Fun little use for the Walkman phone ...

I've found that having an FM Radio built-in to your phone can be fun. (Hell, other than trying to take out the Memory Stick, there's little about the Walkman that isn't fun.) Still, I'm having a bit of ROKR envy when I realize that the answer is there, plain as day ...

I tuned the Radio in the phone to my iTrip (the FM transmitter for the iPod) station, and bingo ... all 20GB of my iPod tracks playing on my phone. I must have sat there slackjawed for a minute or two as I marvelled at the little surprise. Sure, it's a hack, and not the same as the real thing, but the phone does cut off the radio when a call comes in. It won't pause the song, obviously, but otherwise, the functionality is just about the same. The quality is also not as good as a native MP3, but it's more than tolerable.

It's pretty clear now that the ROKR is a still-born platform. Sadly, it's still going to sell, because people just don't realize that there are better, less crippled options available.