Review: Electric Pocket's "Flipside" MP3 player for BlackBerry
From
PalmAddicts:
Flipside seamlessly and greatly enhances the built-in BlackBerry music player by placing additional functionality and much-needed eye-candy.
Flipside takes the MP3s installed on your device or SD card and pulls their album/CD covers and presents them in glorious full color for a more visually appealing interface as you scroll through your various playlists, artists and songs. Creating and editing playlists on the fly is much easier and intuitive than the native music player.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
FlipSide for BlackBerry review (in Italian)
If you can read this:
Flipside MP3 Player, prodotto da ElectricPocket, e' un programma per palmari BlackBerry RIM per la riproduzione di brani musicali nei formati piu' diffusi tra cui MP3, WMA e AAC. La nuova versione di Flipside introduce il supporto al modello BlackBerry Storm 9500. E' su questo modello che abbiamo testato questa applicazione che comunque ha le stesse funzionalità delle versioni disponibili per palmari BlackBerry tradizionali dotati di trackball. La versione per il BlackBerry Storm sfrutta ovviamente la possibilità di orientare lo schermo sia in orizzontale che in verticale.
You'll enjoy the FlipSide review by
BlackBerryItalia.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
Review: FlipSide for BlackBerry
From
BlackBerryInsight:
The FlipSide player is an essential tool for any music fanatic and manages to improve the output of he Blackberry phone. It is compatible with almost any Blackberry that comes with a trackball and its user friendliness and support give it a large fan base.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
Quick Review: FlipSide for BlackBerry
From
PDA-247:
Devices like the BlackBerry Bold and Storm have incredibly good audio quality, but the built-in music software is nothing more than a list of the albums and songs you have installed. It works quite efficiently with the trackball, but could do with some sprucing up when you compare it to the iPhone etc.
FlipSide from ElectricPocket does the ‘sprucing up’ for BlackBerry owners and provides a rich experience that takes searching through large amounts of music and gathering extra information to a new and surprisingly gratifying level. I have many, many albums loaded on my Bold and a quick experiment of attempting to download album art proved very successful. Of over 100 albums, only 4 could not be found and many of my albums are what you may call slightly obscure. When you click on an album cover the tracks contained within are listed, and you then scroll through them to choose the one you wish to play. I tried to do a screenshot of the track listing, but snapscreen just removed the listing before the shot was taken?
Choosing FlipSide Extras from the menu will take you to a page at last.fm detailing release information and recommendations for similar music. This appears to then link to Wikipedia for further information and the whole process works very well indeed.
FlipSide does not change the way the music sounds and is in practice no quicker than the built-in music software, but it changes the ‘experience’ of playing music on a mobile device and is now my preferred method of mobile music management. It is good value for $19.95 and adds a touch of class to any business orientated BlackBerry. Also available for Windows Mobile devices.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
FlipSide for BlackBerry review
From
BlackBerry Rocks!:
Something else that is awesome about this application is that it has THE BEST shuffle mode compared to the other MP3 applications I’ve played with. The others seem to be set on some sort of pattern or mathematical whatever, but FlipSide’s shuffle is really random. I know there are people that can appreciate a good shuffle mode, especially if you don’t want to know what’s going to play next. Sometimes it makes it more interesting versus hearing a set playlist.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
FlipSide for Windows Mobile
From
AppScout:
Electric Pocket, a mobile developer, announced that their FlipSide MP3 player app is now available for Windows Mobile cell phones.
FlipSide first rose to prominence on the BlackBerry platform, where it let users scroll through album covers using the handset's navigation controls. The Windows
Mobile version takes it one step further, letting users flick through their music collections with an iPhone-like finger swipe (if your WM handset has a touchscreen). The space bar, meanwhile, can start, pause, or skip songs.
The company said that as with other versions, FlipSide for
Windows Mobile downloads and displays each album's cover art, and links to FlipSide Extras for artist bios and recommendations. The app plays music stored on memory cards in both MP3 and WMA formats. It costs $19.95; a free trial is available at
flipside.fm.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
Review of FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry
From
PalmAddicts:
I am a music and podcast junkie. Before I got my BlackBerry with a 4GB card, I always kept my iPod mini with me to listen to music on the go. After I got a 4GB card for dirt cheap on Black Friday, I decided to buy
FlipSide for BlackBerry. They also make a Windows Mobile version as well, and I'll probably get that for my Epix too.
FlipSide is a really simple to use and read mp3 player. The first thing that you will notice is the simple navigation for the BB trackball. just flick the trackball, and you are scrolling through your albums on your memory card. Click to play. Can't get simpler than that.
For all of you fans of last.fm, this program also scrobbles your music to last.fm if you setup your account information.
I like this program so much better thant the media program on my Bold just for the album art, and it even searches for album art to use. FlipSide is definately a good way to get at your music simply, and I know I will be installing this on every BB and Windows Mobile device I have.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
FlipSide MP3 player review
From
PDA-247:
FlipSide does not change the way the music sounds and is in practice no quicker than the built-in music software, but it changes the ‘experience’ of playing music on a mobile device and is now my preferred method of mobile music management. It is good value for $19.95 and adds a touch of class to any business orientated BlackBerry. Also available for Windows Mobile devices.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
Review: FlipSide MP3 Player for Blackberry
If you have a Blackberry and use it to listen to music, you may or may not be a fan of the built-in Media player. Sure, it’s handy to have a program already there, but you may want something more… Meet FlipSide from Electric Pocket.
Overall, I am pleased with this player. If you’re one of those Blackberry Addicts who loves to have their music on them at all times and doesn’t want to carry a bunch of gadgets, then FlipSide will definitely help make your Blackberry a “jack of all trades” that much more.
Full review.Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3
ZDNet's video reviews of Electric Pocket's BlackBerry apps
I never thought too much about 3rd party application support for the BlackBerry, but I am finding there are actually lots of cool applications and utilities to let you do even more with the device. Three of the latest applications from Electric Pocket that I have had a few weeks to play with are Ringo, PhoneFace Speed Dialer, and Flipside.
See the video review here.Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, PhoneFace, Ringo, ringtones
LobsterTunes review
It should come as no surprise that the lobster is among the most musically inclined members of the animal kingdom. (Actually, that should come as a total surprise, since we totally made it up.)
Perhaps Electric Pocket knows something special about these marine crustaceans that made them name their mobile music streaming utility LobsterTunes. (Could it be a B52s reference?) This $19.95 utility, used in conjunction with media server software running on a PC, will let you stream your music collection to your Internet-connected Windows Mobile device.
We put LobsterTunes on a Vista Home Premium system and used the built-in Windows Media Player 11 as our media server, though LobsterTunes also claims compatibility with other media servers, like TVersity, that support DLNA and UPnP. The LobsterTunes install wizard also installed a mobile client on our T-Mobile Dash (running Windows Mobile 6), and detecting the lack of necessary media encoding software, downloaded and installed Windows Media Encoder 9 on our Vista PC. Before taking to the road with the Dash, we first had to configure WMP 11 to share media with our mobile device. LobsterTunes doesn't do this for you automatically, but it does step you through the process.
When we fired up LobsterTunes on the Dash from the Wi-Fi hotspot at our local Panera, the software took only about ten seconds to locate and connect to our media server back home, aided by a UPnP-compatible router that automatically opens the appropriate network ports.
Full review here.Labels: Electric Pocket, LobsterTunes, MP3, Windows Mobile
Bangkok Post review of Ringo
The
Bangkok Post newspaper in Thailand published a review of Electric Pocket's Ringo. Here are some excerpts:
"From my experience of using one and reviewing many, I know that Windows Mobile devices have their own strengths. Unfortunately, ring tone customisation isn't one of them.
On a vanilla WM unit, you can set only one personal ring tone for all incoming calls. And before you can do so, you need to add your favourite music files to the ring tone list in the phone settings. Why Windows Mobile asks you to go so far to accomplish so little is beyond me."
"Luckily, if you want to really customise ring tones and SMS tones on your WM device for caller ID purpose or simply just for fun - and who wouldn't - there are many utilities to choose from. Electric Pocket's Ringo is one of them. Here is a small utility that only does what it's supposed to do, nothing more, nothing less. But it does its job very well.
With clean and simple interface, ring tones and SMS tones can be quickly and easily assigned to each person, each group, or all incomings. Unlike Windows Mobile, Ringo lets you select any sound file from any directory - both on device and memory card, with ease. It also supports multiple file types (MP3, WAV and WMA), even for SMS tones.
In addition to ring tone management, Ringo is also capable of dealing with unidentified and unknown call groups. This ability, as well as its capability to silent selected incoming calls, makes it suitable for caller ID screening as well.
So if you want to customise your ring tones and SMS tones, give Ringo a try. It's a breeze to use."
Labels: Electric Pocket, MP3, Ringo, ringtones, Windows Mobile
Speak Czech? Here's a FlipSide post for you...
Electric Pocket Limited na trh vypouští nový program pro Windows Mobile – MP3 přehrávač FlipSide, který byl doposud dostupný pouze pro BlackBerry. Hlavní věcí, kterou se bude snažit zaujmout, je uživatelské prostředí ve stylu iPhone.
Full post here.Labels: BlackBerry, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
FlipSide for Windows Mobile review
One great example of providing a friendlier face to a Windows Mobile application is
Electric Pocket's FlipSide. As someone who uses Windows Media Player on my Windows Mobile phone quite frequently, I have to say that the "drill-down" approach that Windows Media Player uses to get to my music can be quite frustrating and, well, bland. FlipSide provides a finger-friendly and visual way of interacting with your music collection.
Read the full review.Labels: Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
I hate shellfish, but I love LobsterTunes
I came across Lobster Tunes while searching for other ways to make Orb work with Windows Mobile. This program works really slick with any uPnP media streaming, even Windows Media Player 11.
It lets me search any of my directories that I have setup with Orb for music, and it lets me stream that file over the AT&T network (since the Blackjack II doesn't have WiFi). Great if I really need to listen to the podcast I don't have with me but I left at home.
It also plays files stored locally on the device or memory card, plus has a list of online radio stations ready to go, without having to mess with your bandwidth at home. It even plays my songs sideloaded from Napster with ease.
Looks like LobsterTunes is one shellfish I'm going to keep an eye on all the time!
Full review is here.
Labels: Electric Pocket, LobsterTunes, MP3, Windows Mobile
FlipSide - “CoverFlow” for PocketPC
FlipSide is an excellent tool for people wanting to add a bit of “visual oomph” to their MP3 collection. It’s unique internet features stand out from the crowd of rather boring(but feature-packed) media players
The full review is here.Labels: Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
PopMusicScene: FlipSide Giveaway
Our first
Pop Music Scene contest. Wooohoo. Here’s your chance to win a
FlipSide MP3 Player for your phones. Smartphones specifically, i.e
Blackberry and
Windows Mobile.
Go to the contest.Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
SmartDeviceCentral: MP3 Tips
Upgrade Your MP3 Player software. Many smartphones these days come with decent built-in MP3 players, such as Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, Pocket Tunes on Palm OS devices, and the newer multimedia-enhanced Nokia handsets. If not, upgrade. For example, the full version of Pocket Tunes 4.0 ($37.99, www.pocket-tunes.com) adds AAC, aacPlus, album art, and Internet radio support. Meanwhile, Electric Pocket's FlipSide ($19.95, www.electricpocket.com) works on trackball-based BlackBerry devices as well as Windows Mobile handsets. It displays full-color album art, retrieves missing artwork, lets you create playlists right on the device, and supports MP3, AAC, WMA, and M4A (but not DRM-enabled) formats.
For the full article, click here.
Labels: BlackBerry, Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Windows Mobile
Impressions: Flipside music player on Windows Mobile
Blackberry users have been enjoying the Flipside music player for a good little while now, but it’s time for the WM junkies to get in on the action! The great thing is they’ve adapted the interface for smartphone and touch-screen users, so both camps can get their flip on.
Read the full review here.Labels: Electric Pocket, FlipSide, MP3, Smartphones, Windows Mobile
