Solo Technology

I just finished installing BlueCast and am about to head out for a long bike ride to try it out. I’m quite hopeful this will be the answer to my prayers.

And now you’re wondering what BlueCast might be and what does it do? From the site:

BlueCast streams your podcasts, music, voice notes, game sounds, and other audio content to Bluetooth headsets that support the “hands-free” Bluetooth profile.

In other words, all the stuff on your windows mobile phone that you wish would use your Bluetooth headset now works!

I have been looking for something like this all summer. I’ve been doing a lot of long bike rides and often wish I could listen to some tunes or podcasts while riding. However, I’m always worried about a headset cable dropping into a wheel or something…. that would be a disaster. Also, I don’t like having both ears plugged when riding — I can’t hear other riders around me (”I’m on your left!”) and that’s not very safe.

BlueCast will allow me to use my Motorola H350 headset to listen while riding. My only concern is if it will be loud enough (I have no idea how much of a factor wind noise might be). Guess I’ll know when I’m back home in a couple hours!

Notes:

• The site says it works with Windows Mobile 2002, 2003 and 5.0. My phone is 6.0 and it seems to be just fine.
• There might be more to learn about it, but their site is horribly broken right now
• Free trial, sells for $10.
• Might be hard to buy if they don’t get their site fixed…
  • wonder if the trial is time-locked?
• I found the trial at Download.com

2 Responses to “Trying out BlueCast”

1. Chris on August 1st, 2008 10:00 pm
   

   First try did not go well. About 1 minute up the road and the sound stopped.

   Turns out the trial version only plays for 60 seconds.

   Be nice if they’d fix that broken online store soon.

2. Martin on August 7th, 2008 5:48 am
   

   Do you know similar soft for for symbian mobiles?

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