This week continued to rock. Great meetings. Great new connections. Fantastic platform progress on Crowd Fusion. More titles appeared our comic site: Shaman's Tears and Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden.
I even clicked one of the ads on ComicMix for the movie Wanted. I knew it was based on a comic, but it was one I've never read. It has Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman and the trailer got me hooked.
Dear Wanted, Please don't suck! Sincerely, me.
Speaking of disappointments, I have given XM Radio on my BlackBerry Curve the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks. I figured maybe it just doesn't work well near my house -- or in all the small towns in Westchester I've tried it in. But in New York City? In many different neighborhoods? On a weekday? With no clouds?
Anyway, I don't know if it's XM's fault, BlackBerry's fault or AT&T's slow Edge network's fault, but each song should not cut out five to ten times. Listening to XM Radio on my BlackBerry is like listening to Real Audio over a modem in 1996. Very frustrating for eight dollars a month.
Unless XM can tell me how the experience is going to get better, I'm canceling that package. If they tell me it works just fine over a wi-fi connection, that's not enough. Only T-Mobile has the wi-fi option for the BB Curve and in my experience their coverage is poor. Besides, if I was on my home wi-fi network I could just listen to XM over my DirecTV service.
That's too bad since I had high hopes for carrying around XM Radio on my hip.
GrimJack
EZ Street
Jon Sable, Freelance
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Robert Weiss 271 days ago
Must be the slow EDGE network. XM Radio on BB cuts out every 15 seconds. Maybe it will get better as the network upgrades over time.
John 137 days ago
XM for Blackberry works great on sprint. AT&T has probably the slowest mobile network. It's not the XM performance it's carrier. I listen on my way to work on the LIRR everyday, with almost no clipping.