[Jason Dunn]

http://www.seeqpod.com/mobile/

"SeeqPod Mobile brings Playable SearchTM to Windows Mobile powered phones and devices (and the upcoming Windows App Marketplace). Now you can use SeeqPod's award-winning* Biomimetic Search & Discovery technology to find playable search results, and Wikipedia articles all from your phone! Get instant playable access to SeeqPod's ever-growing and daily updated archive of Featured PodLists! Experience it all with a wide variety of color themes and one of the most amazing and gorgeous media players ever, with changeable skins in a range of styles."

I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure I've wrapped my brain around exactly what this program does - biomimetic search and discovery? It seems like a search engine that focuses on music, podcasts, video, and other forms of media content. Well, for this weekend only (so the offer ends today), the program is free rather than $9.95 USD. What the heck - grab it now and figure it out later. ;-) The software will work on any device running Windows Mobile 6 or higher, whether that's Windows Mobile Professional or Windows Mobile Standard (I suspect Classic is supported as well).

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.seeqpod.com/mobile/

"SeeqPod Mobile brings Playable SearchTM to Windows Mobile powered phones and devices (and the upcoming Windows App Marketplace). Now you can use SeeqPod's award-winning* Biomimetic Search & Discovery technology to find playable search results, and Wikipedia articles all from your phone! Get instant playable access to SeeqPod's ever-growing and daily updated archive of Featured PodLists! Experience it all with a wide variety of color themes and one of the most amazing and gorgeous media players ever, with changeable skins in a range of styles."

I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure I've wrapped my brain around exactly what this program does - biomimetic search and discovery? It seems like a search engine that focuses on music, podcasts, video, and other forms of media content. Well, for this weekend only (so the offer ends today), the program is free rather than $9.95 USD. What the heck - grab it now and figure it out later. ;-) The software will work on any device running Windows Mobile 6 or higher, whether that's Windows Mobile Professional or Windows Mobile Standard (I suspect Classic is supported as well).

[benjimen]

I don't really quite get the program either, I think because of how they named it combined with minimal explanation of the "biomimetic" functionality. I looked up the term and the definition of it doesn't seem to apply to any of the program's features

Being as it's free, I want to like it... but... Navigation is rather quirky, definitely requires a stylus -- some attempts at fingerability were given here and there, but have the stylus handy for all those tiny little buttons. The keyboard doesn't auto-appear when a text window comes up -- you have to manually bring it up.

I've found while the search box asks for 'song or artist', you can search by pretty much anything: genre, radio station name, etc. You can't advance to a different position in a track, it can only be played from start to finish. Some of the playlists I started were over an hour long -- you're stuck listening to all of it.

As the documentation states, you must use a highspeed connection. Streams worked fine via WiFi, but when I tried them with my T-Mobile EDGE connection, it didn't play well at all -- stuttering, rebuffering, unusable on EDGE.