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Nokia takes the lead in bringing podcasts to mobile and I think that’s great news!

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 at gotomobile.com, now the beta application for the Nokia N91 is available for download here. Thanks for the tip, Steven!

Steven at Nokia informs me that this version is compatible with other S60 3rd edition devices, but not optimized for them yet. The beta is English only with the multilanguage version expected late Fall 2006. So for the ones out there with an N91, go out there and try it. For the ones who don’t know me yet, mobile podcasting (also called mobcasting) is one of my favourite mobile applications.

The Nokia Podcasting application allows you to find, subscribe to and download podcasts over the air with your Nokia N91. After downloading a podcast, you can listen to or watch it when you want.

You can choose whether the Podcasting application uses Wireless LAN (requires WLAN network access) or GPRS/WCDMA packet data (requires a packet data plan) to download podcasts to your Nokia N91.

These are the kind of applications that make the difference as to which phone I’m going to buy next, especially since my iPod broke (yes they do!) some time ago.

Now some music recognition and recommendation service (Musicstrands?) build around those radio podcasts and I’m all set to buy mobile music as I would like to… Actually not really, I still need that flat rate data plan from my operator - guys, what are you waiting for?