On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:16:19 +1200
Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I bought a Nokia 5510 from them a couple months ago, for $269. It's a
> cell phone with a full querty key layout (I use txt msgs quite a lot),
> a built in radio, and a built in 64mb mp3 player. I was thinking of
> buying an mp3 player and a phone seperately at some stage, so when I
> saw this phone, it was the mp3 player that sold me on it. 
> 
> Of course I'd never have bought it if I thought I couldn't get it to
> play nice with linux, but I read up on it before I bought it (pays to
> do your homework), and with a kernel patch and a couple hours messing
> around, it works perfectly :-)

When I did my homework (a while ago) I discovered that it worked as a
storage device but not as a player due to the DRM system employed by the
phone firmware; don't you need to encrypt the mp3s before uploading
them? and how?

cheers
--
Delio

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