The responses I've had via email from the team following my post above have been phenomenal. These guys truly are listening to our feedback and they really care about their product.
Outstanding job to all of the gang at Nokia podcasting!
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Thanks,
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AleX
I listen to some long (1hour+) podcasts and I've actually stopped using Nokia Podcasting because it's too annoying to try and find where I was each time I resume listening after a break. Instead I us my PC to break long podcasts into 5 minute segments and listen to them in the nokia music player.
A useability issue that hasn't been mentioned is Rewind and Fast Forward - these keys should not have dual functions. Too often I've accidentally ended up skipping to the end/beginning of the file when attempting to rewind or fast forward. That's not a problem on a 3 minute song, but it's a big pain on a 1 hour podcast. Put a "restart podcast", "next podcast" and "previous podcast" items in the options menu instead.
]]>It's really nice that Nokia makes this application available to owners of older Nokia devices too, rather than just bundling it in the firmware of new ones. I hope that doesn't change. I mean, the Podcasting team isn't just waiting for the launch of N96, making the app available only with newer devices, right? I'm just concerned because newer versions of the app used to be released much more frequently than this.
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