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Are free Mp3s and podcasts a passing trend?

I love music. Free music is the best.

Even music I pay for is worth the money.

I don't own an IPOD or mp3 player.

I just listen to a lot of music on my computer. My CD collection is my music jukebox, regardless of format.

I have considered getting a mobile mp3 player and recorder so that I can listen to spoken word and music as I commute. But I haven't been willing to shell out the cash for an mp3 player.

Heck I could even use it to dictate my to-do list.

There are so many MP3 players available today. And they're at pretty reasonable prices.

How many MB of music do you need to listen to? Do you download it for free? Free music downloads (legal) aren't a thing of the past.

Although Ipods have an advantage of name recognition due in part to the term PodCasts (and podcasting is hot), there are dozens of competing manufacturers of quality mp3 players.

Do you just want to play mp3s?

Do you want to record into your mp3 player too?

Do you need 128mb, 256mb, 512mb, or 1Gb of storage? Depending on your encoding quality, that could be a lot of music for you to listen to.

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Second in popularity to mp3 players (with respect to mobile type devices) are cell phones. Well, now they're more often call mobile phones. Cell phones and PCS phones are sorta tied to the technology they came from. But both types are mobile.

In an episode of the Apprentice last year, the teams had to design clothing with HOT technology in mind. They created a line of clothing they referred to as "Wearable Tech" that kept in mind that most in-tune americans have cell phones, PDAs, and mp3 players.

Mobile phone commercials are all over TV, radio, and newspaper. They're all over the internet too.

Some websites even show you how your cell phone service provider might allow you to sign up for Amber Alerts for free. When a kid goes missing in the area you indicate (when you sign up for alerts) you get a free (in most cases) text message on your mobile phone.

Text messaging is anothe thing I don't understand. Maybe it's because I'm not in classes, but an office all day.

But based on the hype I see on the TV ad, mobile phones and text messaging are hot.