My main phone is an iPhone. I have an iPad2 and it works great. I did have a Blackberry Storm 2 for work some time ago (it's probably still in a desk drawer here in my office but the office changed to iPhones).
I'm not looking to replace any of those items. I WAS looking to replace my old iPOD (I misplaced it somewhere) that I use for music only during my second life as a weekend musician. I mostly used it to play music between sets. I looked at a 16gb open box iPod nano and they're $125. For another $25, I could get a 16gb open box 4th generation iPod touch and run Spotify which would be great. I've been using my iPhone for between set music with offline playlists I created in Spotify (I have premium) since I don't have every CD in the world or want to download every song I might play once. But, I figured I really neede 32gb if it's to be my main music player for gigs and in the car.... $160 minimum for a used iPod Touch 4th generation 32gb that isn't broken or nasty.
That's when I came across the BB Playbook 64 GB for $129 open box. Tons of memory, I understand I can put all my songs on it directly from iTunes and then I could also use it as a small tablet for other things (including flash based sites I can't access on my iPad2). Plus, it wouldn't be so expensive I'd be afraid to leave it where people could see it at gigs. (Sometimes I also want to use my phone between sets, so using it as my music player on gigs isn't the best solution.)
I've read what I could find on running a Spotify app or player or whatever on a Playbook, but while it looks like they all work through the browser (and, therefore, would require wifi), I want to make sure that there's no way to play Spotify playlists offline on the Playbook. If there's a way to do it, I'm in. If not, I'll have to pass.
Thanks for your help.
08-15-13 12:37 PM
