SomaFM on Mobile Devices
We are working hard to bring you SomaFM on as many different mobile devices as possible. Here's the latest on what phones we know works with SomaFM:
SomaFM on iPhone
SomaFM streams on iPhones and the iPod Touch, in addition to other 3GPP and Windows Mobile phones. When you go to somafm.com on your iPhone, you get an iPhone-specific site with links to quickly and easily select streams for EDGE (32-56k) or WiFi (128k) streams. EDGE streams should work from just about anywhere, while WiFi streams only work within the range of a WiFi hotspot.
SomaFM on other Mobile Devices
If your have a streaming-capable phone that's not an iPhone, we also have automatic mini-sites for most other cell phones, including Sony, Nokia N series, Samsung, Sanyo and some Motorola phones; as well as most phones running Windows Mobile.
The best quality mobile streams use aacPlus, and that's supported on phones such as the Samsung MM A800, A900, A920, A940; LG Fusic; and Sanyo MM 9000.
There are other phones that will work with our stream, however do not fully support aacPlus and won't sound as good. Most Sony Ericsson phones fall into this category.
SomaFM on Blackberry
We have rolled out limited Blackberry support right now that provides access to our 3GPP streams. We've tested on Blackberry 8330 Pearl so far; other 83xx series with the latest firmware should work (but I'm not sure if other models are working). 8800, 8100 and 8200 series Blackberry phones do not have a built in media player that supports streaming.
If you have a 8300 series phone, go to http://somafm.com in the default Blackberry web browser, and you'll get a special page with our channel stream links on them. If you use another browser, you can try this link: http://somafm.com/soma.xhtml as we're not auto-detecting all Blackberry browsers properly yet.
Palm Devices
For Palm-based smartphones, the under $30 Kinoma player will play our streams. Kinoma also has a version for Windows Mobile, and our aacPlus streams sound better than our 32kb WMA streams. (So while you can use the built-in player to receive our WMA streams, for best quality you'll want the Kinoma player.)
Still not working?
Is your streaming-capable phone not working with our site? We are hoping to support it soon. (Some phones, notably those from Verizon, block third-party broadcasters like SomaFM from their networks; and there isn't anything we can do about that.)
