Spotify Premium - One Month Later - A Short Review

One month ago I signed up for a premium Spotify account. At work I use it more or less all the time. The possibility to change to whatever music you like at the moment is GREAT!

The UI need some improvements, but it's quick and the most important things is that the music streaming really works. I can't remember ANY downtime, and not that many records/artists I have searched for have not been found. Please Spotify, add Rammstein records will ya ;) not only their songs in compilations.

Like it, like it alot!

And finally, Spotify!! Please make me a iPhone beta tester ;)

Successfully updated to iPhone 2.02

No major changes what I can see.
Some early reports that the UI is quicker, and that the typing lag is improved.

Let's see about that.

Facts: Jonas Montonen - System Architect

Some Facts About Jonas Montonen

A.k.a: JoNtE
Living: Saltarö, Värmdö, Sweden
Education: Informatics, Umeå University, 1995-1999

Professional Background:
1998 - present : Self employed, JoNtEs System Consulting
2000 - 2001: Consultant, Guide Förädling AB, Stockholm
2001 - 2006: Consultant, Ascade AB, Stockholm
2006 - present: System Architect, CIBER Sweden AB

Technical Skills: 
C#, Oracle PL/SQL, TSQL, SQL, MDX
.Net Framework 1.0 - 3.x, Ruby On Rails, Reporting Services, Team System/Team Foundation Server
Lean/Agile Development, SCRUM, TDest Drive Design

Interests:

Family

Sailing

Outdoor activities

Report: Two Weeks of iPhone 3G Usage

SUPER

Overall experience:
- It just feels FRESH!

Navigation and Zooming:
- Photo browsing
- Safari (web) och Mail zooming

Safari (Webrowser):
- I even leave my laptop at home, used it on the morning bus earlier

Mail Client
- Like it, like it a lot!!

App Store:
More and more applications available and quick and easy to buy/download them. Payment integration with iTunes is really nice.

GOOD

Map (GPS) with directions:
- Awaiting the upcoming(?) update to make it a "real" GPS killer

Phone functionality:
- Easy to use, quick access to common support apps and good enogh sound quality

iPod application:
- ok, except the bluetooth issue, see below

SHOULD BE BETTER

On application at a time:
- One application and iPod or Phone or Safari or Mail only. Most annoying is that your mail is closed when clicking a URL in a HTML mail.

Included headphones:
- Or is it just me that are to comfortable with my in-ear plugs?

Entering long text (mostly mail and URL's):
- Hopefully I will get quicker at this. Guess I didn't enter that much text earlier (SE P1i, SE P800i) since their mail/web clients kinda sucks if you compare ;)

Not that hard to scratch the screen:
- Guess the movies on YouTube is not that accurate after all. Real usage us real usage. In my case, sailing in the Stockholm archipelago with some beach visits.

POOR

Camera:
- My SE P1i kicks iPhone butt if you compare

Lack of bluetooth support in iPod application:
- Only the Phone supports bluetooth at the time. You could force music to bluetooth by starting the iPod after a phonecall is initiated, does that count? ;)