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Article #111Re: Using mobile phone as an internet radio
From: R. Mark Clayton
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:52
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:52
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"jim stone" <tgh6h56nzh@mail.invalid> wrote in message news:k4flsm$pbt$1@dont-email.me... > Not being able to find a small internet radio to buy we liked, we got > mobile phone with which we link with wi-fi to a modem router, and use it > as an internet radio. > > Keeping the phoned plugged into its charger all the time, we are using it > to play *all-day* background classical music through an amplifier and > speakers. > > Since the phone has no 'moving parts' unlike a computer, we are wondering > if this continuous playing all day of the phone is going to shorten its > working life ? > The bits that will fail [first] in a mobile phone are the battery and display. You can replace the battery and switch off the display. I have two 40+ year old solid state radios that still work.
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From: "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Using mobile phone as an internet radio
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:52:53 +0100
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