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V Cast Music Manager: Delayed Junk

Verizon has been my service provider since my first mobile phone (some eight years ago) and they have been great with coverage and rarely do I ever have dropped calls. Last February, I upgraded to a new phone, Motorola KRZR k1m, and the phone has been great.

The phone is also a music player, but to put music on the phone you need the driver, to get the driver you needed the “V Cast Music Manager”, to get the V Cast Music Manager you need XP (not OSX or Vista). The Vista version was coming though, when I first looked at the chart it said it would becoming out in March. Verizon kept their word and it came out yesterday, July eleventh, that’s three months of delays.

You would think the delays would be to make the application just perfect, but that’s thinking too much of Verizon. The application from start-up is clunky and slow moving even on a couple month old computer. After about fifteen minutes of using the manager, it had already frozen a couple times, disconnected in the middle of syncing music to my phone, and had even frozen my phone. After getting a song on the phone I called it good and decided to see what it sounds like on the phone.

I was able to listen to the song I uploaded to the phone and it sounded great other that it was playing it really slowly. I don’t think the phone can handle songs with more than five or six megabytes. I decide to give it one last try and put a few more songs on the phone, sadly I never got the phone to sync the music.

The driver for the phone came with the software, but isn’t exclusive to it. It also works in Windows Media Player with successful results. Verizon is a great mobile phone provider and a horrible software maker. Just get the driver and delete the V Cast Music Manager, you’ll never think twice.