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Orange’s Glasto bonanza

Just finished packing the tent for Glasto? Don't forget your 3G moby - Orange has just announced a load of cool 3G music stuff, including a Royksopp video diary, a TV channel and 300,000 tunes to download!

It’s Glastonbury Time. We know this because every conversation is a debate on the merits of Coldplay versus the dance tent, the Stuff office is completely empty and Orange has just announced a load of festival goodies.

Orange’s big coup is that its signed up our favourite Scandie bleepsters, Royksopp, to do a 3G video diary while they’re at Glastonbury. If you’ve got an Orange 3G mobile – such as the rather nice Nokia 6630 – you’ll be able to watch their antics as they get ready to play their sunset slot on the Other Stage.

The other goodies include an upgraded Music Player for handsets, Calling Tunes and a PC-based version of Fireplayer. The big deal with the Music Player is that it now has 300,000 tracks, which is pretty darn impressive. Fireplayer Online, as the name suggests, is an online incarnation of the sample-mixing app that’s also on Orange mobiles; Calling Tunes basically plays hold music to your mates when they phone you. Sounds to us like a guaranteed way to stop your friends from calling you.

Update:

We’ve also just heard that Orange 3G types will be able to watch the stages they can’t get to – Orange is launching a Glastonbury TV channel for the weekend!

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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