Not everybody is in the city, see? Some people either live in the country or go there, or spend a lot of time driving on the expressway, going in and out of 3G zones, switching down to EDGE.

What would be nice is a radio streaming app that caches in a clever manner, and is always searching for, and latching onto a strong connection.

I work and live in the city, but I also have a farm. The farm only has EDGE, and not everywhere, either. But I drive to the town 10 miles away from the farm for supplies, and that small town has 3G.

It would be nice if, when I got into a 3G zone, a radio app would discover the 3G, and go ahead and grab up all the radio tracks that it could find for me, on my station(s). Kind of like ‘topping up your gas tank’. Then, when I got back to the farm, it would just drag in radio tracks at the EDGE level, which is a lot slower, but it could simultaneously play the tracks that it downloaded back when I was in town.

I would also like Viigo to work this way – if Viigo had a network sniffer, that sensed 3G, it could auto-download web data when I got to town, and/or when I walked somewhere on the farm where there was some good EDGE connectivity. I have an unlimited data plan, so I want to get my money’s worth.

Here is how it is at my farm – there are about four places in my farmhouse that can get only one or two bars ever, and only if the phone is at a particular angle. To make calls, I stick the phone in the window sill and put it on speakerphone, because if I walk around the room, it will drop the call. Seriously, I looked at the cellular tower map, and the towers are all many miles away – I am lucky to get any cell signal.