Turbochargers are installed to make the cars faster, audio equipment to make them louder and neon lights and fancy wheels to make them look hot.
Additional devices and exclusive services that take advantage of this high-speed HSDPA network, such as transmitting full motion video and providing ultra-fast audio, will be available in 2006.
In theory that should result in faster audio and video playback.
While the immediate benefit of cloud-based editing is faster audio processing, the team says they are "looking at a bunch of ways [to] take advantage of all that horsepower to do some things that simply aren't possible when you're mixing your podcast on your computer at home".
The downloads are fast, the audio is of good quality, there is no waiting, and most important, the odds of ending up with a virus that will destroy a teenager's homework folder are next to none.
The Zencoder team has created a very impressive service that offers many improvements over Flix Cloud, including two-pass H.264 encoding, faster queues, audio-only encoding, and support for the new open WebM video format.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, said: "The team has packed an incredible amount of technology and innovation into the new Fire HDX-an incredible HDX display, a powerful quad-core processor, a 70% faster graphics engine, exceptional audio, and faster Wi-Fi-and it's still startlingly light.
Video clips may be fine for those with smartphones and fast networks, but audio will work better for those on less advanced devices or slower connections.
The EM30 also includes high-fidelity audio, fast MP3 downloads, FM radio with Radio Data System technology, 3.5mm stereo headset jack and Windows Media Player 11 compatability.
Mango is a major update which will introduce a number of new features including background audio, fast app switching, multiple and double-side Live Tiles, better Search integration, and hundreds of other features.
Admittedly that sounds less exciting than live streaming video from something like Qik, but since only a privileged handful have this app, which remains unapproved by the App store, Audioboo is the next best thing if you want to do an interview or record audio fast.
