Internet Radio: Why aren’t you built in?

Listen to radio stations from all over the world on your mobile phone using GPRS, EDGE or 3G UMTS networks. Constantly new stations are being added and make this application the first universal radio player for mobile phones.

Source: My-Symbian

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) pushes the N Series as a strong multimedia centric device. Wouldn’t it make sense to include an application that would allow you to listen to online radio stations? More importantly wouldn’t it be nice to already have a list of predefined stations in there from the get go?

I know Nokia is working on their own implementation, but hey: hurry up already!

Personally I stopped stealing music thanks to internet radio. There is just so much good stuff out there to listen to, and honestly a song has to be really special for me to want to listen to it more than a few times.

I’m listening to di.fm’s ambient channel as I’m typing this by the way With Internet based radio you’re never limited to the number of mp3’s you can fit in the onboard memory on your device, or a separate flash card.